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I have been formating my 1.5 terabyte external HD on Fat32 so I can use with my PS3. Can you believe it is taking more than 20 hours already? So long time....
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Does Fat32 even support drives that big?
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i guess he will find out in 20 hrs
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Not that big, i forgot that windows does not accept hd bigger than 1 gb if I am not mistaken. You can partition using CMD prompt command. If you use windows the you cannot format hd bigger than 32 GB. There are other options using other programs though.
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Windows will do just fine with >1TB hard drives--as long as they're formatted NTFS and using a reasonably modern version of Windows.
EDIT: Ah, I see that FAT32 will also go up to 2 TB. Go fig.
Last edited by kcarlile; 07/13/10 03:19 AM.
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I am using swissknife what accepts bigger drives. The thing is that PS3 only reads Fat32 hard drives. If I am not mistaken.
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OK, good you're using Swissknife. The cmd format command will also fail at the 32 GB mark. But if you're not doing a quick format it'll take hours before it stops with an error. My biggest FAT32 drive is 500 GB. You've got a new record.
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Assuming it ever finishes.
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I just found out a better program. People usually complaint about the swissknife coz it crashes sometimes, I just used EASEUS partition manager and finished formating in 1 minute the 1.5 terabyte and the external HD is already in use on my ps3.
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Nice! I think the only limitation for FAT32 is that any 1 particular file can not be greater than 4GB. You just have to be careful when encoding movies.
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