PS3 HDD upgrade help

[Troy711]

Hello fellow nerds,

I'm attempting a HDD upgrade on my PS3 (fat) and I'm stuck at the backup stage. I need to format an external HDD to FAT32 but have NFI how to do it and the programs I have downloaded to do it don't work. If anyone has done this can you give me some advice. All the usual FAQs are hardly helping me.

Cheers.

 

[drift-it]

How to Format External Hard Drive to FAT32 in Windows

im pretty sure this is the website a mate used to do his...dont hold me on it though! lol

 

[one_and_only2004]

I used swissknife to do my external hd, then installed a 320gb hd out of a dead laptop my friend owned and the ps3 did the rest

 

[wraith]

I used swissknife to do my external hd, then installed a 320gb hd out of a dead laptop my friend owned and the ps3 did the rest

Swiss knife is good I used it as well.

 

[Troy711]

Is there some sort of technique to get Swissknife to work? All it does when it installs is pops up in the top corner like it's unpacking the files and then disappears.

 

[wraith]

Will be installed on the hard drive so it will either be in start menu or look in your C drive under program files for it. Been a while since I played with it.

 

[Troy711]

Nope, not in Progam Files or the Start menu. Like I said, it unpacks the files and disappears... as if it aborted the install or something.

Obviously I'm having a formatting issue... what if I just buy a 32Gb flash drive, format that through the command prompt and give that a go..?

 

[wraith]

If your running Windows 7 right click on the file and click run as administrator. Could be trying to do something and Windows is saying no.

 

[one_and_only2004]

Alternatively, run a virtual windows ME and format it through that!!!

 

[Troy711]

Nah, using Vista. All the admin control crap is switched off.