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Format Western Digital Hard Drive to FAT32

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Good evening everyone, so I'd like to format my Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB external hard drive in Fat32 so I can put my backups on it but the problem is that when I "right click" on the hard drive in "My Computer", I only get the choice between formatting in NTFS or in ExFAT, how do I do this please?
Also, I saw that to be able to play with a backup on an external HDD, it needed to be split into 4GB files, is that right?

Thanks.
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Is it the same process for the PS3?
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Brabus18 wrote:Is it the same process for the PS3?
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I saw that to be able to play with a backup on an external HDD, it had to be split into 4Go files, is that right?
there are a few games (rare) with files of 4go or more (fat32 is limited to 4go) if you come across one of those games let me know I'll explain. the software you'll need to use is PSARC
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Hi salahpayne, no I'm on Windows XP, should I still download what you posted?
there are a few games (rare) with files of 4go or more (fat32 is limited to 4go) if you come across one of those games let me know I'll explain. the software you'll need to use is PSARC
I didn't really understand lol ^^
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Go through Ubuntu to format it.

There's also fat32formatter I think.
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Thanks MeTalYaNg ;). I'm formatting with the software salahpayne posted for me :)
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Brabus18 wrote:Hi salahpayne, no I'm on Windows XP, should I still download what you posted?
yes
there are a few games (rare) with files of 4go or more (fat32 is limited to 4go) if you come across one of those games let me know I'll explain. the software you'll need to use is PSARC
I didn't really understand lol ^^
with psarc you take the big files you extract them then you put their content into a folder (with the same name).
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Ok thanks, well I've still got to wait, formatting is only at 42% :93:
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Brabus18 wrote:Ok thanks, well I've still got to wait, formatting is only at 42% :93:
why didn't you use quick format :?: :?:
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I hadn't seen that lol but anyway it's finally done =). By the way, where should I put the game's folder on the external hard drive? Do I need to create a folder first?
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For info, I have Open Manager so I understood that on Backup Manager it's the GAMEZ folder you need to create at the root and as far as I'm concerned, on Open Manager it's the OMAN46756 folder. Is that right?
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Brabus18 wrote:For info, I have Open Manager so I understood that on Backup Manager it's the GAMEZ folder you need to create at the root and as far as I'm concerned, on Open Manager it's the OMAN46756 folder. Is that right?
Yes on the external drive you need to have the GAMEZ folder.

the OMAN46756 folder is on the internal Hdd
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Thanks I managed to launch my Backup :accord:
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Brabus18 wrote:Thanks I managed to launch my Backup :accord:
Bravo Brabus :74:
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Thanks to you and everyone else especially :xmas:
Alright I'll leave you guys :bn:
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Hi everyone, so I have a backup that's about 11Go. I wanted to copy it last night to the external hard drive but at 96%, it froze, I get the following error message: "i/o write error".
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