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PS4 Bachup and restore question

Spydermag68

Spydermag68

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I am going to upgrade my PS4 harddrive to a 2TB drive.

I have a backup use external drive that has enough room to back up the old drive but there is some other data that I do not want to get wiped out.

Can I use backup and restore from the PS4 and keep the old data? I cannot find the answer anywhere.

thanks!
 
The drive needs to be formatted as either Fat32 or exFAT I believe for the PS4 to see it. I don't remember the PS4 erasing the drive during the backup, just creating a folder with the data but it has been a long time.
 
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I did a full restore of both my PS4 and XB1 when I upgraded to the Pro and X and I don't remember 100% but I thought that it needed it's own partition on the PS4, or it created one. I know the X1 is like that too, and the X1 actually needed a full HDD. You couldn't use a partition HDD and use one partition. But for the PS4 I just can't remember exactly because it wasn't as much of a pain in the ass as the X1 was since I only owned 1 big HDD and I was trading in both my X1 and PS4 to get the Pro.

I'm pretty confident though that if it would wipe the whole drive it would have a warning prompt before it actually did it, so I'd just try to get to that point if I were you. I do remember that the PS4 will tell you if it recognizes the drive before it can even do anything with it, if it's already formatted.
 
purbeast0 said:
I did a full restore of both my PS4 and XB1 when I upgraded to the Pro and X and I don't remember 100% but I thought that it needed it's own partition on the PS4, or it created one. I know the X1 is like that too, and the X1 actually needed a full HDD. You couldn't use a partition HDD and use one partition. But for the PS4 I just can't remember exactly because it wasn't as much of a pain in the ass as the X1 was since I only owned 1 big HDD and I was trading in both my X1 and PS4 to get the Pro.

I'm pretty confident though that if it would wipe the whole drive it would have a warning prompt before it actually did it, so I'd just try to get to that point if I were you. I do remember that the PS4 will tell you if it recognizes the drive before it can even do anything with it, if it's already formatted.
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I do remember the PS4 giving me a warning about the format of the drive. I think I had an ntfs drive.
 
I don't remember what the console had to re-download after I upgraded my drive (launch console) but I think I retained all of my installed games and saves and whatnot.

I feel like there are a ton of guides out there on this; even before Sony made it even easier to do. I haven't tried with any newer consoles though.
 
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