Hard drive woes
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So I have quite a few issues right now, all related to hard drives.
1) I am currently trying to clean up my primary external drive (used for backup/ storing a few movies/anime, about 90GB worth) and I'm for some reason unable to delete some old files. It says I need administrative permission, but I am an Admin and I've tried making myself the owner of the folders to no avail.
2) I actually managed to fill up my 320GB PS3. I'm debating on buying a 320 to 500 GB hard drive and I'll need to reformat it to FAT32. I know that Windows 7 has FatX as an option, but not Fat32. Will this matter? Is there an easy way to reformat an external drive so a PS3 or Xbox can use it?
3) I really, really want to put Windows XP on an external drive or at worst on a 20GB partition on my internal drive. Is the former option doable? Last time I tried to it messed up my internal drive somehow. Don't know if it was a bad copy of XP or what.
1) I am currently trying to clean up my primary external drive (used for backup/ storing a few movies/anime, about 90GB worth) and I'm for some reason unable to delete some old files. It says I need administrative permission, but I am an Admin and I've tried making myself the owner of the folders to no avail.
2) I actually managed to fill up my 320GB PS3. I'm debating on buying a 320 to 500 GB hard drive and I'll need to reformat it to FAT32. I know that Windows 7 has FatX as an option, but not Fat32. Will this matter? Is there an easy way to reformat an external drive so a PS3 or Xbox can use it?
3) I really, really want to put Windows XP on an external drive or at worst on a 20GB partition on my internal drive. Is the former option doable? Last time I tried to it messed up my internal drive somehow. Don't know if it was a bad copy of XP or what.
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Here is an answer for question 2.
Windows 7 only supports Ex-Fat(Fat64) and NTFS for formatting Hard-Disks using the standard methods. It Will do FAT/FAT16 and FAT32 for memory sticks/cards. It is possible using commands in the command prompt but isn't recommended.
If you want to format a HDD for a PS3 it must be in FAT32 format. Mac users have the same issue if they want a HDD to have read and write access on both a PC and Mac. Mac OS can only READ NTFS and not WRITE! The PS3 WILL NOT READ NTFS!I've seen too many people complain that they can't use their PS3 as a media player because they loaded up a NTFS formatted external drive with files and the PS3 won't read it.
Using a 3rd party Program such as Fat32 Formatter (One of many free programs) or Partition Magic (Paid) can do this in Windows 7
OR boot the Computer with a Linux Bootdisk or USB Stick that includes G-parted (Drive Format tool that supports many formats).
P.S. You can use up to a 750GB HDD with no issues, even a faster 7200rpm one! Or even a SSD! Also Sony have instructions available on how to upgrade a ps3 and keep all the data...it involves using a memory stick or hard drive to copy the existing data.
One such Article by CNET
http://www.cnet.com.au/how-to-upgrade-your-playstation-3-hard-drive-339282375.htm
Hope this Helps.
Windows 7 only supports Ex-Fat(Fat64) and NTFS for formatting Hard-Disks using the standard methods. It Will do FAT/FAT16 and FAT32 for memory sticks/cards. It is possible using commands in the command prompt but isn't recommended.
If you want to format a HDD for a PS3 it must be in FAT32 format. Mac users have the same issue if they want a HDD to have read and write access on both a PC and Mac. Mac OS can only READ NTFS and not WRITE! The PS3 WILL NOT READ NTFS!I've seen too many people complain that they can't use their PS3 as a media player because they loaded up a NTFS formatted external drive with files and the PS3 won't read it.
Using a 3rd party Program such as Fat32 Formatter (One of many free programs) or Partition Magic (Paid) can do this in Windows 7
OR boot the Computer with a Linux Bootdisk or USB Stick that includes G-parted (Drive Format tool that supports many formats).
P.S. You can use up to a 750GB HDD with no issues, even a faster 7200rpm one! Or even a SSD! Also Sony have instructions available on how to upgrade a ps3 and keep all the data...it involves using a memory stick or hard drive to copy the existing data.
One such Article by CNET
http://www.cnet.com.au/how-to-upgrade-your-playstation-3-hard-drive-339282375.htm
Hope this Helps.
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That CNET article is awesome, but you reminded me about another issue. I would like to get a copy of linux going as well. I have some old internal drives I planned on using to install linux and XP respectively. Will Linux cooperate if I try and install it on an external drive?
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Tegumi
"im always cute"
You'll need to tell your bootloader how to find your different OS's. For this example, I believe Ubuntu Linux has configured their GRUB installation in a way so as to coexist with a Windows partition in a large variety of situations, and that would likely be your best bet. If you were to use another distro, configuring the Windows bootloader would probably be a better option.