Well i downloaded the iso burned in nero as a nonmultisession bootable cd, verified contents, went into bios set cdrom as first boot option, restarted and got a huge long scrollpage of text i couldn't even see or read then this funky loop of error messages about i/0 buffer error stuff, took cd out made a second boot cd of same iso rebooted same thing...

humm maybe ill hit google some more here, there's gotta be a way tho I remember that external drive i had before was 100-120 gig and i swapped that over to fat32 as one drive...

Actually having the files be less than 4 gb is totally fine for this application, even 2 hr movies converted in nero recode at high quality can be made at 3.9gb with no loss (and thats on a 120 inch 1080p projector).

Music wise I got a ton i was hoping to move over again all under that 4gb file limitation, so was just hoping to use this a dump drive but ps3 wants fat32...

I do have tiversity setup and can stream from the pc and all but my ps3 is hooked up wireless and at times the buffer is funky (skips or stalls) so its sorta a pain using that, just figured id dump it all to a large drive and usb that into the ps3 and just let it sit there storing all that fun stuff...

You can try putting it onto a USB drive if your computer can boot from a USB drive. GPartd is a version of Linux with the partitioning and that screen you where talking about is it booting up. It sounds to me that either your CDs are bad or the ISO is bad.

If you put the extracted files on a USB drive I would make those the only files on it.

I tried a new download of that iso burned a 3rd boot disc of it and still nogo i/o buffer error loop upon rebooting from cd.

So I hit download.com searched windows free ntfs to fat32, found this program Parted-Magic-LiveCD
Parted Magic LiveCD - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

gave it a shot burned the iso rebooted and bam worked like a charm, took out disc rebooted windows sure enough 232.88gb primary fat32 drive appears all should be good now

Thanks again everyone for helpin me sort this out...