My question: Can anyone tell me of a reason not to do this, or any possible problems in the future from doing this? It seems the first 2TB drive is working just fine with the accidental abort during the FAT32 formatting. I did test the "accidental abort" process on the new drive, and it does read as FAT32 (like the last one) just worried of possible future consequences, as the drive was not formatted "properly". The master boot record or EFI information area is corrupt. The Hard Drive has been initialized to a wrong partition table.
If you can, please remember to back up your data before formatting. The previous formatting process was incomplete. Reformat your Seagate external hard drive with new File System with erase all the data on it. These reasons are: The Hard drive is out of date.
#Format seagate expansion 5tb cluster size full#
With my new second (back-up) 2TB drive, im wondering if I should repeat the "accidental abort" process while the drive is being formatted to FAT32, as it will be considerably less time - and have seen no ill effects from it happening to the first drive. We will be discussing five possible reasons for your Hard disk size, not showing its full capacity. I've since added more media on it since then and now at about 1.5 TB full with still no problems. max cluster size: 32K practical, 64K with high incompatibility (PS3 and Xbox360 will accept it, but most applications will not).
#Format seagate expansion 5tb cluster size ps3#
I noticed though, the drive was then reading as "FAT32", was readable by the PS3 (or any other computer, etc.), and I was able to transfer all my media (just under 1TB at that time) onto the drive without complications. Large drives (eg 3TB+) should be reformatted with 512 bytes per cluster as large drives tend to be factory formatted with 4096 bytes per cluster which can cause problems with WSB. Microsoft do not supply tools that can format this size of disk in FAT32 by limitin. FAT32 can have a maximum number of 268,435,445 clusters FAT32 has a recommended maximum 32KB cluster size This equates to 8.5TB as a maximum partition size. When I formatted the the first 2TB drive to FAT32, it was running for about a half hour when I accidently hit "abort" and it stopped the process. Answer (1 of 2): not quite, the actual limit is 8TB. I just bought a second 2TB drive as a back-up so I wouldnt lose everything on the first 2TB, if anything happened to it. I use a 2TB external drive, formatted to FAT 32, to hold all my movies, tv shows, music, and photos, which all can be played/displayed on my TV through the PS3. I have a PS3 and the PS3 will not read NFTS, only FAT32. Agreed that leaving the drive NFTS would be a much easier solution but as ZoZo mentioned, some of us are in a situation where we need the drive to be FAT32 to operate for the purposes we need it to.