Another HDD help thread

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Originally Posted by PAGATRON™

Yeah, I put the 40gb hard drive in the enclosure, made sure it was all screwed in properly I reformatted it using my MacBook pro to FAT32, I put an avi file onto it disconntected from the mac plug it into the PS3' USB port. The lights on the enclosure are on but I'm not getting anything on the PS3.

What kind of 2.5 enclosure did you get? You're not seeing the HDD coming up at all on the PS3 XMB? Is the HDD dependent on the USB2.0 cord to supply the power from the PS3 or does it have its own power supply?

I got an enclosure for my old 60GB when I switched to a 250GB, and it had a USB2.0 connector with two male jacks to connect to a PC/other device and my PS3 never even saw the drive once I plugged it into the PS3 after I formatted the drive FAT32. I just shelved the 60GB and said forget it, since I stream all my music and movies remotely through my PC network. If the PS3 is not seeing the drive at all, and the external is not running off its own power supply then your prob most likely is the HDD is not getting enough power to spin up and be recognized by the PS3.