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

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   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.        Connect the hard drive to your computer using a USB cord.       Check what the drives 
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. Connect the hard drive to your computer using a USB cord. Check what the drives  “File System” type is by going to Start, Computer, Right click on the USB drive, and select Properties. 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.    Once you have confirmed the file format you need to create a folder system identical to that on the Playstation 3. Please create four folders labelled “Picture” (not Photo), “Music”, “Video” and “Game”. 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. 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…” Once your computer tells you “XXX drive can now be safely removed”, unplug the hard drive from your computer. 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.   Tips Alternatively to the “prebuilt” folder system, you can press triangle on your hard drive and click “Display All”, but you still need to select Video to see video files. Folder system works as follows – Dir/files* or Dir/folder/files – example: Video/files* or Video/Home Movies/files* – Dir/folder/folder/files doesn’t work without “Display All” explained above – example: Video/TV Shows/Simpson’s/files* You can copy files to and from HDD & PS3 but you cannot edit files/folders on the HDD from the PS3 – you must copy to PS3 or do it from your computer. If you lay your Playstation horizontally, do not place the external hard drive on the right side where the exhaust fans are aimed. The air coming out of the Playstation is very hot and will cause your external hard drive to malfunction. DO NOT PLAY WITH YOUR PS3 VERTICALLY! IT WILL SLOWLY RUIN THE LASER READER AND WILL NO LONGER RECOGNIZE ANY DISCS YOU PUT INSIDE…
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  1. I have bought a IOMEGA Screenplay Director 2TB, but PS3 do not identify this in the network, where as my other notebooks identifies ScreePlay in network. Any help?

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