How do I put games on my PS3 from an external hard drive?

You can’t install games on external USB drives. Games will only run off of the internal hard drive. You can replace the internal hard drive. It will take any standard SATA 2.5″ (laptop-sized) drive.

Can you use NTFS on PS3 multiMAN?

Yes, you can access NTFS drives from multiMAN. I have several PS3 games backed up on my NTFS partition in ISO format and I’m able to see each of them in multiMAN (actually mmCM which is Cobra mode) and mount them, which then takes me to the desktop as if the physical game disc was inserted.

Do external hard drives work on PS3?

You can play music, movies, view pictures and so much more. These things can be done via CD, DVD, thumb drive, and external hard drive that’s connected to your PS3. Sadly, you just can’t take any external hard drive, plug it into your PS3 console, and expect it to work.

Why is Multiman not recognizing games on external HDD?

Launch multiman, refresh, but nothing is found. What I have seen is that it works fine with my flash drive, find games on there just fine. The peculiar thing is that when I plug my USB Flash Drive into the USB HUB of the PS3, in the port closest to the BD drive, it comes up as “dev_usb000”.

What kind of flash drive do I need to install Multiman?

To install multiMAN you will need a FAT32 USB device (external HDD, or flashdrive) of anything size, but a big one is better if you want to backup your games to the external HDD. The FAT32 USB device will be referred to as “USB drive” along this tutorial.

Is there a way to install Multiman on a PS3?

If prepNTFS 1.19 + webMAN MOD is used, it is possible to install Packages from NTFS almost as simple as install from FAT32 (specially the pkg files larger than 4GB). Click to expand… Nice. I didn’t know about that.

Can You Play PS3 games from external HDD?

PS3: MultiMAN – Run Games from External HDD without a Disc! (HD) – YouTube PS3: MultiMAN – Run Games from External HDD without a Disc! (HD)