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Adding an External Hard Drive to a PS3

The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) comes with an internal hard drive, but you can add an external hard drive to help increase your storage capacity. The PS3 can only read the FAT32 file system from external drives, so your external hard drive must be formatted into this system. Once connected, you can save movies, music, photos and even game data to the new hard drive.

Things You'll Need

Computer

Instructions

- 1
  Connect the external hard drive to your computer and click the "Start" button. Right-click "Computer" and click "Manage." Click "Disk Management." You will see a list of available hard drives on your computer.
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  Right-click your external hard drive and click "Format" from the menu that appears. Click the "File System" button and click "FAT32." Click "Start" and the external hard drive will be formatted into the FAT32 file system.
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  Safely disconnect the external hard drive from your computer after the formatting process completes. Turn your PS3 on and wait for it to load into its operating system.
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  Connect the external hard drive to one of the open USB ports on the front of the PS3. Wait as the PS3 reads the new drive. You can now access the drive from each of the individual game, music and video sections of the PS3 menu.

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