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Old February 19th, 2015, 08:07 PM
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Help with Backing up PS3/PS4 to external Hard drive

Hey all,

I recently had my PS3 come down with the red light of death So I would like to use a portable hard drive to back up my content on my PS4 and other PS3 in the event this happens again, so I won't lose everything......also, to use less space on my systems. I am not even sure if it's possible, but surely hope so.

Thanks in advance for any and all help,

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Old February 20th, 2015, 05:16 PM
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Anyone? There are a few portable/external hard drives on sale at the moment so I'd like to get one before the sale ends.... if they will do what I'm wanting.

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Old February 20th, 2015, 11:27 PM
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I am not a gamer. But any external drive will work. The key is the external must be formatted FAT32, you can use a computer to do this. Depending on what version of Windows you have. Also from what I read a PS3/PS4 didn't support using files greater than 4GB because FAT32 is limited to files up to 4GB.

Also from what I have read you cannot save PS3/PS4 games to the external drive.

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/featur...console-646264

However you can use the external to store movies, TV shows, videos..

If you get a larger external drive you would need software to format it FAT 32.

One free one I know about is:
http://macrorit.com/partition-magic-...e-edition.html
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Sorry for the delay Murf, I had a few things going on and couldn't log to reply. Thanks again for your reply and help bud.
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