The Scenario

Format 3TB hard drive to FAT32
Hi, I need help in formatting a 3TB external drive to Fat32. It is for my PS4 . I have tried to look for hours and but no success. Appreciate all the help , Thanks."
- Question from forums. tomshardware.com
The Problem
Many Microsoft users want to change their new hard drive to 3TB hard drive, or add a
3TB hard drive to extend its storage space. However, the PS3, PS4, Xbox one, XBox360
cannot recognize the 3TB hard drive. Thus, the question is how to solve the
problem?
You have already know that it was because of those devices only support FAT32. Thus,
you have to format the file system of the hard drive into FAT32.
The Solutions
For formatting 3TB hard drive from NTFS to FAT32, there are three ways you can take.
But first you need know that you may meet the problem that you can only use at most
2TB of this 3TB hard drive because if it is MBR disk, it can only support up to 2TB,
thus you need convert the MBR to GPT disk firstly.
Windows Disk Management is the disk manager built-in Windows operating system. You
can use this tool to format the internal and external hard drive to FAT32. However,
if the partition is lager than 32GB, the Windows Disk Management can only format it
to NTFS. Thus, when you try to use it to format the 3TB hard drive, you will find
the file system only show you “NTFS”.

Fortunately, there are some third party software can help you format internal and
external 3TB hard drive to FAT32. Here we highly recommend you AOMEI Partition Assistant to
format internal and external 3TB hard drive to FAT32 without losing data.
Format 3TB hard drive to FAT32 with AOMEI Partition Assistant
AOMEI Partition Assistant is a good partition manager that can partition your hard disk safely and quickly. Besides, if you want to format the internal and external 3TB hard drive to FAT32, the AOMEI Partition Assistant must be the best choice. If there are some important data on the partition, back them up first because once you format the partition, all the data on it will be destroyed. You can download the software and follow the steps below:
Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, you will see
its main interface. Right click the partition and select Format Partition.

Step 2. It will pop out a window for formatting. Select FAT32 at the drop down menu of File System, and you can set a
partition label and the cluster size according to your requirements. After all the
settings, click OK to move on.

Step 3. You will back to the main interface, and you can see the F
partition is marked as FAT32. Don’t forget to click Apply at the
tool bar to submit all the operating system.

Thus, you have already format the 3TB hard drive to FAT32. If the file system of the
3TB hard drive is NTFS, or it has many important data on it, the AOMEI Partition
Assistant can help you convert NTFS to FAT32 without losing data, which can save a big trouble for you.
If this method cannot help you format 3TB hard drive to FAT32 successfully, you can
try to use the Spilt Partition of AOMEI Partition Assistant
to divide the 3TB hard drive into multiple small partitions, and then, format those
small partitions into FAT32 with Format Partition features by the way we mentioned
above.