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Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by BrenUK

BrenUK — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:58:09 +0000

Can I use this method to store and play DLC games from PSN also? As I have the old 40Gb PS3 and don’t have any room for DLC.

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by me

me — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:17:56 +0000

i got a 76gb ps3. i have buyed many dlc and game packs. but my ps3 hard drive is full. so i wonder if it is possible to download and install the game packs and dlc’s on my external harddrive. it is 500gb and is fat32. or do i need to buy a bigger hard drive for my ps3. please help

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by shh its a secret

shh its a secret — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:32:50 +0000

i have a 500gb external hard drive. i wonder if it is possible to save the game packs i have for cod black ops on it instead of the ps3 hard drive? because it is full and i dont eanna buy a new hard drive for my ps3 and i dont wanna uninstall and install the dlc i want to use each time? i got 3 of them but only got space for 2 of them. please help!

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by Jez23

Jez23 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:54:25 +0000

I have just upgraded my original 60gb backwards compatible UK spec PS3. Total success, almost.
Backed up data to 64gb USB pen drive (fat32), synced trophies to PSN.
Replaced original Seagate 60gb hdd with 500GB Western Digital WD5000BUDT AV, 2.5″, 9.5 mm, SATA 3Gb/s, 5400rpm, 32MB Cache.
Turned on system, formatted a couple of times. then system booted up.
Transferred data from USB, sync trophies, success.
Check hdd space total 465gb/382gb available.
I transferred 30gb of data where is the other 50gb (I know 500gb = 465gb)
Anybody any suggestions?
p.s. firmware 3.70

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by testjack

testjack — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:39:25 +0000

I have a WD My Book Essentials 2T HD. When I plug it into the USB port on my PS3/160 it doesn’t even power on. Can any one help? Thanx

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by nick

nick — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:01:30 +0000

Hi i have one of the original 40g PS3s i decided to upgrade to a 320g. On doing this all i get is a message saying major error contact sony technical !!! i have tried everything nothing works. i have tried it in my bros 60g & a guy at works 40g it works fine in both of them so the hard drive is fine.
Now the only difference we can see is:
1) My hardrive goes straight into the PS3 to connect (rather than pushing towards the back of the PS3 like the 60g & my friends 40g)
2) There original hardrives are hitachi & mine is a fujitsu.

My new hard drive is 320g (MDT) Magnetic Data Technologies
any help would be great as im ready to pull out what hair i have left

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by telfish1

telfish1 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:54:02 +0000

Hi have just replaced my 40Gb hard drive with a 160Gb. I had to update software to format hard
drive. everything works ok but I backed my old hard drive to a flash stick (64Gb) FAT32 (25.3Gb on back up)
when I try to restore info the ps3 tell me there is no backed up files on flash.
Has anyone had this problem? any answers? I backed up twice to no avail. The only option I can see is to borrow a ps3 and
transfer info via eternet cable any ideas?

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by pj

pj — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:03:54 +0000

ok so i formatted my hd with my mac and my ps3 reads it and everything but when i go to copy data ie: music and saved game data the copying screen comes up and everything but it stays at 0%, and wont copy on to the hd. can someone please help????????????????????

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by George

George — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:06:18 +0000

Need help. I formatted my external HD so that I could back up my files for getting a new internal HD for the PS3.
I know that it’s formatted properly because after I did the FAT32 I put some files onto the drive that previously could not be read
by the system until after I did the format change. I started the back up and it appeared to be doing the work properly; however,
with a few minutes left to go in the process, it gave a message saying that “the usb device cannot be accessed.” I unhooked the
external and hooked it up to my PC–it does show archived files that were copied onto it today but I’m in fear now of attempting
to put the new drive in because of this message displaying (thinking that it truly may not have copied all my files as a back up) and
then losing everything I have on the drive. Anyone know about this or can advise before I try to go any further with the change???

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by Chiwala Chandu

Chiwala Chandu — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:59:27 +0000

PS3 in Caps or not

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by Aric

Aric — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:08:10 +0000

I have a tb or 1000gb external harddrive formatted in Fat32. i already converted it because i use to use it on my xbox… but of course microsoft can’t get things right n i get the bad red ring.. i recently bought a PS3, but when i plug in my external harddrive, it doesn’t come up… why is this? it is an hp HDD 1TB external harddrive… please help!

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by ben

ben — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:39:19 +0000

will this work with downloadable content such as the dragon age 2 dlc cause my playstation is mainly filled with dlc and game saves

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by Blake

Blake — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:09:24 +0000

Can any one tell me how to do this with apple

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by adam allardyce

adam allardyce — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:26:34 +0000

i have a 2.5″ 640gig hdd that is the correct dimensions for the ps3
but when i fit it in the ps3 says it needs a new update. i currently
have op sys 3.65 on my ps3 and when i try to install this version
on the new larger hdd (select and start) it keeps telling me data
is corrupt, i cant figure out how it can be corrupt as i am using the
same external hdd and op sys update that i used to update my ps3.
I have tried downloading the update again and put it on an external
hd and also on a usb pen drive but nothing seems to work it still
says data is corrupt wether i use the external hdd or the pen drive
i even burnt 3.65 to a cd and that didnt work either
do i have to wait for op sys 3.66 to come out before my ps3 will
upgrade??
update to 3.65

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by bigg_k

bigg_k — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:07:37 +0000

hey been reading what people hav sed to do this and most dont work
i gt hitachi 2tb hard drive
here is what does work
download aomei partition assistant home edition 3.0 which is free
then when the program is running your external hard drive should be listed under disk 2
right click on your external hard drive and select format
choose the option you want – for ps3 FAT32 and select ok
then on the top left a green tick will appear called apply and select that and then it should do
then insert folders onto your external hard drive using your pc and call them
picture, music, video and game in caps and you will b all done
gud luk hope it helps
did for me

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by josh56040

josh56040 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:30:46 +0000

I have a 250gb ps3 slim and i want to upgrade the hdd to 2tb, can i?

I want my ps3 to have the most space i can & still have it b really fast)

I want to know if this would effect my download time for updates and installs and stuff like that. If i can not use this one, please tell me the hdd that you think would be best to you in my ps3 (or any) (with a link to ur suggested hdd)

Here is a link to the one that i was thinking of useing….

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate+-+Barracuda+2TB+Internal+Serial+ATA+Hard+Drive+for+Desktops/9419382.p?id=1218102739460&skuId=9419382&st=hdd&contract_desc=null

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by jacobs799

jacobs799 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:32:12 +0000

u can use swissarmyknife program for larger gb’s i got a 500 gb for mine i just formated it to fat and it worked

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by alicat

alicat — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:40:49 +0000

hi i tried to back up my ps3 and it keeps saying the back up operation could not be completed (8001002A) witch meens that the my external hdd is not conected propporly but no matter how mutch i try it says the same thing can any body help

Comment on How to add an External USB hard drive to the PS3 by Logan

Logan — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:19:56 +0000

Windows XP formatted my 2terabyte WD external to 356Gb FAT32 and I can’t recover the lost space, any suggestions?

Comment on How to upgrade your PS3 internal hard drive by Andy

Andy — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:07:43 +0000

Hi could someone please help as I am ripping my hair out… I have bought and installed a wd scorpio blue 500gb sata 8mb internal hard drive. Upon starting up my ps3 i get the following:

No applicable data was found Connect storage media that contains update data of version 3.55 or later, press start and select buttons at same time.

I have download to memory stick latest version from sony website even tried reformating memeory stick to FAT32. Nothing works please could someone help as I was led to believe this was suppose to be easy…. Thanks