West Digital and PS3 problem

I have West Digital my passport 2 TB external hard drive. I’m trying to connect it to PS3 but PS3 won’t recognize it. I googled this problem, it says PS3 only recognize FAT32, so I tried to format the hard drive to FAT32 but I couldn’t because there is only 2 options: NTFS or exFAT so I downloaded a program to convert it to FAT32 but for some reason the size got reduced to 32GB!! so I connected to PS3 (now with FAT32), the PS3 recognized it but it didn’t play any videos nor I can access anything in it.
Does anybody know how to solve this problem? I returned the file type to the original type NTFS with the original size 2TB. How can I make PS3 recognize it and play the movies inside the drive.
thanks
Answer #1
try EASUS Partition Manager its free and for some reason Windows doesnt like to make large ext hdd’s into fat32 but this program will do it easily for you
http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3001-2248_4-10863346.html?spi=1c58a8aa614081b39c5e55ef8500da72
Answer #2
In order to convert the drive to FAT32 from NTFS you will need to format the drive first. No software can do this without formatting first unfortunately. 1. Copy data to another disk/pc you have.
2. Download the program above in the post above^^^
3. Format as FAT32.
4. Copy all your Data back from your PC/Other hard disk (Be warned that the biggest files that can be copied to a FAT32 drive is 4gb I think, so if you have files bigger than this don’t think they will copy back over)
Hope this helps!
Answer #3
All of this is true but by default the largest disk size that can be formatted to Fat32 is 32GB by the windows format tool (hey it’s in the name). That’s a limitation of the tool, if you wish to format drives to fat32 that are larger than 32GB in size you need to look for alternatives to the windows format tool. Partition managers or even the disk management tools in windows can be “confusing” for non-experienced people. i’ve had that same format size problem a while back when i wanted to hook up an external drive to my blu-ray player. Then i found this little tool (and i do mean little. It’s less then 100kb in size but it does what you’ll need it to do. Format that 2TB drive into fat32
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.htm
How it works is simple. Open it up, select the drive, allocation size unit (sector size, by default 4bk aka 4096). Then just hit “start”. All done. Freshly fat32 formatted 2TB drive
This tool does not alter what Shifty said however about the maximum FILE size. Although you now have a 2TB fat32 drive, the file size restriction is still 4GB per file MAXIMUM