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I had issue with a 640G Western Digital My Book External Hard Drive. ‘Erasing’ (the Mac term for formatting) the WD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) was impossible or so I thought, because the default format was MS-FAT32. Although Mac reads FAT, I was aware of FAT’s instability in Windows and given the size of the drive, I wanted an exclusive Mac platform to avoid the risk of losing a sizable amount of data. Trawling the blogs, I found a tip by one CarlaMac that worked perfectly. I launched Mac’s Disk Utility and did the following :- On the ‘PARTITION’ menu I selected ‘1 Partition’ and in the same window I clicked ‘Options’ 3 button options shows up for erasing. I clicked the first button (GUiD) for the Mac platform. Then I clicked ‘Apply’ and it the ‘erasing’ was done in minutes. I now have a stable MacDrum, minus the FAT, to throw stuff in.

Wei, my adopted niece, is a happy little thing with her PS3. She had a 40G before I purchased my 80G two weeks ago. What persuaded me to get this versatile machine was not so much Wei, but witnessing a close buddy enjoying Grand Theft Auto on his. Wei maxed out her 40 sometime back and asked me to upgrade it for further downloads and game saves. I was lazy to learn the procedure but when I got mine, I thought it was an excellent opportunity to do so, having already embraced Home where Home-Spaces are saved as you move around. Two weeks of Home and other downloads left me with 20G (out of 76 at start-up). Firstly, some blogging and research was in order. Most web tutorials walked the procedure like a breeze but I noticed a major step missing. Installing the system update file named PS3UPDAT.PUP into the fresh drive, without which the fresh drive does not start-up the unit. Only the PlayStation Knowledge Centre has the information and the PS3UPDAT.PUP download and I thank some pos...