Help formatting external hdd!

[Rayzor]

Originally Posted by 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.

I often see "USB not recognize" with memory keys and usb drives etc. Try plugging it into a different USB port on your PC. Unplug your USB KB/MS if you have to.

[robertr728]

i see now why i must format to ext3. because fat 32 has a file size limit?am i correct? i left the drive with its fat 32 format and was able to mount it and rip full auto 2 to exthdd. but sonic would not go it says file size exceeded this is why i need ext3 right?

what i ment about having it formatted correctly is with it being formatted to ext3 when i exit linux on my ps3 and go back to the regular xmb. will i be able to see my exthdd or will the ps3 xmb not know what the format is. if you understand what im talking about. or is ftp the only way to transfer the game iso that i made to the ps3 hard drive for the xmb to see it?

[robertr728]

fat 32 has a 4 gig limit on uts file sizes this wont work with 20+ gig movies.thus you need ext3 or ntfs. but ps3 cannot see ntfs in linux untill you do the udf2.5 kernal upgrade listed here in the forums.

[robertr728]

the way i understand it is you have udf 2.5 kernal upgrade installed then you dont need ext3 you can format to ntfs with a windows xp pc and should be able to maount the drive in linux on your ps3.

[robertr728]

did you make the directory exthdd before you tryed to mount it there? also i assume you know that the xxx in your command should be your drive info. see cjpc post from this thread but back a page or 2.

Connect your USB device

type : fdisk -l

should show "/dev/sdc1 40gb" (or something along those lines), find the one that matches your drive.

then do a mkdir /mnt/exthdd
then a mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/exthdd

(where /dev/sdc1 = your hdd), then your DD is -> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/mnt/exthdd/game.iso

The issue is, the HDD must be formatted EXT3, NTFS write = dont work by default, and FAT32 = too small! i see in your cammand that you forgot the / before dev command.

Last edited by robertr728; 02-26-2007 at 09:48 PM.

[squareeyes]

I get as far as formatting/mounting the drive but when I type this:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/mnt/sdf1/bd.img

i get

bash: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/mnt/sdf1/bd.img: no such file or directory

anyone got any ideas? thanks

[robertr728]

squareeyes read the post a few above here. the command your giving is to dump a image not mount a drive. start at my post copyed from hacked2123 post and read it and do it as it says.

make the directory
mount the drive
dump the disk image


and remember sdc1 in that post is for example you need to use fdisk -l to find out what letter your external hard drive is.

[Radiskull]

Great proggy to use on the PC side to format your HDD to EXT3 is Acronis True Image Home v10.0.

Screenshot attached, just go to Manage Hard Disks and format to whatever filesystem you'd like.

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