A buddy of mine is having issues with installing a new hdd in his PS3. He said he formatted it to FAT32 on his winXP machine and then put it in the PS3. He said the PS3 won't recognize the drive. Any particular steps he gotta take to get it to work?
I think you need to put the disk into an external first and format it with the PS3, but I could be wrong, I never replaced the drive on one.
if the disc isn't formatted in FAT32 prior to putting it into the PS3, the PS3 won't recognize it in order to perform it's "formatting" option thing.
if the disc isn't formatted in FAT32 prior to putting it into the PS3, the PS3 won't recognize it in order to perform it's "formatting" option thing.
Huh?
When I upgraded mine, I just popped in the unformatted bare drive.
The only thing you need formatted FAT32 before-hand is a USB HDD, if you want to use one to back up your existing system (and then restore from that after the HDD upgrade).
I remember reading somewhere a while back that 1TB HDDs were too large physically (height) by a mm or so to fit inside a PS3. Was that article bs or did something change recently? I couldn't find the specific article I read, but these are similar.
Huh?
When I upgraded mine, I just popped in the unformatted bare drive.
The only thing you need formatted FAT32 before-hand is a USB HDD, if you want to use one to back up your existing system (and then restore from that after the HDD upgrade).
on my PS3 I had to have it formatted to FAT32 ... not sure if it is a launch PS3 thing or not, cause I was formatting a launch PS3.
yeah im pretty sure his is a launch fat ps3
all I did was pop in my new unformatted drive and the playstation took care of the rest.
after backing up my data of course
were you on a launch 60gb ps3?
yes. rip now my slim doesnt want to read discs - reads dvds just not bds.
I didn't try a tb though, I think it was ~250gb
all I did was pop in my new unformatted drive and the playstation took care of the rest.
after backing up my data of course