If the drive is listed as NTFS-formatted, you're going to need to format it to something else if you want full compatibility with Mac OS X. If the drive's format comes up as MS-DOS (FAT) or, less likely, ExFAT, you may be able to simply leave the drive as-is and not bother reformatting it.
Your new drive should appear in the left-hand column, and clicking the "Partition" tab will bring up info on the drive which includes its current format. How do you tell which format your brand-new USB drive has? Hook it up to your Mac and launch the Disk Utility app, located in your Utilities folder (which is in Applications). If the drive comes formatted in NTFS, which is the default file system for Windows, you're going to want to re-format the drive because Mac OS X can't write files to NTFS-formatted volumes (at least not without a bunch of extra work that's beyond the scope of this article). The first format, FAT32, is fully compatible with Mac OS X, though with some drawbacks that we'll discuss later. Thanks.The overwhelming majority of USB flash drives you buy are going to come in one of two formats: FAT32 or NTFS. I created one partition of 30gb to see if it would show up, which it did but my problem is that I need more than 30gb to back up my data and EVEN AFTER creating a second partition of 30gb FAT32, only the first partition shoes up. I created a separate partition amounting to roughly 30gb on my hard external hard drive after watching a YT video in which the user said that the PlayStation will only recognize separate amounts of 30gb each. I would like to create a disk to use as much Space of the 500gb as I need after converting to FAT32 but the problem I am running into is that I can only seem to get my PlayStation to recognize about 30gb of space.
I do know that the drive has to be formatted to FAT32 in order for the PlayStation to recognize the storage. I am trying to format a 500gb external hard drive to use in conjunction with my Sony PlayStation 3 console in order to back up my data from the console. I have watched various YT videos prior to reaching out here but am having some difficulties with this. Hopefully this is the right forum to post my question so here goes!
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