Whether you’re formatting an internal drive, external drive, USB flash drive, or SD card, Windows will give you the choice of NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. But PS4 only supports two of these file systems—FAT32 and exFAT. FAT32 is an older file system that’s largely relegated to USB flash drives and other external drives.

EDIT: Shoot, meant to post this in the Console and Peripherals support forum. I would appreciate it if someone can move it there. Thanks in advance! (To mods: Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this. Fell free to move or lock if it isn't) [DESCRIPTION] When attempting to use an external drive that has been partitioned for use with both Time Machine on macOS Sierra and a PS4 system - as a partition that's been formated as either FAT32 or exFAT, - the console may incorrectly identify the drive's hidden EFI partition as a usable storage medium instead of the larger FAT32/exFAT partition due to it's order on the partition table; to which it then asks the user to initialize before use. Doing so may render the drive's recovery partition unbootable.

[STEPS TO REPRODUCE] • Connect an external drive to any Mac running macOS Sierra and set it up as a Time Machine backup volume. • Once the inital backup finishes, open Disk Utility and add either a 'MS-DOS (FAT)' or exFAT partition to the Time Machine volume (see for details.) • Open Terminal.app and type ' diskutil list ' t o confirm the added partition's order on the table.

How to reset administrator password on mac. The EFI partiton should be near top of the Time Machine drive's partition list; above the FAT32/exFAT partition you created earlier. An example is shown below: HOSTNAME:~ USER$ diskutil list.

/dev/disk2 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *4.0 TB disk2 1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk2s1 2: Apple_HFS Time Machine 2.0 TB disk2s2 3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk2s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data PS4 2.0 TB disk2s4 • Eject the drive along with both partitons and connect it to a PS4 system. • Once connected, navigate to [Settings] -> [Devices] -> [USB Storage Devices]. You should now see the reported size of the disk equal to the size of the EFI partition as opposed to the much larger 'Microsoft Basic Data' one that was intended to be used. [WORKAROUNDS] None available. [COMMENTS] This took me quite a while to to debug.

I was looking to reuse an existing drive that I was using with Time Machine to try and backup my PS4 and was puzzled as to why it wasn't detecting the partition I had created for it. Had the random thought to open a Terminal prompt and list out all of the partitions on the disk; and that's when it hit me: the size it was reporting was the same size of the EFI partition on the drive. Microsoft office 365 for mac at amazon prime.

I'm starting to think the console's system software is merely iterating through the partitions one by one without properly checking to make sure it's the one the user intended to use; which could obviously cause any number of things to break if they were to actually format it. Has anyone else run into this, lately? Thread moved to consoles/peripherals. All drives are repartitioned and Fullly formated. No matter the user set up HDD preference. Once you hit the format function the HOLE drive is whiped be it MAC LINUX or Windows that created the Exfat drive.

All content is erased and the HDD made encrypted like the internal HDD. You do not get to Keep the drive as a PC device.

Its not a bug, it planned to kill PC access to the data. Same as the internal HDD And there is a simple Fix NUKE the partition table in DISK UTILITY to a Brand new GUID partition table. With 1 single exfat partition. No HFS format junk.

KnifedInBack wrote. The console may incorrectly identify the drive's hidden EFI partition as a usable storage medium instead of the larger FAT32/exFAT partition due to it's order on the partition table. USB Devices menu was recently added in System Software 4.50. PS4 Settings, Devices, USB Storage, (your USB). As of System Software 4.55, this menu only displays the first partition.

Pressing options to format will erase everything, including all parititons. But, PS4 might still find a usable large patitions. Try to backup or copy saved games anyway, it seem to display both exFAT patitions for me anyway when copying saved data or using backup and restore.