External Hard Drive help?

[B-Felt]

Nope, EASEUS didn't even work. It's some kind of hidden backup/security software that ****s with accessibility. Even when I format it, it says there's about 500MB taken up with "System." And it's all hidden. Ah, well. Can anyone recommend a decently priced one (this one I got on sale for $70) that will work?

[Quakes69]

Nope, EASEUS didn't even work. It's some kind of hidden backup/security software that ****s with accessibility. Even when I format it, it says there's about 500MB taken up with "System." And it's all hidden. Ah, well. Can anyone recommend a decently priced one (this one I got on sale for $70) that will work?

F-Disk will see it. I've ran into some of these when Redoing computers.

There's 2 partitions.

One is used for a Backup of a system - HIDDEN - Resulting in your 500MB
Two is used for the system - VISIBLE

Some companies do this soo an end user CAN'T F-ck up there Restore partition

If you're daring and wish to fix it. Get A comp/laptop rip out the drives insert that one and boot up in Win98 floppy bootdisk and run fDisk.

[ps3playa]

there's plenty of 1TB ones for $80-$110, depending on brand and such. I use a seagate 1TB FreeAgent for entertainment media, for $110. and a LaCie 750GB one as well for all my backups, which I picked up for $20 from a friend who was moving out of country

[zear]

I doubt it, I have a 1TB Western Digital Elements which is listed as "Local Drive" when plugged into my PC too, and it shows up fine on my PS3 (NOTE: My PS3 is still on 3.15).

Hi all, I have a similar problem. Except the drive (an OCZ 30gigs SSD) worked OK when I used USB jailbreak on 3.41. But now that I've upgraded to 3.55 kmeaw it's really flaky (works 1 on 10 times whatever the manager)

Same as KILLorBE, my drive does not appear as removable but as a local hardrive on PC.

Do you think it's firmware or manager related ?

Thanks for any clue

[F1N]

See here: http://psx-scene.com/forums/f177/ps3...nal-hdd-72107/ (Ps3 Slim Won't Recognize Wd Usb 3.0 External HDD)

My WD Passport USB 3.0 wasn't recognised, I used a USB powered hub as jzr mentioned and now my ps3 recognises it. I used EASEUS to format to FAT32 Primary.

BTW what 500MB partition is there? When I do Manage on Computer icon I have 1 partition of 465.73GB (Maybe I deleted the other partition?).

[Meomyo]

I have the exact same drive as the original poster and used this to format it

Fat32Formatter

It may help you