I bought a 1 TB hdd for my ps3 and found how to convert it to fat 32 here : http://www.wikihow.com/Add-an-External-Hard-Drive-to-a-PlayStation-3 but while i'm on a vista pc the "Delete Partition" or "Delete Volume"
options don't show up. There's only 1 user and it's the admin account but from cmd i get INSUFFICIENT privileges
execute in elevated mode which i found out means run as admin. The solution's supposed to be ctl+sft+enter and quickly push alt+c if the user PROFILE tries to assert itself-read that here but while i can press the first 3 getting to alt+c would require another person-within a nanosecond press the 2nd set of buttons.

Any ideas how to get this working-thanks.
If i can't figure it out i'll have to get a 2.5 inch hdd that fits inside the ps3 and they stop at 500 GB. I ENDED up using swissnife on a win xp pro system and particioned my 1 TB external hdd.
It only gave me 429 GB instead of the full 931 GB but that wasn't what i found most odd because while my ps3 recognizes it for : photo,music,movies and game saves it doesn't show up for what i wanted the huge installs.

Games like : dmc4,gt prologue,mgs4,red ALERT 3 and socom are among the worst offenders and while i can back up my internal 60GB of which 55 is usable i want to use the external hdd for the big installs.

My concern is that like wii if it's not on the internal memory it doesn't exist.

Anyone know for sure. Do you think i can use swissnife on vista and if so would i get all 931 GB recognized.

I wish sony would update the firmware to allow an external hdd as an OPTION like save to internal or external hdd and of course they need to get beyond fat 32. thanks.