Format wd easystore external hard drive for ps4

#FORMAT WD EASYSTORE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR PS4 FULL#

Many Western Digital external USB drives over 2 TB (including at least some My Book, My Book Essential, Elements, and Easystore drives) can be configured for either 512 byte logical sectors or 4096 byte logical sectors using the WD Quick Formatter tool. Is there a way to force 4096/4096 for an MSDOS partition table (either from Linux or Windows) so that I can create a 3TB partition that perfectly matches my source disk?

Using GPT is my fall-back option, but it creates a partition that is slightly smaller than the NTFS partition, so I wouldn't be able to just dd the filesystem on the partition. Given that one of my drives is running at 4096/4096 then this question doesnвЂ™t hold true for my case. I've tried various commands ( dd of the first few sectors to partition table, parted, fdisk, gparted, Windows XP вЂњManageвЂќ and Windows 7 вЂњManageвЂќ) but end up with either 2TB max limits or ~300GB partitions that thought they were 3TB when they were created.

My problem is that IвЂ™m trying to copy to the 512/4096 drive, but I canвЂ™t create a large enough partition because of the limits of the MSDOS partition table with 512 byte (logical) sectors. Both drives were bought at the same time, both use MSDOS partition table, but one shows logical/physical sector sizes of 4096/4096 and the other shows 512/4096. There are lots of small files, so running cp would be even slower than copying 3TB over USB using dd. I want the other to be a backup of that data.

#FORMAT WD EASYSTORE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR PS4 FULL#

One contains nearly the full 3TB of data. I have two supposedly identical 3TB Western Digital USB hard disk drives.

Format wd easystore external hard drive for ps4