USB hard drive question

Kaotac · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:00 pm�� Post subject: USB hard drive question

I just got myself a PS3 and I have a USB hard drive with MP3s and YouTube type movies on it. I thought it would be as easy as plugging the drive into a USB port to be able to listen to the music or watch the movies, but it seems that it doesn't see the drive or something..
Am I missing something here, or is the only way to see those files on the PS3 to burn them to a DVD?
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Zhou · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:05 pm�� Post subject:

Either that or chuck it onto a usb.

Hard drives need to be in fat32 to be recognized by the ps3.
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Kaotac · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:08 pm�� Post subject:

Aah. That would explain it. It's NTFS.
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Kaotac · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:43 pm�� Post subject:

I should have figured that out when my HDD stopped working with my 360 after I formatted it. Oops.
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BurnZ · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:43 pm�� Post subject:

Also, video files have to be in a folder named VIDEO in the root directory and MP3s in a folder named MUSIC.
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Kaotac · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:56 pm�� Post subject:

Okay, thanks.
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Kaotac · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:14 pm�� Post subject:

jesuslol · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:01 pm�� Post subject:

I was having problems using my thumb drive to watch tv shows/movies etc.

The trick to it is before you choose the drive in the XMB, press triangle and choose Display All. This will show the entire drive, including all folders, files, and whatever other crazy contraptions in there.

Kaotac · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:42 am�� Post subject:

Good to know! I just reformated my drive into FAT32 and now I'm copying all the files back over.. Says it will take 10 hours... I might have too many videos

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Island_Wolf · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:57 pm�� Post subject:

^FAT32 is an old file system that only supports file with a size upto 4GB minus 1byte so for use of today, it is quite outdated, hence the needs for an improvement to file systems. Windows 7 supports NTFS, just like Vista and XP.
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mikezilla2 · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:10 pm�� Post subject:

i thought it was 25gb or well erm im srue iv had big fat32 drives , bit confusing but from what id read in the past ntfs was regraded as 25+ network storage space - no longer true as i couldnt live with out ntfs - its also much more stable then fat.
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Island_Wolf · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:15 pm�� Post subject:

Oops, I meant you can't have a file with a size larger than 4GB minus 1byte.

There is no "limits" to how big you want your FAT32 partition to be, it was just enforced by the MS OS since you really shouldn't be having a huge FAT32 partition because it will fragment more wildly than NTFS and makes it very slow. FAT32 however is still used a lot today, especially in portable drives since NTFS is a MS thing and many OS supports FAT32 like Linux and Mac OSX.
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brendentaylor · Status: Offline Joined: 18 Nov 2009 Posts: 3 $poons: 0.00

I have a Pioneer 7000bt with USB and a WD 320gb portable drive. I have tried every type of music format(wav,mp3 etc.) I have an external power supply and my drive lights up but the head unit always says that there is no audio. What am I doing wrong? Any help on how to make this work would be greatly appreciated.

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BurnZ · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:55 pm�� Post subject:

Are they in a folder called music? If not, do that or:

Benc82 · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:11 pm�� Post subject:

donovan515 · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:19 pm�� Post subject:

I would love my PS3 so much more if it supported NTFS and .mkvs.

For those with portable HDDs, I'll have most of in NTFS for big files and partition a small bit for FAT32 or just use a USB flash drive for movies/music/photos.
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Chrono Blue · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:13 pm�� Post subject:

Any chance a future firmware will add support for NTFS?
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BurnZ · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:40 pm�� Post subject:

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