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External Hard Disk Doubts

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/external-hard-disk-doubts.137992/

Rohan_B
Rohan_B Original post #1
Mar 14, 2011 at 6:26 PM
I have an external hard drive of Seagate 250GB and I want to format it to FAT32 for use with my PS3 Slim.......
Here are my Doubts-
Which software should i use to Format??
Is there any chance that this can ruin or decrease the performance of my Hard Disk??
Faun
Faun #2
Mar 14, 2011 at 6:55 PM
You can use default windows utility from Device Management.
d3p
d3p #3
Mar 15, 2011 at 11:33 AM
Follow this.

Right click on My Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management ->Right click on the External HDD -> Format & Select the Disk type from the drop down menu.