Problems restoring PS3 from backup please help :)

[homer]

Slimebeast said:

mysticwolf said:

homer said:

mysticwolf said:

okey dokey, so what do I do then? can I reformat the external without losing everything on the backup? i still have the 160 GB HDD, if I need that

I would do as you said, back up your lap top. What is possible, but I don't know if it would work, is to divide part of your external into fat 32 and then maybe move the data over to there somehow? I don't know if that would erase your data or not though.

well, right now I'm copying the backup from the external hard drive to my laptop. About 20 minutes left, thanks to the power of USB 3.0. Then I will try to reformat the external. But I'm not sure how to reformat it.

But wasn't your PS3 unable to read the backupped data on the external drive? Why would it help to shuffle it around to one more hard drive?

We must look at the objective. Keep his data safe whilst changing his external drive into a new format. He might be able to partition it and keep his data safe and then move it to the partition or he could back it up somewhere else, reformat the drive or partition it, and then recopy it in the correct format. I guess it isn't needed, but I'm not sure if by partitioning the drive, if he will lose data or if you can copy files across a partitioned drive(I assume you can but have never done it).