1. Access Ps3 Hard Drive On Pc
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“PS4 Cannot access storage system” is a common problem. This problem mainly arises when players handle the internal hard drive in the wrong way. They continuously install, reinstall, connect and remove it without any further second thought. Moreover, they also use the same hard drive over and over again on all kinds of platforms. Problem is, the ps4 won't recognize the drive now for use as a back-up, because it was formatted work as an external ps4 drive. Even worst when I plug the drive into my Windows 10 PC, it's no longer accessible in file explorer to be reformed. It's still recognized if I want to eject a usb device from the task bar, and still shows up under. The WD 8TB hard disk is a reliable and high-capacity external drive that works.

About a week ago my PS4 hard drive was completely inaccessible. I thought to repair the drive but my friend suggested not to do so. I am pretty sure that I can somehow recover media data from my ps4 hard drive. I just need proper solution to restore all of essential data from my PS4 drive. Anyone suggest me standard retrieving tool to accomplish the task. Thanks in advance. Any helpful suggestion can be appreciable.

In fact you are in the right place; recovering ps4 hard drive is really not a risky job. Before going to know the solution understand some issues of Play Station 4 hard drive that may lead to data loss or inaccessibility of drive:

• Blinking blue light of death on its top side
• Disk ejection problems during media file transmission
• Accidentally removing audios, images or video files from PlayStation 4
• Severe malware attack to the hard drive on PlayStation

I am sorry to say that if your external hard drive works fine on a PC, some conflicts are occurring within the PS4 system that prevent it from recognizing the external hard drive. Try first to rebuild PS4 database after deleting newly installed games/apps and updating PS4 system software to the latest version. Right-click on your EHD and select “Uninstall device” from the pop-up menu. When that has finished, unplug the USB cable. Wait a minute, then plug the USB cable back in. Windows should see the.

You really do not need to worry about any kind of data loss situations. Make use of Yodot Hard Drive Recovery program that will help you in restoring data from corrupted PS4 storage disk. This article gives brief note about Yodot utility as well as it provides guidelines to use the application for your concern.

Important features of Yodot application:

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery tool is right choice to recover data from PS4 hard drive on your Windows system. This tool ensures restoration of data from variety of storage devices such as memory card, USB flash drive, iPod, SSD and many other portable storage devices. This retrieving utility supports all hard drive types with FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and EXFAT file system. This tool helps you to restore data from unmountable hard drive, formatted, reformatted, missing, hidden, deleted and damaged drives with ease. In addition it helps you to accomplish ps2 memory card data recovery without any struggle. This utility is capable of recovering all types of files such as documents, spreadsheets, audios, videos, text files, data base files, compressed files and many. It is compatible with different Windows OS such as Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008.

Data extraction from ps4 hard drive using Yodot tool:

Note: Connect ps4 hard drive to healthy Windows computer as external hard drive then follow below steps to get back data.

• Install and run Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software on your PC
• On main screen select “Partition Recovery” option then it will move to next screen automatically
• In next window select PS4 drive from list of available drives and click on “Next”
• Later, choose file types which you want to get back and click “Next” to initiate scan
• It will take few minutes to scan, then you can sort restored files either in “Data View” or “File Type View”
• Finally, save retrieved files in target destination (To do this purchase license key of the product)

Recommended suggestions:

• Maintain regular backup of data from Play Station 4
• Keep your ps4 drive free from virus infection

FAT32 and exFAT are the supported file system for Sony PS4, so if you're now using NTFS in Windows 10, it's time to the format job or just convert it FAT32 without data loss. There're many ways to format hard drive, or external hard drive, we can do it in file explorer, Windows Disk Management and third party disk managing software. We'll guide on each method for your reference.

NOTE: Format operation will cause all your data loss, so it's essential to do a backup before proceed, and restore them after formatted to another file system.

Tip: exFat is only supported on MBR disk, if you're using GPT disk, try to create a large FAT32 partition instead

#1. Format to exFAT in File Explorer

• 1. When you plugged in the external drive, Press Win+E to open file explorer, if it shows Quick Access in Windows 10, do like this to change it to File Explorer, like we get used to it in Windows 7.
• 2. Now Right-click on the external disk, and select 'Format';
• 3. In the new window, select exFAT from the File System dropdown menu and leave Quick Format checked; click Start to Format.
• 4. Restore the backed up files to this disk again, may spend some time according to the file size.

#2, Format to exFAT in Disk Management

• 1. Press Windows + R to open Run box and type: diskmgmt.msc, hit Enter and Disk Management will show;
• 2. Check the disk map in the main interface to see if the external hard drive shows unallocated space or volume;
• 3. If it shows unallocated space, right-click on it and click New Simple Volume, follow the wizard to create new partition, click NEXT slowly and stop at the Format Partition window. Now it's time to click exFAT under File system option.
• 4. If the external disk shows volume label in Disk Management, just click Format… from the right-click menu after you backed up private data.
• 5. In the popup window, we select exFAT and start to format.

#3, CMD to format NTFS to exFAT

• 1. Right-click on Start Menu of Windows 10 and select Command Prompt (Admin);
• 2. Input: format d:/FS:exFAT and hit Enter;

#4, Convert NTFS to FAT32 without data loss

Format to exFAT is one method to use PS4, after backing up and restoring data to the external disk, may take some time but won't meet the limitation of FAT32 file system, which is 4GB maximum size of single /individual file. But if you don't want to spend time on making a backup and restoring after formatted, you can do a conversion on NTFS file system, just convert it to FAT32, another supported file system for PS4, with Partition Expert. Besides, single file maximum size gets over 4GB is not common in small sized games in PS4. Steps to convert to FAT32 for PS4:

Access Ps3 Hard Drive On Pc

1. Download the portable bootable partition software from here:
2. Run it to show disk-map on your computer, still the same, check the status of the external disk: unallocated space or single volume or uninitialized?
3. For unallocated space disk, we click Create Volume and select FAT32;
   • For single volume disk, click the partition and click Convert to FAT32
   • For uninitialized disk, we click Initialize and Create Volume to make FAT32 partition

Summary

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To summarize those methods about, if there's data on the source disk, the convert method is better, which is both time saving and data securing. You many argue that the transfer speed of USB 3.0 is acceptable to save data on other storage space, that's true, and backup is indeed a good habit of keep data well managed, it's up to you to backup then format or backup then convert, since everything is backed up, why not give the convert method a try

The following operating system is also supported even the page is guiding of Windows 10:

• Windows 8.1
• Windows 8
• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP

Besides, Windows Server Systems (from 2003 to 2016) are all supported by Macrorit Partition Expert Server Edition