How To Get The Most Out Of Your Playstation 3 (PS3) Part 2 – Adding External Storage

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Playstation 3 (PS3)

Part 1 – File Sharing with Windows Media Player 11

Part 3 – How To Upgrade Your PS3’s Hard Drive

The Playstation 3 is available with several different hard drive sizes, but quite often you may want or need a bigger one. You can replace the internal hard drive using a standard laptop hard drive, but this tends to be expensive. An easier and cheaper method is to add an external hard drive to your Playstation.

1. Connect the hard drive to your computer using a USB cord.
2. Check what the drives  "File System" type is by going to Start, Computer, Right click on the USB drive, and select Properties.
3. The file system type must be "FAT32" in order for the Playstation 3 to recognize it. If it is a different format please read this article explain how to format a large USB drive.  
4. Once you have confirmed the file format you need to create a folder system identical to that on the Playstation 3.
5. Please create four folders labelled "Picture" (not Photo), "Music", "Video" and "Game".
6. Load all the music you want into your music folder, all the video you want into your video folder, and all the photos you want into your picture folder. Your game folder should still be empty.
7. Disconnect the hard drive by clicking the green arrow in the icon list and the bottom right hand corner of the screen and select "Safely remove…"
8. Once your computer tells you "XXX drive can now be safely removed", unplug the hard drive from your computer.
9. Connect the hard drive to your Playstation 3 and use the extra space to save information and access all your extra content saved on your external hard drive.

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