I wonder: If I tear apart one of my External USB hard drives(that is basically just a HDD with a dongle that converts SATA power and data to DC and USB) and connect my old PS3 HDD(from my old 80GB BC PS3 that got the YLOD in Jan2011) to it. Then connect that to my Slim, will it recognize it as just an external storage device?
The PS3 uses FAT32 for external devices, so as the above post stated, it will require a reformat to be used externally. So you should backup your data firstly, then proceed to format the disk.
Well I tried it. And it didn't even recognize it. The drive would spin up and the LED on the Sata to USB dongle would light up for activity and then just sit(meaning there is no accessing of the drive. If it was being accessed by the system it would pulse in and out) I know i'm NOT going to swap it for the current drive because of the Reformat thing. And I know the dongle was fine because I hooked the HDD it was on back up to it, and the PS3 recognized partition #2 on the drive (which is FAT32) immediately. I even tried to hook the PS3 drive to my PC to see if would show up and let me format it for kicks. Nope. Drive spun up and was recognized with the usual USB tone in W7. But nothing showed up in MyComputer. Probably might've shown it if I'd gone in to diskmanagement. *shrug* So guess i'm stuck until I can get my Old PS3 repaired or something. Thanks for the suggestions anyways ;/
