I know that you can format a portable hard drive to FAT32 without that annoying 4gb file limit, i have done it but i have forgotten how or my old method dose not work anymore. i used to use a program called "HP USB Disk format tool" and it did work for a time then all of a sudden i can no longer put a file more than 4gb on my HD ive have tried again and it dosnt work. lol i sshould tell you why i want it like this is because NTFS format is not supported by my Ps3 System only FAT32 is and i cant put larger video files on it to watch most of which are HD video files. if anyone knows how to format a portable HD to fat32 without the 4gb file limit i would much appreciate the information thanks.
Formating a portable HD to FAT32 with no 4gb file limit?
HitmanAgent47 may be able to help more than me here, however as I know it the FAT32 file system cannot be made to go over the 4gb file limit. You may have confused it for ExFAT, another type which only works on more recent Windows systems. I doubt that will work on the PS3.
There is a hard limit on FAT32. Logically, the file system simply doesn't allow files larger than 3.9 GB. My assumption is that its addressing mechanism simply doesn't allow for more data to be stored as a single logically contiguous element.
yes im sure the drive wasnt formatted to NTFS because it worked on my playstation." hmm, would be interesting to hear how. AFAIK 4gb is a hard limit and always has been. Are you sure the drive wasn't formatted to NTFS? Try asking on tested forums. "
@ShiftyMagician: HP USB disck format toll, may have been formated to that eFAT thing but im not sure that worked on Ps3
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