Sony BDP s370 Fat32 partition

[sane83]

I bought a Sony BDP s370. Iam trying to connect my 500gb internal Hardrive to the Player which has three fat32 partitions, But the player detects only the first partition. I tried reformatting but player is detecting only the first fat32 partition.
Any suggestions as to how i can make the other two drives available.

 

[KDM]

I bought a Sony BDP s370. Iam trying to connect my 500gb internal Hardrive to the Player which has three fat32 partitions, But the player detects only the first partition. I tried reformatting but player is detecting only the first fat32 partition.
Any suggestions as to how i can make the other two drives available.

You can't. Your only option is to backup, wipe and re-partition the HDD to FAT32/1 partition only. There are partitioning tools that will do that for you.

 

[sachinaik]

Also notice that Fat32 partitions can not be > 32GB.

 

[KDM]

Also notice that Fat32 partitions can not be > 32GB.

That's not completely true. Just because M$ software cannot do it, doesn't mean third party software cannot do it.

CompuApps SwissKnife V3 - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

You'd expect a program called SwissKnife to do all sorts of things, but this tiny application does only two: creating and quickly formatting disc partitions that can be read by Mac, Windows, and Linux systems. It can't resize, move, or even delete created partitions, nor can it work with partitions on the boot disc. It can, however, make FAT32 partitions larger than 32MB--something Windows 2000 and XP can't do. For swapping an external drive between platforms, CompuApps SwissKnife is just what you need. Otherwise, you'll probably do just as well with Windows Disk Management.

 

[sachinaik]

Thanks KDM.

This is just what I needed!!

I've Samsung 6900 3Dblue ray player which recognises NTFS, but when it plays .99GB DVD files, it stutters.

Now I can format my 500GB Seagate freeagent into a FAT32 single partition disk and watch movies from it in my Sony BDP-S370 Cool!!

 

[renjith]

Thanks KDM.

This is just what I needed!!

I've Samsung 6900 3Dblue ray player which recognises NTFS, but when it plays .99GB DVD files, it stutters.

Now I can format my 500GB Seagate freeagent into a FAT32 single partition disk and watch movies from it in my Sony BDP-S370 Cool!!

Did you check it out?

and max file size for fat32 is 4GB, so can't play big files unless spilt!