PS3 Get External Drive to work

[disco1977]

I have 1tb WD external, made two partitions as fat32, ps3 will only read one partition? How can I get the other partition to be accessible so I can use both partitions on the ps3?

[RoofingGuy]

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disco1977 wrote:

How can I get the other partition to be accessible so I can use both partitions on the ps3?

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As far as I can see, you simply can't.  I can find tons of posts over at Sony, with other folks asking the same question.  Nobody has ever seemed to have gotten it to work with any size or brand of external drive, that I can find.  Just one partition recognized.

But just because I can't find anyone posting that they got it to work, or how to do it, isn't conclusive.  Your best bet is to ask Sony's tech support how to do it.  They'd be the ones to know how their system works.

[mercergarret]

Hey there. All I have is an ACER AspireOne netbook (not sure if Partition Magic 8.0 will work on it) and Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Silver). I also have a ps3 slim 120 gb. I'm out of space, and I definitely want to get some stuff onto my hard drive. Any ideas?

[Sibaya]

Hi I have a WD 1tb my book that worked fine on my old ps3 and would not conenct to the ps3 slim; drive would not spin up or show as a device on the PS3 etc. Answer was to put it through a hub, a simple unpowered 4 port hub worked fine for me