I have a WD My Book essential an I tried to connect into my ps3 and i think i need to download a different format for my ps3 please help me thank you.

You must format the drive as FAT32

Note that your drive is too big to be formatted as a single 2TB FAT32 partition, its basically too big for PS3 usage.

but I think we should be able to get it to work.

You need to create one big partition off the drive, you can do that by connecting the drive first to your computer and then, right click on my computer or computer and select manage. Then on the right side of the computer management window you need to click on Disk management.

On the right side you need to find your 2TB externall hard drive, delete all the partitions from it so that its entirely free space or unpartitioned space, then create a new volume, full size of the drive, do not format it, if it doesn't let you pass without formatting then make sure its on quick format and fat32.

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First, make sure that your PS3's firmware is up to date. You can do this by connecting it to the internet and setting it to update. Otherwise you will have to download the update, burn it to CD and then run the CD when powering on your PS3. Some updates can & will completely wipe-out\erase you saves, settings, downloads, & etc. Check out this web-page by Sony: ps3.com. Is your external hard drive formatted in FAT32? That is the only file format that the PS3 will recognize. Most likely, your hard drive is formatted in NTFS; which better supports large storage devices and you can use longer file names with it. I believe it is possible to format your hard drive in FAT32 (when attached to a computer), but the cluster size has to be set to a certain setting. I would suggest partitioning your hard drive into several partitions or drives, and then format those partitions in FAT32. Or just format part of it in FAT32 and the rest of it in NTFS. The PS3 should then recognize the partitions that are in FAT32. Please give feedback as to if this was helpful or not and choose a rating on how helpful you believe this information was.

Assuming PS3 works with FAT32, format the hard drive using the WD's FAT 32 formatter. Call WD and they will direct you to the correct download location for your hard drive.

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Thanks

you can call WD and get the correct link for the WD FAT32 tool. Run that tool and format your hard drive with FAT32 partition.

files must be "imported" into your new mail program.
the new computer may have a newer or different version.

• First off, the WD hard drive was meant to be connected to a computer.
• Therefore connect it to the fastest computer you have or the one running the network.
• Make that drive a network drive.
• Set the router to handle DHCP using the web based interface (192.168.1.1 on a linksys router, check your manual for the IP address belkin)
• The drive apparently has three volumes on it: X: Y: and Z: (network drives)
• I would backup the WD drive and reformat in NTFS format
• I dont believe that these drives were meant to be networked. Therefore you get what you get....

Good Luck
Jeff

Hi I have the Essential Edition WD My Book 1TB/To, it was working well and then for no reason my computer does not recognise that it is connecte, now I can't access this drive was the g/ drive. Any clue as to what I should do?

Thanks

If you format your drive as FAT32 Mac should also see it.

So AFTER you formatted it on the PS3 you were able to connect it to your PC and view files? If so, sounds like the drive has gone bad.

If you don't care about what's on the drive, I'd reformat it. If that works, I'd no longer trust it for files I care about.