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1.5 terabyte HD format!
#314373 07/13/10 01:59 AM
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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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Ichigo_Kurosaki #314380 07/13/10 02:22 AM
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Does Fat32 even support drives that big?


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Ken.C #314383 07/13/10 02:25 AM
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i guess he will find out in 20 hrs laugh

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dakkon #314392 07/13/10 03:12 AM
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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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Ichigo_Kurosaki #314396 07/13/10 03:18 AM
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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.

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Ken.C #314398 07/13/10 03:22 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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Ichigo_Kurosaki #314410 07/13/10 03:54 AM
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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. smile


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ClubNeon #314416 07/13/10 04:18 AM
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Assuming it ever finishes. wink


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Ken.C #314418 07/13/10 04:28 AM
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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. smile


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Ichigo_Kurosaki #314447 07/13/10 10:33 AM
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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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