Formatting and partition for PS3/PS4
Is it necessary to create FAT32 partition for PS3/PS4? PS3 and PS4 are two well-known
game consoles developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Many game lovers must be
familiar with them. Usually, users like saving data such as games, movies on an
external HDD (Hard Disk Drive). So it comes to problems of formatting and
partition.
1st, about formatting. As SONY is using FAT32 as the standard for
PS3 and PS4, their hard drives must be FAT32 file system. Otherwise, the device can
not read data. If there’s just one NTFS external HDD, what can you do? Don’t worry,
AOMEI Partition Assistant also has the utility that helps you convert NTFS to FAT32. Normally,
FAT32 can be converted to NTFS easily but not vice, especially with Windows built-in
Disk Management, only the partition whose size is smaller than 32GB can be formatted
from NTFS to FAT32. Anyway, AOMEI solves it handily.
2nd, aboutpartition. According to different requirements, the HDD
actually is able to be divided into two or more partitions for better management.
For example, you can create three partitions for a PS3/PS4. One for games only,
another one for movies and the last one is for music. In this case, it’s more
convenient for you to find the files you want. In addition, if something wrong
suddenly happens to one partition, the data on other partitions won’t be infected.
Now let’s see how to create FAT32 partitions on an external HDD.
Step by step to create FAT32 partition on external HDD for PS3/PS4
Apart from using the converter, here will show you how to create a FAT32 partition
directly from an NTFS partition.
Step 1: Please downloadfree AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition. It supports Windows
7/8/8.1/10/XP/Vista (32bit and 64bit).
Step 2: Install and launch Partition Assistant. Connect the HDD to
your PC until being detected.
Step 3: Right click the NTFS partition. Select “Create Partition”.

Step 4: You can set size here. The important thing is to change file
system under “Advanced” so that it's possible to create FAT32 partition for
PS3/PS4 directly.

Step 5: After you finish all operations, click “Apply” to execute.

That’s all. Employing AOMEI to create FAT32 partition for PS3/PS4 is just easy as you
see. Now you can insert the HDD for PS3/PS4. By the way, If there’s nothing on the
disk, maybe the whole process just takes few minutes. What’s more, other functions
like “Merge Partitions”, “Split Partition” and so on can also
provide better management for your computers.