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    killerjoe is offline Member Starting To Post
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    Default help with formatting

    ok i formatted a 500gb drive to fat32 but after the formatting i have only 129gb
    what should i do how do i get the rest of the 500gb
    i used (format utility for drive key by hp)

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    Manmeet is offline Junior Member Contemporary
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    Format 500GB with :- fat32format.exe on Ur PC
    plug in to PS3 & it asks for format Again...
    its Done...


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    fmj77 is offline Senior Member PS3ISO AllStar
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    Are there 2 partitions on the hdd or only 1? Sounds like you only formatted 129 GB instead of the maximum allowed for the drive.

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