FAT32 Format in Windows 7

Posted by Troy on August 22, 2010 under Microsoft, Sony, Windows 7 | Be the First to Comment

I was trying to backup some videos on my Sony PS3 the other day so I grabbed one of my old 80 GB hard drives.  Of course the Sony PS3 didn’t recognize the NTFS file system, it needs to be FAT32.  Simple enough, I thought, I’ll just backup the old files and format the drive as FAT32.

If you right click on the drive you and click Format there are two options

  • NTFS
  • exFat

But there was no FAT32 option.

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This was a job for Disk Manager not the simple format tool.   Click Start and search for “Computer Management”.  Then select the Device Manager.

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Click on the drive you want to format and delete the old Volume. Make sure you have selected the correct drive.

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Right-click on the disk to create a new volume.   This will take you through a wizard that will allow you to select FAT32 to format the drive.  The volume must be less than or equal to 32,768 MB.

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Once I formatted the drive FAT32 the Sony PS3 recognized the device an I could backup the files.

If you want to get around the 32 GB limitation you could format the drive using Linux or a Linux Live CD like Knoppix.

Troy

GTA IV (PS3) – Game Loading Problem

Posted by Troy on May 3, 2008 under Sony | Be the First to Comment

Well I finally went out and bought Grand Theft Auto IV for the PS3. Of course I was excited to starting playing the game on a Friday night while enjoying a couple of refreshing Heinekens. Unfortunately I ended up spending about an hour trying to get the game to work.

The game booted up fine and installed over 3 GB of data to the hard drive. Then there was a black screen with words Loading New Game….. . And that was it. I tried rebooting the system, and deleting and re-installing GTA IV but no luck.

I finally disconnected my internet connection and the game started working. Of course this is okay for single player gaming but in not much of a solution multi-player. According to the post below this issue does not effect 60 PS3 machines. The article also explains how to disconnect your internet settings:

http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=389388

This is the only technical issue I have experienced so far but I have only been playing for a couple of hours. Now I can focus on more important things like my GTA driving skills.

Troy

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