Comments 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.

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

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!

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

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????????????????????

By: Chiwala Chandu

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

PS3 in Caps or not

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!

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

By: Blake

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

Can any one tell me how to do this with apple

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

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?

By: James London

James London — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:24:55 +0000

Just use a mac to format…simple. So long as you have one handy.

By: Kobra9747

Kobra9747 — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:18:34 +0000

ok basicly i did exactly what it told me to do and now my 1T Samsung external disc is fucked just saying thanks alot

By: rhys

rhys — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:41:48 +0000

i did everything and now my pc cant recognise my portable hd and have no idea how to get it to work again

By: PAUL TOBIN

PAUL TOBIN — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:14:48 +0000

I Have Just Used Fat32 Formatter to format my 2TB HDD and it worked fine may want to try this

By: HELOE

HELOE — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:29:28 +0000

Hey i have a hitachi 1tb external hard drive and it is already formatted to fat32 ! but when i plug it into my ps3 it doesn’t appear as in the entire hard drive…it doesnt appear anywhere on my ps3 HELP?!

By: vidyasaagar

vidyasaagar — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:43:53 +0000

80g bportable drive

By: intense21

intense21 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:35:35 +0000

I used EASUS partition manager TO format the entire portable drive 1 TB to fat 32 I decided later to split it into and it also resized it for me. For it to work on PS3 it must be FAT 32 not eXFAT32 or NTFS. Swiss knife didn’t work for me.

By: jason

jason — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:54:12 +0000

i just bought black armor 160gb hard drive..i’ve put some flicks on it and want to watch them on my ps3…how do i do this if i have to put in the password before black armor opens up its files/unlock the hard drive..can it be formatted any way like a gig stick/flash drive

By: Bear

Bear — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:07:28 +0000

I have seen on different sites that you have to name the file “picture” not “photo” but I am not sure about this. (Not sure if you have already mentioned this before though?).