
Just get a hard drive formatted as FAT32 and you can plug it into a Mac, get your files and plug it into a PC. I needed both the Mac and a PC to get the job done. In summary: I was never ab e to get the PC to read from a Mac format HFS drive.

I have transferred all my music, pics, etc to my external drive from the mac and i was able to access and USE those same files on my girl's PC (which is Windows 8 btw). I now have 1 TB of Fat32!! So it was well worth the wait. So I got a used 12GB Superslim PS3 and have no idea which mounting bracket works with it since the official one is not available anymore. The format of the external hard drive took 30 hours. it doesn't even install anything on your computer. How can i transfer my files from mac to PC? I borrowed my girlfriend's PC and I searched the net and I was able to download a program called Fat32Formatter. repaired my MacBook Pro which I am using right now. Jack the drive into your ps3 and either browse to “photo” “video” or “music” menu’s and you’ll be able to play the files (if the file type is supported).So the Paragon software was a waste of $20 bucks and it resolved nothing. Add the files in the correct folder, let it copy, right-click the drive and choose “unmount”.ġ0. Go to the disk (in ubuntu it should open up by itself) and add the following folders.ĩ. If it’s finished, unplug the external hdd/flash drive and plug it back in.Ĩ. Sylvain - OK, but my first point still stands. In fact, game are allowed to use the HDD as a cache (on PS3 and Xbox 360), and many of them do this.

PS3 has been planned to run pairing with any piece of equipment that is used with its interface. By substituting out a hard drive with 2.5 inches SATA hard drive as PS3 or Play Station 3 hard drive is formed. The right-click it again and choose “format to”, then pick “fat32”.ħ. Well, the PS3 must have a HDD, so developpers dont have to code around a missing HDD. A hard drive is a place where data is stored. The filesystem is documented on the dev wiki (spoiler:not proprietary), and there are already programs made to read a PS3 disk from PC. Right-click the partition and select “unmount”.ĥ. 1 3 1.0 C Tool developed by 3141card Actually its very possible to view PS3 disks on PC as long as the eidroot key is known. In the top right corner there should be a drop down menu, pick your external hdd/flash drive there. Open up gparted (“system -> administration -> partition editor” or in a terminal “gksudo gparted”)ģ. Install gparted (go to system -> administration -> synaptic package manager and search for it) (or use “sudo apt-get install gparted”)Ģ.

avi files !) You can add support for some file formats in one of it’s menu’s (wma needed to be added).ġ. It supports a range of formats, including divx, xvid, wma, mp3, jpeg, mpeg4, … (it will not play all. It needs to have a “Video”, “Photo”, “Music” and “Game” folder and all the files have to be in those folders.ģ. Format your external hdd/flash drive to fat32Ģ. I bought a playstation 3 this weekend (insert evil laugh) and got some trouble letting it play my files on my flash drive.ġ.
