Help formatting external hdd!

[ez345]

thanks for the reply, but still no luck, as soon as I plug in the USB cable it says high speed connection detected, but then says USB not recognized and all the removable media in my computer dissappear. Does the fact that it was pulled from a windows xp computer make a difference, it was an internal drive that i put in an enclosure, prior to removing it was not formatted.

[CJPC]

Mostlikely, Yes. I am assuming that drive is NTFS formatted, eh?

[ez345]

I don't know what its formatted in, I just pulled it directly out of my old computer and put it in an enclosure, Im no computer genius but I thought I could format using device manager but it didn't work. What I don't get is why the my computer can't read it, I had a feeling the PS3 wouldn't but I was really shocked when my computer didn't find it either. If anyone can help please do I am really stuck, plus I don't want to have to buy a new hardrive.

[ez345]

do you have any idea what is wrong, I really need help, I think the reason it is not being seen is because there is Windows on the it, but if anyone has an explanation please tell

Thanks

[kkorn4325]

Did you set the jumpers on the hardrive to master before placing it into the external hard drive case.

[ez345]

Originally Posted by kkorn4325 Did you set the jumpers on the hardrive to master before placing it into the external hard drive case.

How do I set the jumpers to master, sorry I am a noob and have no idea what your talking about.

[robertr728]

i have a question about the external hard drive if i get on and am able to rip iso of a blu ray game onto it with linux will the ps3 be able to reconise the usb hd and then transfer teh iso image to its own hard drive?

also with linux can i buy a usb dvd burner and also mount it to work with the ps3 running ydl?

[Desi]

Originally Posted by robertr728 i have a question about the external hard drive if i get on and am able to rip iso of a blu ray game onto it with linux will the ps3 be able to reconise the usb hd and then transfer teh iso image to its own hard drive? also with linux can i buy a usb dvd burner and also mount it to work with the ps3 running ydl?

Simple answer: Yes for both questions. Although I'm not TOO sure on the usb dvd burner. I've heard it works, But i personally haven't tried it.

Last edited by Desi; 02-20-2007 at 11:07 PM.

[robertr728]

one more question if you would.

when my drive gets here tomorrow what format do i use to format it ? if i use this command in linux mkfs.ext3 /dev/xxx. is this correct?

what i would like to do is have the drive swappable between a windows pc and my ps3 running linux and my ps3 normal is this possible? if not could i make a partition say 10 gigs or so that i format in fat and use that for windows?

my biggest concern is being able to format the drive in the correct format so that the ps3 and the ps3 running linux can acess the drive. if i could get windows to acess it also that would be a bonus.

i hope i havent confused anyone but would like help.


Edit: from what im reading if i download EXT2IFS program for windows this will allow me to see the linux partition in windows correct?

if that is true then i just need to know about the ps3 game what format will it see or reconise?

[Desi]

Originally Posted by robertr728 from what im reading if i download EXT2IFS program for windows this will allow me to see the linux partition in windows correct? if that is true then i just need to know about the ps3 game what format will it see or reconise?

Correct. It's either that or you can try explore2fs. Fairly easy to use, plus it's very simple to transfer files back and forth from your ext3 linux harddrive to a windows harddrive. As far as the ps3 game goes, when you input the dump command, it rips the game as an iso. So obviously, the format you'll see is ISO.

Originally Posted by robertr728 when my drive gets here tomorrow what format do i use to format it ? if i use this command in linux mkfs.ext3 /dev/xxx. is this correct?

Absolutely. But first you may want to double check you're formatting the right drive. how you know your drive is by a simple command: fdisk -l. You'll easily find the drive your looking for.

Originally Posted by robertr728 what i would like to do is have the drive swappable between a windows pc and my ps3 running linux and my ps3 normal is this possible? if not could i make a partition say 10 gigs or so that i format in fat and use that for windows?

Directly getting a linux hard drive to read under windows may not work properly. But Like I said before, you can easily get access to it, by a program called explore2fs. which allows you to transfer files from a linux hdd to a windows hdd.

As far as getting that hdd to have both a linux partition/ps3 os, I can't say really. Because the external drive I use is only for the linux os itself. Never really tried it. It could be possible to swap the harddrive for all 3 partitions (windows, linux, ps3) but my bet would be that windows would only detect the linux partition and not the Ps3 Os partition because of it's encryption.