thanks lyndon

but after reading on the net i partioned the drive using swissknife and formatted about 14gb as fat32 and the balance to ntfs i am currently using a 250 gb maxtor one touch 4 mini external hard drive

the ps3 displayed it for appx 5-6 sec and then it dissappeared this happened the 1st time i plugged it in to the ps3 after that i never saw it

any thoughts what i should do to

regards
faizel