I insert a USB drive into my PS3, go to settings –> system settings –> backup utility, click through the screens, choose my USB drive… and it tells me "USB Drive is locked."
- There is no physical locking mechanism on the drive
- I've tried reformatting as FAT32
- I've tried different allocation unit sizes, as suggested here.
- The drive can be read fine by the PS3, and read/written to fine by a PC.
Information on the net is sparse – has anyone had similar problems? The USB drive is an HP.
Best Answer
Unless I use a USB drive that is as large as what I have installed on my PS3's HDD it will give me the same error. You should uninstall games if you can just install them again easily. I deleted my games from a 500gb HDD so that I only had save data, and it allowed me to use a 120gb drive for backup. I don't understand why it does that though, because when using the backup utility I've never had it actually back up the installed games anyway.