Adding A Portable Hard Drive with my PS3?

Rocker

I have a portable hard drive full of pictures and home movies I wanted to play on my PS3. My PS3 is not recognising my hard drive. I use the same USB cord that came with the hard drive and no response.

Can anyone tell me another way to make my PS3 work with my portable hard drive?

Answer
If the hard drive is shown (i.e there is an icon for it in the XMB), but there are no contents it is because the PS3 expects things to be in specific directories. Just press the triangle and select show all.

If you do not see the hard drive, it is likely not formatted to FAT32, which the PS3 requires. Most larger size drives now come pre-formated to NTFS. There is usually a utility to convert them available from the manufacturers website, but it will wipe the data so make sure you back it up.

How could I make my ps3 detect my portable hard drive?

rosas_jess

I have an 80gb seagate portable hard drive and works with usb 2.0, but my ps3 80gb wont detect it..it will only detect my small ipod and my psp..any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer
You may have to press triangle more then once depending on the hard drives file structure

Simply take a jump drive, external hard drive, etcâ¦hook it up to the USB port on the front and then you--

Goto to view under music, or video, or photos, scroll down to the drive you've hooked up hover over it then push Triangle(notX) then select display all (view all)(press X) and it will show everything on the jump drive or external harddrive. Then either listen to or view the music, video, photos or copy to the ps3 hard drive directly.

If you have a psp you can also use that to move files from pc to ps3.

http://atomsfamily.net/playstation_3_solutions.html

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