Select the external hard drive. Press the Options button on the remote. Choose Extended Storage in Application Installation Location. At the end of the process, all the games that you download and install from disk will do it on the external hard drive of the console instead of the internal one as yet.
Can you install PS3 games on external hard drive?
You can’t install games on external USB drives. Games will only run off of the internal hard drive. You can replace the internal hard drive. It will take any standard SATA 2.5″ (laptop-sized) drive.
How do I get my PS3 to recognize my external hard drive?
Scroll through the menu until “External Drive” or “Additional Drive” is highlighted. Press the triangle button and then choose “Display all.” You’ll have to do this every time, as the PS3 doesn’t have a default option to browse external drives. Your folders will now be visible.
Can you install PS3 games on an external hard drive?
Some type of box? You can’t install games on external USB drives. Games will only run off of the internal hard drive. You can replace the internal hard drive. It will take any standard SATA 2.5″ (laptop-sized) drive. The drive will be reformatted automatically. See How to upgrade your PS3 hard drive. I upgraded to a 1 TB drive.
How can I transfer PS3 games to my PC?
Also any games you may have on your pc can be transfered to the external hard drive by going into the GAMEZ folder and making a new folder in here for the game you want to transfer, then copy the PS3_GAME, PS3_BACKUP and PS3_DISC.SFB files to that folder. You will need an original game disk in the drive to run games from your external hard drive.
Can you play a PS3 game off of a disc?
You can’t do that. a) Installs required as cache for the game, but the disc is still needed for play. b) Games bought off of PSN that install to your drive, but also have disc based versions in retail (Warhawk/Burnout/Siren).
How do you partition a hard drive on a PS3?
If the file system type is NTFS, right-click on the drive, and click on ‘Delete Partition’, without changing any of the default settings. Download and install a formatting software, like SwissKnife V3, or any other utility tool to format your drive to FAT32. Select the hard drive that you need to partition.
