PS4 Hard Drive Replacement + How To Upload the PlayStation System Software 

Anyone still trying to upgrade or plan to upgrade to a PS5? If you can't try to upgrade to SSD on your PS4! 😁

Thank you! Got my son's PS4 UPGRADED in less than an hour with all data restored! We went with the Crucial SATA SSD and boy is he 😊Happy! Back to Call of Duty, lol

I needed a project so i bought a ps4 from a electronics pawn shop. I tore it down to the motherboard. Made sure the thermal pads were in place. Cleaned the crusty motherboard cpu thermal paste off. Installed new thermal paste. I cleaned the years of dust out of this thing. The fan and vents were caked up with it. I took the cd rom out tore it down and cleaned and lubed everything. I tried installing a 1tb ssd SanDisk and got to where i needed the usb drive. I got a 64g usb drive and at that point didnt know where to go from there. I installed the old hd just so i can run the ps4 to test its function. Runs like new. But this video on how to format the usb and what to download was very informative. Thanks for the video.

Your instructions worked. PS4 website says only to create an update folder. Once I used your instructions to make PS4 folder first... It worked right away. Thank!

Thanks a lot. I followed your instructions and everything worked. Formating the USB took me about 3 hours though but 3 hours is worth waiting than buying another game console!

Thank you my man! I was having trouble with my cousin's PS4 after upgrading the old HDD for a new SSD, I couldn't make it install the update and I was starting to suspect that the USB drive was not compatible, but then I found out I didn't make the ¨PS4¨ folder so the poor thing wasn't able to find it.

Yup I’m planning to upgrade to a PS5 I love your vids they always help me when im in a technical crisis!

I had 2 broken ps4s in my room and I’m using the hard drive from my 1st one they been sitting since I got my ps5 and they were barely even touched before that finally tho I can use the one thank you

Very more enjoyable to do when you watch someone else doing it at the same time. Thx for the Content!

Thank you, my PS4 is now working, and some of my game data is still saved.

Can the old drive be repurposed? I connected it to my PC but can't initialize it. Thanks!

Man oh man, you made this process very easy for me. Keep up the great work. 👍

Thanks for this. I've seen the PS4 Fat support exFat formatting. Is the Slim different in this area?

Okay so mine died. Just got the new hard drive. Bought a Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SSD . I thought you had to format the hard drive itself first then format the USB then download the software onto the USB then over to the PS4. Sorry but I'm not very computer savvy so I'm just trying to figure this all out. Would love it if there's a way to Salvage any of my gameplay information off my old hard drive.

Hey... Cool video. Is it possible to transfer files from the old HDD to the new SSD? My drive is not dead but I just want to Upgrade

do you have any PlayStation 4 pro internal hard drive recommendations for a beginner?

Hey bro, So I have done this before with no issue thanks to this video.BUT today I went an bought a 1T external hard drive.I dont how do it this time round for some reason.I really need help cause its driving me mad.I would really apprciate the help ! Thanks bro

This is old but you can format the hdd to exfat. Exfat is actually recommended.

Is there any way of getting back your old profile I lost everything I have to start fresh 😞?

Hello. I've a question: If I already updated my Ps4 Slim with the latest version (10.01) Can I replace it with a new Hard Disk and install the 9.0 version on in? Thanks a lot for your help.

Thanks bro honestly helped me out so much

Is it possible to take the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 disk drive from my PS4 slim and put it into my Computer directlt and back up all my system stuff that way and put it onto a new disk drive settings and all onto a different PS4?

Hi there. Got a new hdd, did everything like you showed, connecting dualshock 4 usign the cable and starting de ps4. After a while, without pressing any button, it says :" Cannot start the PS4. Connect the DUALSHOCK 4 using the USB cable and then press the PS button " I'm pressing the button, but nothing changes.

So the hard drive you replace with can be any format?

Thanks for the tutorial it worked great for the record I had a huge drive stick so fat32 wouldn’t work so exFat did work fine 😊

Must you use FAT32 on PS4 PRO as well?

Thanks for the help brother, great video so easy 👍

Do I have to do the first part before I download the file from the ps4 website?

Thank you man

Is their something that caused my 2 year old ps4 to get corrupted data? Im a little frustrated since i haven't had the concole for that long.

I am planning to upgrade ps4 pro internal 1tb to 4tb. Is there any issue in the performance of PS? Few people are saying it may impact the on the motherboard. More noisy and heating issue

thank you so much your video was a huge help

is the systemsoftware on the console itself or the hdd? i tried swapping the hdd from an old day1 ps4(glossy piano black) to a slightly younger model. but the younger ps4 said i have to update the swapped hdd to 9.04. i dont want to do that because i dont even know the OS version of the old one. could be useful for modding. does this mean i have to fix the piano ps4 just to get access to the data on the hdd? old ps4 has a broken hdmi port but the warranty seal is intact and i kinda dont want to remove it, those ps4's get rare nowadays. but what you gonna do right? a hdmi port cant be fixed without opening the console. and the younger one has click of death, is it the laser moving up and down or does the clicking come from the hdd?

Hey sir Im having trouble downloading the firmware on my ps4 pro

Mine after preparing installation my ps4 died, can you help me😢

Yeah I have one issue I follow your instructions exactly and my new hard drive won't go into safe mode with my PlayStation 4 I don't have that problem with my old hard drive but my new hard drive refuses to go into safe mode and then my PlayStation says unable to access system storage.. everything I read about that issue simply means that the new hard drive is probably faulty. what do you think?

Hey man, I want to use an old ps4 hardrive in a new ps4 I bought. Is this possible? I have all my stuff on the old ps4 hard drive ?

if i get a hard drive do i have to get the usb file or can i just get the harddrive and play ?

This will help me tomorrow

Dose this update firmware. For example I'm running firmware 9.00 and don't want it to update

Do you lose your games wn u switch the hard drive?

Hey so I’m trying to format into fat32 but it’s only 7% at an hour & 30 mins, is there anyway I can cancel and restart or make or go faster? Or should I just let it run Update: don’t follow this guys step for the usb part, it’s been over 12 hours and it’s still loading at 87% lmao, go into somewhere and have a place download it for you on a usb, game stop, Best Buy, idk man just anything but this 🤣

Thank u man!!!! Thank u

Thanks

Thank you!

Do I need to format the HDD first?

Can it be done without usb

Brilliant. Thank you

Can I just do this on my current hard drive to try and revert back to ver 9.00 I want to jailbreak my ps4

Good thing on W11 is to format FAT32

How is my game still corrupted after changing the hard drive? There’s no way I just spend $65 kit only for the same error to come up….it must be my game drive or something I’ll try to move it to the system storage.

my ps4 shows that there is an error (SU-41350-3) any help??

Can I do that and have my data saved? Because the normal update doesn't work

wyd if it said that the format is too big??? its a brand new thumbdrive and its 64 gb

So im replacing the hard drive but to put all the data back in from the usb do i have to have a pc??

BRB 14:56 Very Helpfull video thx a lot.

Why am I getting an error has occurred (su-30634-6) what does that mean

So in safe mode I tried two controllers and a few different cables they'll all charge. But won't connect

after all that I go to option 7 and get the "cannot find the update file." (SU-41350-3). I have triple checked everything multiple times over and still get this error. I have no clue what to do from here

BRO GREAT VIDEO BUT YOU NEED A BIGGER FLASH DRIVE THAN 1 GIG I BOUGHT A 1 GIG JUST FOR THIS AND THE FILE WILL NOT FIT YOU NEED A FLASH DRIVE BIGGER THAN 1 GIG JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS . thanks

Do I need à hard drive of 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch?

if there anything to do if the drive won't initialize ?

so ive followed all of the steps but when i go to turn the playstation back on it says the same thing from the start, the error code and unable to access the storage, any advice?

Does it need a ps plus?

I followed the tutorial exactly but the ps4 takes forever to prepare the update system software and it gets stuck at 47% please help me

Why not just use refus to format it fat32?

How can i format the USB back to the default one ?

I need help with the format

What about corrupted file,what i can do

Can we downgrade system update?

YOU SIR ARE A GENTLEMEN AND A SCLOOER!!! THANK YOU !!! SO MUCH ...

I dont have computer how do i get the update

I get a new hard drive in ps4 and still i getting error to intallise ps4 and i cant get in ps4 can you help me

i have ps4, wont even read the data on usb. its in fat32 with correct folder, cant update, cant reinstall OS get SU- error. wish I wrote the code down, stuck in safe mode. i think the HDD is dead

heyy i want to downgrade my ps4 from 10.50 to 9.00 by changing firmware does it work ihope someone help me please

my usb ports telling me too many devices connected

nope,say the update file is corrupted(su-30645-8)

I upgraded my ps4 with 2tb but in ps4 still see only 1tb why is that

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gg everything works fine now thx my guy

I tried changing the format but it says “the volume is to big for FAT32” what do I do?

So does this work without a computer??

I have problem since I'm not good with computers etc and i have Windows 11

Hi I have a question which might not get answered but... I tried formating my usb but i get the error "the volume is too big for FAT32" I'm guessing my usb is too big but it's the same size as the one u had '57.3 GB' Any chance to fix this?

My roommate's PS4 stopped. I reinitialized and put in the upload. Now it streams and plays Blu Rays, but games got stuck in download mode. So I'm guessing the hard drive cried uncle. Exhausting possibilities because can't really afford a new machine yet.

mine failed and i did the exact same thing as you

I’m trying to do this on a Chromebook

i did it eelier on fat ps4 i upgraded 500 gb to 1 tb ssd

Sir please help me ,,, I have ps4 fat model,, and i have just one game (tekken 7) in ps4 hard ,,, my problem is,, my ps4 many times go to safe mode options,, and number 6 option ( initialize ps4) only work,,, then u know that,, my ps4 totally all delete data,, and then i will again login own id and download game,,, plz give me a soultion about this? Some ppl saying change the hard ,, so please tell me a soultion??

Can I install a lower version on another hardisk on my PS4 version 11...

hey so I have done everything to try to fix data corruption issues on my ps4 I've initialized, factory reset, updated system software, rebuilt data base and I still get the same issue what could I do?

just right click and format that was way too hard for no reason

*On a PS4 PRO

Mines is saying error turn off ps4

it won’t import my file to fat

anyone else get stuck on please wait

The formatting took ages

weird that you had to use a command prompt to formant wtf XD

Love you bro, thanks so much.

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