So I had this portable hard drive, with like 298 Gb space. I had been using it to store videos to play on my PS3. It worked fine, until one day last week I decided to run some program that had been included on it that I had never opened. It asked me whether I wanted to format it in FAT32, NTSF, or both. I knew that formatting it would erase data so I transferred the 18 or so gigs of video I had on it onto my computer, and formatted it to NTSF.
Today I wanted to go watch Castle in the Sky so I plugged it into my PS3. It wouldn't recognize it. I learned that it was because it was formatted to that format. I tried to do it to FAT32 using a load of external programs. When I finally found one that would ctually fucking run, it formatted it to FAT32. I tried adding the files back on and it said it would take a FUCKING DAY AND A HALF to transfer. I said "Fuck that shit" so I formatted it to NTSF again and figured out how to make a FAT32 partition. That's working nicely right now, but I accidentally made it waaaay too big at first so Windows wouldn't format it. I split it and formatted the first partition to FAT32 and then found I couldn't just add that extra space to the first partition because they weren't "adjacent" or something.
Seriously?!
So now I'm stuck with two NTSF partitions and a FAT32 partition. It works fine but it's annoying that I had to jump through a million hoops and now have it split into three parts when two will do.
Fuck.