PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[Tommy_Rockstar]

am need to format it to FAT32 but all i get when i click on it is exFAT is that the same or do i need to download something?

Am on Vista to

[Tommy_Rockstar]

BUMP

[frazer369]

Hope you get some answears lol, i need them, i'm getteng an external HDD soon, hope i dont have as many problems as people are getting with this sort of thing.

[fizzyfunk]

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Tommy_Rockstar wrote:

am need to format it to FAT32 but all i get when i click on it is exFAT is that the same or do i need to download something?

Am on Vista to

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/c5545765-da9b-41e4-8fd2-f1f83f9a61401033.mspx

hope this helps 

[naking]

My advice is to not use Vista to format your disk !

There are lots of boot CDs available that do disk management (some legal, some not quite so legal).   the ultimatebootcd has good support forums, and will format a disk easy enough. 

[fizzyfunk]

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naking wrote:

My advice is to not use Vista to format your disk !

There are lots of boot CDs available that do disk management (some legal, some not quite so legal).   the ultimatebootcd has good support forums, and will format a disk easy enough. 

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lol. glad i stuck with XP in that case!

[Tommy_Rockstar]

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fizzyfunk wrote:

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Tommy_Rockstar wrote:

am need to format it to FAT32 but all i get when i click on it is exFAT is that the same or do i need to download something?

Am on Vista to

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/c5545765-da9b-41e4-8fd2-f1f83f9a61401033.mspx

hope this helps 

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tried it but it just comes up with exFAT

[fizzyfunk]

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Tommy_Rockstar wrote:

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fizzyfunk wrote:

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Tommy_Rockstar wrote:

am need to format it to FAT32 but all i get when i click on it is exFAT is that the same or do i need to download something?

Am on Vista to

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/c5545765-da9b-41e4-8fd2-f1f83f9a61401033.mspx

hope this helps 

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tried it but it just comes up with exFAT

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that's odd, i'd say go with what naking said ^

[Chimpanzee]

Give this a go:

Click start

Type cmd and hit enter

Type "format E /fs: fat32 " (without the quotes)

Hit enter

REMEMBER TO CHANGE "E" TO WHATEVER THE DRIVE LETTER IS ON YOUR USB DRIVE!!!

(oh and I can't remember if it's a / or a \ before fs so try both if one doesn't work. 

Message Edited by Chimpanzee on 04-06-2008 10:42 AM

[tonedus]

i used a little program called fat32format, that did the trick for me on my 350gig external.*