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trying to use a freeagent portable on a playstation 3 (ps3)

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‎04-10-2009 06:38 PM - edited ‎04-10-2009 06:46 PM

 Serial Number: 2GE1EWI2
Model Number: ST905003FGA2E1-RK

 

i have looked at alot of info on this issue, both here in the seagate community and others and still am not sure what i should do...

 

i would like to use my 500gb seagate portable as a external hard drive to store movies, etc... on my PS3. when i first pluged it in the ps3 did not reconize the drive at all. i do know about the whole "hard drive has to be formated to FAT32" but i just dont know to how to go about doing this... i did see one way of going through the command prompte and another going through the "seagate disk-manager"

 

1.can anybody give me a step by step on how to do this and the best way in wich i will still be able to use all 500gb or so?

 

2.what size is the HD in side the case?

 

3.is it a 2.5?

 

4.even thought the warrenty would be shot could i dismantle the case and use the HD in my ps3 since it takes a 2.5in seagate HD?

 

please i need a strate forward insite on what i should do...

 

thank you for you help

 

jason

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‎04-13-2009 07:14 AM

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=193643&NewLang=en

 

discwiz can make fat32 partitions of any size

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‎04-13-2009 12:13 PM

ok after some investigating i did find that the seagate disk wiz did the trick. i hope that this post will find helpfull to others. i was able to use all 500gb (or 458gb after formating) it turns out the disk wiz was vary easy to use once you took a real good look around.

 

thank for the help

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