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Post by Johawn on Dec 1, 2009 7:02:55 GMT -5
Just a quickie:
Is it possible/advisable to create multiple partitions on an external hard drive. Reason being, I had this broken 150GB hard drive kicking around, and yesterday I thought I'd try and fix it. It had been formatted but not partitioned, so it wouldn't show up when you plugged it in. So my little brother threw it out and I salvaged and and just used disk manager to allocate a new volume.
Anyways, I want to use it for my PS3, which needs FAT format, as opposed to NTFS. Which is fine, except FAT only supports 32GB of space, so I had to create a small partition and chuck what I want on there. But there's 120GB just going to waste. I'm only going to use it for my PS3, and I've no idea if it would like, mess up what's already on there, or if the PS3'll recognise multiple partitions. Anyone have any experience? Thanks will be given in poster paints and naan bread.
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Post by The Enforcer on Dec 1, 2009 8:35:18 GMT -5
Yes, it is possible to create multiple partitions on an external hard drive. I have two partitions set up on my 1TB Hard Drive for my Wii. (One is used for media files, the other is used for games.) I don't see any reason why the multiple partitions won't be recognized on the PS3.
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Post by Bam Neeley on Dec 1, 2009 8:44:05 GMT -5
The maximium size for a FAT32 partition is way over 32gb. It's just that modern Windows' won't let you format such partitions.
Anyway partitioning external drive isn't any different from partitioning a regular one. I'd make the PS3 readable partition the first one just in case.
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Post by Johawn on Dec 1, 2009 9:20:52 GMT -5
Lovely, cheers guys. I just had a hard time thinking that it'd work. Something about it seems a bit...unnatural. Will it just see it as two seperate hard drives?
Also, how can you make a bigger FAT32 partition? That'd just save me a whole boat of hassle.
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Post by Bam Neeley on Dec 1, 2009 9:44:37 GMT -5
Lovely, cheers guys. I just had a hard time thinking that it'd work. Something about it seems a bit...unnatural. Will it just see it as two seperate hard drives? Also, how can you make a bigger FAT32 partition? That'd just save me a whole boat of hassle. I think this could work: www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htmTake notice that FAT32 has maximium file size of 4GB which might be a problem if you're planning on putting HD video or DVD rips into it.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Dec 1, 2009 10:50:06 GMT -5
Lovely, cheers guys. I just had a hard time thinking that it'd work. Something about it seems a bit...unnatural. Will it just see it as two seperate hard drives? Yes, they'll show up as two separate drives. You can create as many as you want... although having 5 partitions for 150 GB might be cumbersome.
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Post by Johawn on Dec 1, 2009 11:36:55 GMT -5
And thank you again I'll have a bit of a tinker and see how I get on with it. Great help. Pinatas and Johnny Stamboli action figures for all!
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