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NJLowbrow

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15. May 2011 @ 12:28

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My son had a Gen 1 PS3 that we upgraded the hard drive on and the unit ended up dying. He recently purchased a new PS3 and put the upgraded hard drive in it and the unit will not work. It's saying that we need to update the firmware, so I've downloaded it on to a portable drive under a file titled PS3 and sub folder titled UPDATE. When we run the new PS3 it isn't finding the folder to update the unit.

Any ideas what we're doing wrong?

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Bawango

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15. May 2011 @ 12:39

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Is the portable drive formatted to FAT32? This may be why its not detecting it.

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NJLowbrow

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15. May 2011 @ 13:17

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Originally posted by Bawango:
Is the portable drive formatted to FAT32? This may be why its not detecting it.

I'm note sure. How can I tell? It's currently loaded with a bunch of music files on it. If I format it to FAT32 will that screw up the other files?

Thanks

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Bawango

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15. May 2011 @ 13:59

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Originally posted by NJLowbrow:

Originally posted by Bawango:
Is the portable drive formatted to FAT32? This may be why its not detecting it.
I'm note sure. How can I tell? It's currently loaded with a bunch of music files on it. If I format it to FAT32 will that screw up the other files?

Thanks

-Go in to your PC
-Open "My Computer" and leave that screen up. You will notice on "My Computer" you will have drives IE OS(C:) and possibly a few more if you have an external HDD hooked up like I do. For instance my external HDD is says Local Disc(F:).The reason I ask you to leave the "My Computer" screen up is when you insert the storage device your using, it will appear as a drive that was not there before. Once you figure out which drive the external device is, Right click on it and from the box you need to select "Properties".
Another box should pop up with information. You should see under "Type:" it should say "Local Disc" and right beneath it is "File System" and beside it it should indicate "FAT32" or "NTFS". If it says "NTFS" you need to format it to "FAT32". You do this by exiting the box you currently have open. You need to again right click on the device drive and this time you need to select "Format...". From here a box shoul again pop up and you should be able to tell it that you want to format it to FAT32.
Before you format, you may want to copy the file folder system you have on you external storage device onto your Desktop so you it saves you from having to have to re-download the OFW and re-create the folders. Once you have external storage device formatted, just copy what you had in back.

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NJLowbrow

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15. May 2011 @ 22:27

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Thanks for the help - I think that we've got it squared away.

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