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31. October 2008 @ 11:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Okay I know this has been asked to death and I'm sure I'll get a few "ever heard of Google?" replies but I am still having an impossible time trying to reformat my original PS3 hard drive. I know the PS3 uses it's own type of foramtting that PC's for some reason cannot recognize when placed in an enclosure.

I have tried SWISSKNIFE, plugging the drive into a mac book, a G5, and various XP or VISTA systems. Still I cannot get the drive to even be recognized. I go through BIOS and DOS and still nothing.

Has anybody found a way to get the drive recognized so I you can reformat it and have it of some actual use?

I find it hard to beleive no one has been able to do this. Everytime a firmware is upgraded on anything it takes all of an hour for someone to hack it. LOL.

Anyway thanks for any help.
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