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PS4 HDD Upgrade - Which HDD?
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Came home this evening, didn't even change the USB drive and it worked first go!
Now my problem is getting the 280 gb of files off my laptop and onto the portable hard drive.
How is the backup on your laptop? You backed up PS4 to external drive, copied backup to laptop & then deleted off external drive?Getting constant errors even though copying from the hard drive to the laptop last night was no problem. Anyone know what could work for a large transfer? Could I connect ps4 directly to the laptop with an ethernet cable?
This won't work. Your laptop uses a filesystem, maybe NTFS, that the PS4 doesn't support. Similarly, the PS4 uses a custom filesystem that your laptop doesn't support. When you put the PS4 hard drive in the external caddy, your laptop could see it but couldn't read it (kinda like it's written in a different language). That is one reason why you cannot just take the hard drive out of one and put it in the other. Similarly, connecting them with ethernet won't work because of that, plus other reasons. You can't easily change the filesystem (called formatting) of a drive without losing all its data.
The PS4 can only read external drives with filesystems called FAT32 or exFAT AFAIK. You need to make sure your external drive or USB sticks are formatted with either of these (FAT32 only supports max 4GB file size so choose exFAT if you have files >4GB).
As for why you were able to put files on your laptop yesterday but can't now, could be any number of reasons, I've no idea right now
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golfcaptain wrote: »How is the backup on your laptop? You backed up PS4 to external drive, copied backup to laptop & then deleted off external drive?
This won't work. Your laptop uses a filesystem, maybe NTFS, that the PS4 doesn't support. Similarly, the PS4 uses a custom filesystem that your laptop doesn't support. When you put the PS4 hard drive in the external caddy, your laptop could see it but couldn't read it (kinda like it's written in a different language). That is one reason why you cannot just take the hard drive out of one and put it in the other. Similarly, connecting them with ethernet won't work because of that, plus other reasons. You can't easily change the filesystem (called formatting) of a drive without losing all its data.
The PS4 can only read external drives with filesystems called FAT32 or exFAT AFAIK. You need to make sure your external drive or USB sticks are formatted with either of these (FAT32 only supports max 4GB file size so choose exFAT if you have files >4GB).
As for why you were able to put files on your laptop yesterday but can't now, could be any number of reasons, I've no idea right now
Thanks for that, good explanation too.
Yeah I had done a backup from the ps4 to the portable harddrive and I had formatted it to exfat and it copied over last night.
I didn't try to read the file on the laptop and Windows 10 won't give an exfat option so I'm stuck with fat32 and using a copying utility now to try and get the backup onto an external drive, I should have just had two drives yesterday and I would have had no problem. Only borrowed one today but the damage was done
You live and learn I guess. Ill just reinstall everything at this point as it is a very slow exercise to try and move data back to the the drive I had.
The joys of it! No fear a cross over cable would do the trick like in the old Xbox days 0 -
I didn't try to read the file on the laptop and Windows 10 won't give an exfat option...
That's weird, it definitely should give you that option. That's a separate issue right there though From what I've heard, Xbox has always had the edge in terms of stuff like this. Anyway, good luck! 0 -
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Hiya so I'm getting the ps4 pro tomorrow but I'm going to swap out the 1TB it has for a 2TB one...
Can anyone point me in the right direction of what the best reasonable hard drive would be to get? One that will do the best job without having to shell out hundreds for a good one...i think max 120euro would be my budget...i looked in currys , argos and harvey norman while i was in town earlier but didnt know which one to choose , any help would be appreciated 0 -
mcgrath1992 wrote: »Hiya so I'm getting the ps4 pro tomorrow but I'm going to swap out the 1TB it has for a 2TB one...
Can anyone point me in the right direction of what the best reasonable hard drive would be to get? One that will do the best job without having to shell out hundreds for a good one...i think max 120euro would be my budget...i looked in currys , argos and harvey norman while i was in town earlier but didnt know which one to choose , any help would be appreciated
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