Update - I was able to get the harddisk to be formatted as FAT32 and put the PS3 file structure on it, now the hard disk itself is not working properly… terrific. This will be disk number 6 that I have to junk. Hard disks are so unreliable.
Today, nobody asked me any questions... maybe I am invisible... its very sunny here in Tokyo today. Public holiday tomorrow... going out to dinner tonight on a date... should be nice.