Hi how do i connect my external hard drive to my ps3 and watch films

maybe it is the same as a hard drive usually you connect a USB with the film and in my settings it will say either TV or USB I just go on the USB setting and the film or films come up and also by putting a DVD into the hard drive it usually automatically goes to the film settings , this maybe different on a PS3 so hope this helps!

Beeping or chirping?
Check it in a PC if you can. If its more of a chirp than a beep your HDD inside likely failed.

Hi,
Welcome to Fixya. Can you pleae provide the make and model of the blueray device so that we can check if the file format of the blueray device is NTFS or FAT32. By default external hard drive is set to NTFS. A good example of this one is a PS3. Ps3 can only detect a hard drive that is a Fat32 fotmat so incase you connect a NTFS hard drive it wont detect it.
Thanks

Hi there.

Can you advise me whether or not the format is still trying to take place?

If not I would recommend using a computer to format it and not the ps3

In order for the PS3 to read your external drive it must be formatted in the FAT32 file format. Is this what your drive is formatted in?

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In regards to connecting external drives to your PS3 they drive has have a FAT format on it for the file system. However most large hard drives do not use this format but USB thumb drives do. This is what I normally use to watch movies to my PS3.

Note the only time I have had to format a large hard drive to FAT is to do a back up of my PS3. If you still would like to format a large drive let me know and I will work up a walk through for you. Note Windows XP and new version of Windows do not have the option to format to a true FAT format. Windows XP does use what is call xFAT but your PS3 will not see the drive.

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HI,
Things You'll Need:

* PlayStation 3
* External hard drive

Unplug any external hard drive that may be attached to the PS3.

Restart the PS3, including unplugging it and plugging it into the power supply again.

Format the file you are trying to save to be less than 2 GB in size. The main reason you are getting this error (game will not save) is due to the large file you tried to save.

Connect the external hard drive to your PS3 again and save the file. The error should not occur again.

Hi,
Plug your drive into the USB port so that it wont get power down inbetween.Hope your problem is solved.

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If you want to hook up any kind of external HDD or flash drive via USB to your PS3, it needs to be formatted in FAT32.

put the sata drive in the new ps3, then offload the information onto an external discdrive through the settings menu. it is the back up option. then put the new drive back into the ps3, reconect the external drive, and go to settings, and i beleive it is called something like restore, and you can retreive the saved data from the external drive and put it on the new ps3 drive. hope that helped. please tell me if it did or not.