If you're like me and bought your ps3 in the long long ago then you're also probably running out of space on your Harddrive. Time to put a new one in, and WOW, did i have a lot of trouble doing this, well, not with 'changing the HDD' but with trying to backup the data on my ps3. As you may/may not know, the ps3 only reads HDD's with fat32 format, and you can only format a 32gb partition of fat32 before it wants to change it to 'exfat' format, and i had 56gb of data and no way to back it up.
Noobs on forums are all like 'just format it to fat32' but hello deuchebag, you can't. window's won't allow it. I did a bunch of google searches like this: ps3 wont read my hdd exfat, not enough room on fat32 to backup my ps3 data, can ps3 read exfat with an update, programs that create fat32 partition windows 7, what hdd can i use to backup my ps3, ect ect
It took me 3 hours to sort it all out, so, i shall now share with you the fruits of my labour.
Firstly, backup your data, how to do it (^_^?) I used a 300gb external HD that i bought on ebay years ago, some cheap chinese no-brand kinda deal, i plugged it into my computer and did this.
