New hard drive in Playstation 3 but it will not format?

kippers cracks · Jan 25, 2012, 09:55 PM

Hi All,

i have purchased a seagate ST9250320AS 250gb hard drive and cannot get my ps3 to recognise it .
have followed many links formatting to fat32 etc etc but always get the same error cannot start wrong hard disk

i have checked and noticed its sata ii - anyone help please ?
thanks in advance

Tipstaff · Jan 26, 2012, 07:33 AM

One thing you could try is would be to limit the speed of the driver to 1.5GB/s (as I mentioned in an earlier post). To do this: tilt the drive so that you have the SATA power connector on your right, the data connector in the middle, and the jumpers are on the left. This is important as, from that perspective, you want to jumper the first and second pins from the far left edge. That will put the drive into SATA1, or 1.5GB/s mode.

Also, you shouldn't need to format that particular drive before hand. So, before trying the above first hook the hard drive back up to a PC, delete all partitions, install the drive into the PS3, and then format it in the PS3.

BTW, which PS3 is this? The older "fat" version or the newer "slim"?

Jan 25, 2012, 09:55 PM	#31
kippers cracks HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Re: New hard drive in Playstation 3 but it will not format? Hi All, i have purchased a seagate ST9250320AS 250gb hard drive and cannot get my ps3 to recognise it . have followed many links formatting to fat32 etc etc but always get the same error cannot start wrong hard disk i have checked and noticed its sata ii - anyone help please ? thanks in advance

Jan 26, 2012, 07:33 AM	#32
Tipstaff HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Torauna Posts: 6,773 Rep Power: 190 System Specs	Re: New hard drive in Playstation 3 but it will not format? One thing you could try is would be to limit the speed of the driver to 1.5GB/s (as I mentioned in an earlier post). To do this: tilt the drive so that you have the SATA power connector on your right, the data connector in the middle, and the jumpers are on the left. This is important as, from that perspective, you want to jumper the first and second pins from the far left edge. That will put the drive into SATA1, or 1.5GB/s mode. Also, you shouldn't need to format that particular drive before hand. So, before trying the above first hook the hard drive back up to a PC, delete all partitions, install the drive into the PS3, and then format it in the PS3. BTW, which PS3 is this? The older "fat" version or the newer "slim"? __________________ Portal: The Flash Version _________________________________ Brain: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker? Mr. Sackett: The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I've sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.