Why did I lose memory space when switching formats from NTFS to FAT32?

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Jack V

I recently bought a portable hard drive to play videos on my PS3. In order for the PS3 to read files, the hard drive needed to be formatted as "FAT32". When I reformatted the drive, I found the space went from 596GB down to 96GB. Is this typical? Is there a way I can regain the lost memory capacity?

Answer
I bet you tried to format the drive with windows?

Grab a linux live disc and format the drive as FAT32 from it - you should be able to use the full capacity (minus the slight overhead that is unavoidable with any filesystem).

edit: I've no idea what comstar is on about, I've got a 1tb drive formatted with FAT32 and it's using the full thing. Just never, ever format the thing with windows because windows has a crippled (on purpose) FAT32 library.

Can I move ps3 game saves from one ps3 to another without a usb flash drive?

bryan k

I'm trying to play on my brothers ps3 with saves from my ps3. Is there a way to do this without switching harddrives, using a flash drive, or memory card? Will a cd work? How bout a portable hard drive? If not, anything else?

Answer
you can use a portable hard drive, but it has to be formatted for the ps3, so if you have anything on your hd you should back them up to your computer, move the info from one ps3 to the other and then reformat the hd to your pc and transfer your data back to it from your pc.

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