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500GB USB Drive format
14-05-2014 9:42 PM
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Windows 7 won't do it as it insists on NTFS.
I currently have it attached to a Linux Mint laptop and trying a FAT format.
The drive will be put into service as a PS3 backup destination.
Any suggestions please?
To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: 500GB USB Drive format
14-05-2014 9:44 PM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
Re: 500GB USB Drive format
14-05-2014 9:54 PM
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Re: 500GB USB Drive format
14-05-2014 10:05 PM
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You can create 2 partitions on the usb hard drive. make the first 32 Gb and format to fat 32 and use the rest of the disk as another partition in ntfs
Re: 500GB USB Drive format
14-05-2014 11:58 PM
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I'll see what tomorrow brings.
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Re: 500GB USB Drive format
15-05-2014 6:52 AM
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Quote from: Strat I have a 500GB USB hard drive I need to format FAT32.
[...]
I currently have it attached to a Linux Mint laptop and trying a FAT format.
[...]
Any suggestions please?
# mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/sdX1
Where X is whatever your disk appears as (sdb, sdc, or whatever)
That's what I use for formatting USB sticks with FAT32
Re: 500GB USB Drive format
16-05-2014 6:39 AM
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Re: 500GB USB Drive format
16-05-2014 12:20 PM
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Re: 500GB USB Drive format
20-05-2014 2:08 PM
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I have successfully formatted the USB drive to FAT32.
The PS3 backup procedure starts and announces that it will take approximately 2 hours and 59 minutes.
It then fails with an error code which varies.
The current one is 80010006 (problem accessing a file).
I had another go with a better quality USB cable and received this error code...800283E1 which Sony have no search result for.
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Re: 500GB USB Drive format
20-05-2014 3:05 PM
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I dimly recall a backup issue long ago where removing the ethernet cable afforded a solution.....crazy.
2 hours 50 minutes to go....
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