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Fat32Formatter easily prepares external hard drives for use with your PS3
Setting up a new external hard drive for use with your PlayStation 3 should be a simple task. Maybe, however, when you plugged the drive into your Windows system and attempted to right-click and format it you only had two options: NTFS and exFAT, neither of which plays nice with your PlayStation.
While you could use diskpart to take care of things, not everyone enjoys command-line tinkering. And when there's an easy-to-use alternative like Fat32Formatter -- why bother? Download the sub-200Kb Zip file, extract Fat32Formatter, and fire it up. Select a physical drive from the dropdown menu, click a partition to format, and click the start button when ready. You may also want to check the quick format box -- unless you enjoy watching grass grow or paint dry.
Just in case our less-technical readers didn't see anything out of place in the screenshot, a reminder: C: is not really a drive you want to format.
While you could use diskpart to take care of things, not everyone enjoys command-line tinkering. And when there's an easy-to-use alternative like Fat32Formatter -- why bother? Download the sub-200Kb Zip file, extract Fat32Formatter, and fire it up. Select a physical drive from the dropdown menu, click a partition to format, and click the start button when ready. You may also want to check the quick format box -- unless you enjoy watching grass grow or paint dry.
Just in case our less-technical readers didn't see anything out of place in the screenshot, a reminder: C: is not really a drive you want to format.
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Subscribe to commentsBakuruDec 1st 2010 12:56PM
I want to transfer some movies to my PS3 via an external hard drive but FAT32 only allows files smaller than 4gb on it! Anyway I could transfer it? I cant use wifi or an ethernet cable too btw! Someone help!:(
JitarooDec 2nd 2010 11:47AM
@Bakuru What I usually do is split the movie in to two files so it can fit, but really, the ps3 is not the ideal way to be watching hd movies, you could get a media player that natively plays mkvs from ntfs drives for around $80 nowadays.
Also this post applies to 360 users too, since the 360 only reads FAT32 too.
appsbyaaronDec 1st 2010 12:42PM
I used this just 2 weeks ago. A client had an external 1 TB HDD that he was using to store data between his MAC and a PC. The geniuses at Worst Buy told him it would work...even the box said it would. However it didn't. He spent 6 hours with his tech team at work having then format the HDD in FAT32 but it didn't work. I plugged in my usb drive and had it converted in under 2 minutes using this software. LOL.
USERDec 1st 2010 2:12PM
This App can also format NTSF to FAT32 without the limits.
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pbedrosiDec 26th 2010 12:47PM
@USER
Thanks for the link! Fat32Formatter did not work in 64bit version of Win7
Andy GrattonDec 1st 2010 3:20PM
You could just use FORMAT from the command line, that supports FAT32.
downloadsquadDec 2nd 2010 12:04AM
Thanks a ton for this app.
Since M$ artificially limits Fat32 partitions to 32GB size, I have to drop down to using something like Hiren's Boot CD to format drives in Fat32. Getting a USB drive recognised in Hiren's is another issue with loads of reboots required before I figure out the correct combination of drivers to enable the USB controller in DOS.
This should save me tons of time. Bookmarking.