Quote Originally Posted by Tsukino_Kaji View Post
You can. But you would need one of those ever allusive fomat disks.
HDD Utility Disc and PSBBN won't format a non-Sony HDD. They scan for Sony's custom HDD firmware, and any drive that doesn't have it is not detected by the HDD support. Only the 40 GB hard drives from Sony have the required firmware. No other size is available.