Hey people, I was going to format my external hard drive to FAT32 so that I would be able to use it with the ps3, but I just found out that FAT32 drives have a 4GB file limit, meaning you cannot put any files over 4GB on the hard drive, without compressing it or making it smaller some other way. That really sucks because I am always putting 10-20 GB files on my hard drive, and a lot of times movies are even bigger than 4GB! So I was wondering if there was a way to make the ps3 read NTFS hard drives also. Or if you can't do that do you know if you could make that 4GB limit go away? Because without that I'm set.
1.) If you have a phat PS3 and put Linux onto it, the Linux partition will be able to read NTFS-formatted drives. Natively, though, the PS3 OS can't. 2.) There's no way to make it go away, but you can manage it with some crafty file splitting and/or video management. BD movies, for instance, can be remuxed into an AVCHD folder with individual filesizes less than 4GB, which can then be played on a PS3. (My Transformers 2 BD is around 40GB in size, and I ripped the entire main movie to AVCHD with filesizes smaller than 4GB, placed that on my PS3, and there's no issues whatsoever with playback.)
i dont know how much of a use this will be to you but, if you use magic partition or partition program, you can make the fat32 size larger than its limitation of 32 gb? well at least i think the limit is definitely smaller than 100gb. With the partition program , you can have it over 100 gb.
I don't think the partition size is the issue here. I just formated a 650 GB hard drive creating one single large partition, FAT32, with no problem at all.
that weird because under window xp i can not get it to be any larger 100 32 they even have a tutorial for it http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/mods/USB Hard Drive Mod.htm
You are right, is not possible under windows, need a third party application. I used a free utilitu, fat32formatter.
Okay, so I'm a little confused. Can I or can I not make the limit bigger/go away? Another thing I should have mentioned is that I am trying format my drive on windows 7, and it didn't actually say FAT32, but it said exfat. What's that?
So I was wondering if: Code: there was a way to make the ps3 read NTFS hard drives also. NO. ... Or if you can't do that do you know if you Code: could make that 4GB limit go away? NO.That's a FAT32 limitation. Also,In Windows, you cannot format a partition larger than 32GB.What 4g63evo was saying, you can overcome that by using a third party software. Here's some free ones: http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=38041 http://hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool.software.informer.com/
If you can't overcome these limitations, you could try streaming the videos from your computer to your PS3 over a network.
Yeah, that's what I've been doing using Tversity. But I just wanted to try actually using the hard drive directly with the ps3. Oh well, it's not a big deal. Thanks for the help guys.
hey, we are all lazy have you tried hand break or ps3 video 9? its really useful .. i dont know if you two have ever come across action reply max for the ps2? would be cool if 3rd party or even 2nd make a program like action replay max that support ntfs
For DVDs, I usualy just convert the main video and audio streams into a MPEG file using videoredoPlus. This does not hurt video or audio quality at all (other than alternate audio tracks such as dirrector commentary and foreign languages; these are lost). Most files are over 4GB, but I just use Apache HTTP server to transfer them to the PS3 hard drive. That way, you don't need to use a computer and a PS3 to watch a movie that you could simply watch on the PC. The PS3 internal hard drive does not seem to have any file size limit, and you can easily install a hard drive of 2TB or more.
