That's how all removable storage devices work across all devices including a PC.

This post was edited by ROM on Jan 28 2015 07:26am

Well lets say your friend brings his HDD to your house to do whatever he's doing on it. He cant since all the devices will format it.

I don't need my device formatting shit for me. On the PC right click, format.

I just dont see the sense

not everybody has a pc and knows how to format a hd on it
and if your friend was going to bring over his hd why the fuck not just bring the whole ps3?
those are like... the dumbest points ever why did you even bother posting those

This post was edited by dragoneth on Jan 28 2015 08:05am

Say 1 HDD filled up and he had 2?

Without formatting there is no way for the HDD to know how to store files.

then replace it with a nnew n bigger hd and re d/l
hel leven savbe ur shit on cloud with ps+ then do it
or be a normal person delete shit n make space

I backed up 160gb of games and data 2 years ago
Now..I just delete the shit I'm done with

The point is that the drive are already formatted to ps3 though


I do think its dumb i cant take it out and put it back in the same machine without formatting.


However i did the format on my small drive (nothing i care about on it) and all the files/ settings were still there. Maybe its jsut needs the update file on a USB to realize it doesnt need an update?

no fucking clue, but im pleased ill probably try the big drive this weekend.

it's probably a thing where it just says it to any drive once it realizes a drive has been removed
then it simply checks to see if needed to format it and goes from there

So noob