Can I connect one hard drive to another newer PC, even if the PC is 5 years older?
My friend just bought a new computer and was wondering if he can plug in his old hard drive to his new computer and transfer some files to a USB Flash Drive, and plug in back his new hard drive. His Old computer just died on him so I was wondering if the hard drive would be compatible.
How do I format a PS3 hard drive?
There was one forum which dealt with this problem. From: How to reformat PS3 hard drive :Pull out your hard drive from your PS3Connect the hard drive to your PCDo a FULL format, not a quick one (a quick format just formats the boot section and root directory of the hard drive, and not the data on the hard drive. We want the hard drive blanked out). Make sure to do it in FAT32 (if you can). To format the HDD you'll need to go to Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management. This has an older windows feel to it, but on the left hand side you'll see Storage, under that (you may have to click and expand it) you'll see Disk Management. Click on that, in the middle window will come up the hard drives. You should see it there (It'll likely have a series of letters, followed by numbers). You may not be able to format it into FAT32 format with it being such a large disk drive (windows doesn't like giving you any non-MS file format for large disks). But doing a NTFS format should work. There are a few programs that will allow you to format it into FAT32 if you can't with that program.Put the hard drive back in the PS3 (be ready with a USB thumbdrive with the system software on it, follow this link to learn how to set it up).Hopefully, your PS3 will boot up, and prompt you to install the software on to the hard driveTime to download all your stuff again (hoepfully you haven't purchased any movies, as you can't redownload them). Then, back to gamingHope this helped ;)
How to format a WD portable hard drive to read as a USB drive?
Hi, here are the instructions that should help : ) Using Acronis True Image WD Edition for Windows Note: Acronis True Image WD Edition can format any capacity internal or external single drive unit. Please see the following article on how to format a drive to FAT32 using Acronis True Image WD Edition: Answer ID 3744: How to partition and format a WD drive using Acronis True Image WD Edition. Using the FAT32 Formatter for older WD drives Western Digital has a Windows based utility that will reformat a Western Digital external USB or FireWire hard drive back to the factory default FAT32 partition. When run, this utility can only create a single FAT32 partition for the full capacity of the hard drive. Please follow the directions below to download and use the Western Digital FAT32 formatting utility. Important Note: The FAT32 formatter software is only for older external single drive units and can only format a drive that is 1TB and below. It will not work on an external drive that is greater than 1TB in size. It also may not work on models released after 2007. 1. Download the FAT32 formatting utility (select your product from the list first). 2. Double-click on the file named ExtFat32.msi and follow the onscreen prompts to install this program onto the computer. You may need to uncompress the file first using some type of uncompression or unzipping utility. 3. Check the box labeled I accept this License Agreement and click Next. 4. Select the hard drive that is to be formatted and click on Start. Important: All data on the target hard drive will be erased during this process. Please remove or backup any valuable data before performing this step. 5. You will then get a popup message warning you that formatting will erase all the data on the drive. Click on Ok to continue. 6. The final popup will warn you again that this will erase all the data on the drive. If you want to continue, click on Yes.
How do I format my external hard drive as it is not showing on my PC?
Look in your device manager and see if the drive is being detected first . If it is you may need to format it . FAT 32 is outdated and slow but is a standard format type most any OS can read from . Is your external hard drive a usb drive ? It could need a setting changed in the BIOS to pick it up . Some PCs are shipped to not detect a USB hard drive as a boot device . If it is still not showing up in the device manager it could be faulty , try another known device like a USB stick to see if that gets detected . It could be in the PC that there is a fault . There are a ton of possibilities on why without further investigation to tell you the exact reason why . The drive could be protected , it could be faulty , the pc needs setting adjusted , it could be a bad or missing driver , the USB port might not be providing enough power to run the device ( eventhough a flash USB stick runs normal a hard drive and some SSDs need more power that a flash drive ) , and so on .
Is there a way to make PS3 a 2TB INTERNAL hard drive?
I currently have 2 playstations in my home, and I have BOTH using a 1TB internal each (yes, yes... I'm using a 3.5 1TB hard drive with a male to female SATA cable and independent power). When I put a 1.5TB or 2TB hard drive, my ps3 will format the HD, but after formating, I press the X button to restart, and the screen just stays black. I tried the default option of pressing the power button untill i hear the 3 beeps, but no option helps... I cant believe this so-called machine of the future is not programed to handle 2TB. Oh yeah before I get a newb answer... External 2TB suck because I already have about 223 bluray movies (103 in first and 120 in the other one) and I don't want to cut @ 4GB each movie specially if SOME movies run @ 16GB-19GB each.
Why is my external hard drive not showing up in my computer?
Answering to give another option of what MAY be the problem.As you stated the hard drive isn’t showing up in “my computer”, I’m taking this as you mean within the “folder” My Computer (or simply Computer for newer versions of Windows), it may need to be formatted and drive letter assigned. This is a problem I run into every blue moon and after about 15-minutes of fidgeting around I figure out this simple problem.Open the start-menu, and right-click on “My Computer” (or “Computer” for newer operating systems), then select “Manage”. Once the Computer Manager window opens, on the left side panel, expand “Storage” and you should see “Disk Management”, select it. Within the main window you should see all your drives on display: OS (C:), CD/DVD (D:), and so on. Look for a volume that defines your external hard drive but doesn’t have the parenthesis around a single letter. This is likely your new external hard drive.Right-click the volume, then select “Change Device Letter and Paths”. In the next window click “Add…”. And in the next window click the radio button for “Assign the following drive letter”, then in the drop-down to the right, select a letter for the drive. Once done, click OK and back in the main Computer Management window, the volume should now read “Volume_Name_here (F:)”, where “F” is the letter you’ve assigned to the hard drive. The external hard drive should now show up in My Computer (Computer).Again, not saying any of the existing answers wrong, but giving another potential answer due to the lack of details given. Change, add, or remove a drive letter - Windows Help
Can i format my ps3 hard drive using a computer or laptop?
You need to remove the hard drive from the PS3 and plug it into your computer. Then format it as a regular hard drive. When finished, plug the hard drive back to your PS3 and it should work.
How do I convert my old PS3 hard drive to an external hard drive for my PC?
The magic words are “hard disk enclosure 2.5 inch”. I’m guessing about the 2.5 inch part since I don’t have a PS3. If the drive is in fact a 3.5 inch drive, well they make those too. I have had a lot of trouble with the 2.5 inch enclosures, but I am now convinced that my problem was the flaky USB 3.0 ports that I was plugging them into. Windows seems generally to have a problem with USB 3.0. Sometimes my disks show up, sometimes they don’t.I have discovered that a sure-fire way to bring back a ghost drive is to power down completely, and I mean really completely. Modern PCS never quite power down all the way. They need to be half awake so they can power up after a LAN event, or if they get something from the mouse or keyboard. I have started to turn my UPS off for a few seconds. Another way to do this is to throw the switch on the power supply if the computer has one and you can get to it without moving furniture. Or unplug at the wall if there is no other way to get that little LED on the motherboard to finally turn off. End of Rant.Here is a link to one of the many enclosures that they sell on Amazon: Inateck 2.5 Inch USB 3.0 Hard Drive Disk Enclosure/ Case for 9.5mm 7mm 2.5 Inch SATA I/II/III/HDD/SSD, Support UASP and Optimized For SSD, Tool-FreeOf course Newegg sells these things too. I haven’t used this exact enclosure but I have used a slightly different Inateck enclosure which worked fine. I have also used Orico and Sabrent. They work fine if the port that you plug them into works.You don’t specifically say that you have USB 3.0. Be warned that USB 2.0 can not supply enough power for a drive, so USB 2.0 enclosures should have an external power block, or a two-headed cable that draws extra power from a second port. Don’t buy a USB 3.0 enclosure and expect to run it on a USB 2.0 port. Buy what you actually need. If the enclosure is described as a USB 2.0 device, the kit will include a solution to the power problem.Update: It occurs to me to wonder how old your drive is. Is it an SATA drive? My first experience with a hard disk enclosure was with a hard disk pulled from a dead laptop so old that the drive was the old parallel IDE type drive. This means that the data and power connectors were totally different from current hard drives. So again: buy what you really need. It might be hard to find an enclosure today for the PATA drives. But if you have a PATA drive be clear that an SATA enclosure won’t work.
What would happen if you took the hard drive out of a PC that was turned on?
Well, as long as the cables are intact, you’re just dandy. The powered drive will still be spinning, and it’ll feel like a gyroscope in your hand, the spin resisting your handling of it. Pretty cool, but not recommended for prolonged experiments if there’s something important on that drive.If you suddenly disconnect the data or power cable, and that’s your system drive, the PC crashes pretty fast. Not necessarily instantly. The operating system keeps lots of data in memory, both reading and writing, and file system drivers are tolerant of drive errors to an extent — so after the drive is done, the system will still be trying to hit that drive. Within a minute or so, expect a full system crash.The danger of this is primarily that any data being written to the drive could be corrupted. Not the best plan, though if you’re using a modern file system with journaling, you may lose a little data, but you probably won’t corrupt the drive itself. Probably.If it’s a secondary drive and you’re not using it, your PC will probably protest quite a bit about a drive being removed without you dismounting/ejecting it. But it may not cause any problem.In some cases, the drive is intended to be removed while powered. The SATA power and data connectors are designed to be safe for plug/unplug under power. So are USB, Firewire, Thunderbolt, and eSATA. So electrically, you’re pretty safe these days pulling a drive out. I have a couple of PCs around here with SATA drive bays that in fact encourage their removal under power… as long as they’re unmounted, of course. Same with USB… I have a RAID on USB 3, and as long as I “eject” it before unplugging, no problems.Some operating systems are smart enough to fully flush a drive that’s not actively being used, so it can be pulled at nearly any moment without risk. However, there’s always the chance that something is going to be written to any drive just as you’re pulling it. That’s the main risk of removing an active drive.
My PS3 wont recognize my WD 1tb Passport and i already formatted it to FAT32?
Hi, so not to long ago i bought a new external hard drive WD 1tb Passport. i connected it to my ps3 and it wont show up on the ps3. the hard drive light is not on, but i feel the hard drive working when i touch it. Many people say is because i have to format it to FAT32, which i already did and still not working. I renamed the video to "VIDEO" with capital like some say and still nothing. and i am getting tired of this i was hoping that maybe some one knows how to deal with this dilemma. My hard drive has no problem connecting to my pc and laptop. I hope somebody knows how to fix this ^^