I got your answer.

I went though the same sh!t.
I run vista and I wanted my external 500 gb hdd to be compatible with my Ps3.
But vista would not fully format the HDD to to fat32.

A program called Swiss Knife will allow you to format any drive up to 1tb to fat32.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...issKnife.shtml

Took me about 3 and a half days to find it but it worked. This should get yours up and running aswell.

After you format the drive to fat32 and install it. The PS3 will probably have to re-format the drive.


And if this doesn't work, then your drive or the ps3 might be defective.
Even with a clean drive the ps3 would be able to self format it...