FAT32 External HDD

Hey i need to back up my Ps3 system on an external HDD but i've heard that you can only make partitions at the size of 32GB when you are formatting it. Is there an external HDD that is FAT32 to begin with or should i just make two partitions and back up my 40gb Ps3?

You can use fat32format to format large drives to FAT32.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/FAT32format.shtml

i have a WD 1TB which is fat32.wah81

The file system really doesn't matter for a NEW drive, because it's quite easy to reformat a new drive with either file system. I'm assuming the OP is already using his drive for PC and it's the wrong file system for PS3. That's the problem I ran into. I already had mine half full with PC data and at that point couldn't reformat it. He is thinking about putting in a FAT32 partition on his open space which also should be possible, but you need to have a little more PC savy to deal with multiple partitions.

My solution was even simpler. I just used a thumb drive and gave it a fresh FAT32 format. I did have to reformat the thumb drive to FAT32 file system as that wasn't the stock format, but it takes about 1 minute to reformat. The entire backup easily fit even though it's only 8GB drive. My guess is the OP could get by with something similar. When you do a system backup really not that much stuff gets copied, because it doesn't copy game data, doesn't copy PSN downloads, doesn't copy demos, and it doesn't even copy every game save (some game saves will be lost)

[QUOTE="wah81"]i have a WD 1TB which is fat32.2Chalupas

The file system really doesn't matter for a NEW drive, because it's quite easy to reformat a new drive with either file system. I'm assuming the OP is already using his drive for PC and it's the wrong file system for PS3. That's the problem I ran into. I already had mine half full with PC data and at that point couldn't reformat it. He is thinking about putting in a FAT32 partition on his open space which also should be possible, but you need to have a little more PC savy to deal with multiple partitions.

My solution was even simpler. I just used a thumb drive and gave it a fresh FAT32 format. I did have to reformat the thumb drive to FAT32 file system as that wasn't the stock format, but it takes about 1 minute to reformat. The entire backup easily fit even though it's only 8GB drive. My guess is the OP could get by with something similar. When you do a system backup really not that much stuff gets copied, because it doesn't copy game data, doesn't copy PSN downloads, doesn't copy demos, and it doesn't even copy every game save (some game saves will be lost)

then what does it copy?

you can format it to FAT32

i used swissknife when i formated my 250gb for my ps3

there are probably other programs out there to do this also

Hey i need to back up my Ps3 system on an external HDD but i've heard that you can only make partitions at the size of 32GB when you are formatting it. Is there an external HDD that is FAT32 to begin with or should i just make two partitions and back up my 40gb Ps3?

Ynnor4009

then what does it copy?

Ynnor4009

[QUOTE="Ynnor4009"]

then what does it copy?

fifamessi

Save files? you mean the Tools to saved data (installation files) or just the game saves?

[QUOTE="fifamessi"][QUOTE="Ynnor4009"]

then what does it copy?

Ynnor4009

Save files? you mean the Tools to saved data (installation files) or just the game saves?

does it also copy your PSN and offline users?