If i take my harddrive out....

just to take a look at it on my computer (i just wanna mess around a bit), and then put it back in my ps3, will my ps3 turn on just as if i had never done so?

it did this weird thing maybe two month ago when i turned it on and had to 'retrieve the data'. and i don't want it to do that again because it took forever to reorganize my music. like literally ages. but i just wanna take a look at my ps3's hard drive on a computer using my hard drive enclosure. so do i run any risks or not?

I took mine out and everything was fine.

But your not going to be able to do anything with it when its hooked up to your PC, just the option to reformat it.

Dont do it!
It will format your HDD

i think thats so weird considering i can take my laptop's hd out, plug it into my pc, and then put it back in my laptop without any harm done

There both completely different formats. The PC wants to format it to understand it. Im not sure what the ps3 formats it to but i know its different to a PC.cooldust

[QUOTE="cooldust"]There both completely different formats. The PC wants to format it to understand it. Im not sure what the ps3 formats it to but i know its different to a PC.Ninja_Zombie83

[QUOTE="Ninja_Zombie83"][QUOTE="cooldust"]There both completely different formats. The PC wants to format it to understand it. Im not sure what the ps3 formats it to but i know its different to a PC.rikguenther

they can only do up to 32gb though

[QUOTE="Ninja_Zombie83"][QUOTE="cooldust"]There both completely different formats. The PC wants to format it to understand it. Im not sure what the ps3 formats it to but i know its different to a PC.rikguenther

[QUOTE="rikguenther"][QUOTE="Ninja_Zombie83"] Bingo! The same thing happens if you buy a brand new HDD and put it into your PS3, the very first thing it will do is format it. If you hook up your HDD to your PC you can bet the same thing is going to happen. TehSonofUgly

they can only do up to 32gb though

EDIT: forgot to mention, fat32 can only handle a maximum individual filesize of about 4gb.

[QUOTE="TehSonofUgly"]

[QUOTE="rikguenther"] kill me if i'm wrong, but don't you have to format the HDD to fat32 to make it work on the PS3? every version of windows above win95 can recognize fat32. is it some special version of fat32?rikguenther

they can only do up to 32gb though

EDIT: forgot to mention, fat32 can only handle a maximum individual filesize of about 4gb.