21/07 -12: External USB hard drive with NTSC and FAT32 for PS3 use
Category: Hardis ja softa
Posted by: Shrike
This is almost stupid (especially since I'm under the influence of beer and red wine), but I just spent way too long looking for this info, so here goes.
The setup: I had a external 1,5TB USB hard drive, which was formatted to NTSC and I needed some space off that in FAT32. Since Partition Magic is no more (fuck you Symantec), I was in a bit of an jam, regarding getting this done under Windows 7.
What I did was this:
1. Plugged the damn disk in to my Win7 machine and typed diskmgmt.msc to the "Search programs and files"
2. With that I shrunk the existing NTSC partition by 102 400 megabytes , thus leaving 100GB worth of unassigned space
3. Clicked previously made unassigned space and quick formatted it to NTSC (not exFAT, yeah right, skip that shit)
4. After numerous attempts at googling the shit out of internet, I found FAT 32 Formatter (or fat32format for command line action), which is awesome! AWESOME I TELL YOU! As it does only one thing. Guess what it does?
5. Downloaded it and launched it (no install required, how's that for a change?!)
6. Trotted over to the recently created NTSC partition (conveniently named PS3), clicked it, as well as Quick Format and hit Go! (or Start)
7. I was done
Now I could back up my way too small PS3 HDD (without losing the stuff I had on the NTSC side of that USB thing) and could switch it for a larger HDD.
Oh Bliss! Now. Back to Dust 514!
The setup: I had a external 1,5TB USB hard drive, which was formatted to NTSC and I needed some space off that in FAT32. Since Partition Magic is no more (fuck you Symantec), I was in a bit of an jam, regarding getting this done under Windows 7.
What I did was this:
1. Plugged the damn disk in to my Win7 machine and typed diskmgmt.msc to the "Search programs and files"
2. With that I shrunk the existing NTSC partition by 102 400 megabytes , thus leaving 100GB worth of unassigned space
3. Clicked previously made unassigned space and quick formatted it to NTSC (not exFAT, yeah right, skip that shit)
4. After numerous attempts at googling the shit out of internet, I found FAT 32 Formatter (or fat32format for command line action), which is awesome! AWESOME I TELL YOU! As it does only one thing. Guess what it does?
5. Downloaded it and launched it (no install required, how's that for a change?!)
6. Trotted over to the recently created NTSC partition (conveniently named PS3), clicked it, as well as Quick Format and hit Go! (or Start)
7. I was done
Now I could back up my way too small PS3 HDD (without losing the stuff I had on the NTSC side of that USB thing) and could switch it for a larger HDD.
Oh Bliss! Now. Back to Dust 514!
