External Drive what format?

**reno55** · 10-09-2010,09:46 AM

If I am going to be using an external drive to boot games from backup manager what format does the drive have to be in? I have a mac so im just not sure what to format it as

**ndesent** · 10-09-2010,09:51 AM

fat32

**reno55** · 10-09-2010,10:00 AM

Ok but doesnt fat32 only allow 4gb files at the most?

**ryuhosuke** · 10-09-2010,10:02 AM

yes

**Muffy** · 10-09-2010,10:08 AM

games with files over 4gig need to be played via internal drive. You can split the files and transfer from your external to internal and they will be rebuilt by open manager if split and named correctly.

**reno55** · 10-09-2010,01:38 PM

Muffy can you point me to a simple guide/tutorial that shows how to achieve that?

**KainUK** · 10-09-2010,04:29 PM

Just install Open Manager.

It does it automatically for you if you copy from Internal HDD (hdd0) to External... or if you rip from your BD-ROM to your external HDD.

**Sylpher** · 10-09-2010,05:44 PM

There's a nice, neat program which splits the files for you called Open Split. http://psx-scene.com/forums/f178/ope...manager-67611/
That's the link for it. Also ensure that your HDD is FAT32 (not exFAT). If your HDD is bigger than 32GB (or something around that), Windows 7 (at least from my experience) will only give you an option of exFAT and NTFS - unfortunately neither will work with the PS3.

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