How to Format an External Drive in OS X. Connect the drive to the Mac. Review of quicken 2015 for mac. Open Disk Utility. If you don't plan on using the drive for Time Machine, skip steps 5 to 11 below and continue with step 12. Give the drive a descriptive name and leave the default settings: OS X Extended format and GUID.

Seems simple: connect the drive, select backup ps4, hit go. However when I connect my external drive there is only one option: Use This Extended Storage. No Options menu available. So I connect it as Extended Storage.

Then I go to System -> Backup and Restore -> Back up PS4. It says 'Cannot perform this operation. The connected USB Storage is being used as extended storage'. If I stop using the USB device as extended storage then try to backup it tells me that the device is not connected. But I can only connect as extended storage! This is a catch-22 and very frustrating!

I'm trying to backup my drive because I had a power outage while playing Shadow of War and I lost my savegame. 30+ hours of gameplay, gone. All because they never thought there might be a power outage during a save. Update: Got a little farther. I have tried using a FAT32 and EXFAT external drive. With both of them when the backup actually starts I get an error message: 'Cannot access the USB storage device CE-31414-3'. I have looked online and nothing has helped.

Without knowing anything about the external hard drive you are using, this sounds like a formatting problem to me. According to, it says that external hard drives must be formatted in FAT32 or exFAT. Most external hard drives are formatted in NTFS. You will probably have to plug your external hard drive into your PC and format it first. (Doing so will erase any data that is currently on the hard drive, so make a copy of that somewhere first, if it is anything that you need to keep.) You can find a guide to do this online, if you are not familiar with the process. New solution: CE-31414-3: Unplug and replug the drive when PS4 reboots.

I ran into similar issues with backing up my PS4. I confirmed that I had a single exFAT 0.5TB partition on an MBR partition table (created on a Mac using disk utility after enabling 'show volumes'). The PS4 would prepare the backup but after reboot it would quickly fail with error CE-31414-3. My suspicion was that the problem is actually the power down cycle reboot sequence: I believe the PS4 powers down and powers up the portable USB SSD too quickly for the SSD to properly reboot. So I manually unplugged it from the PS4 for an extra second after I saw the second write to disk finish. This allowed PS4 to find the disk and the backup has now started. I had also tried 'rebuilding the database' in safe mode and setting the description to a single letter and setting the partition name to a 4 letters - but these did not help.All off these are likely unnecessary if it actually is the short-duration power cycling problem.

As mentioned, you shouldn't connect it as extended storage. If it asks you whether to use it as extended storage, say no. It should then just consider it a USB media device. Then go to the system menu, select the Backup and Restore option, then select the external drive from there. I would guess that formatting from the PS4 is also not ideal, I've always formatted my backup drive from a PC.

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Now Windows might not format large drives as anything but NTFS, so you might need to download a FAT32 format program.