Poll of the Day > Anyone have ps4 external drive experience?

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So my friend gave me a 1 tb Seagate of some kind around thanksgiving. It has worked just fine until today. I set my ps4 to rest mode and when I tried to wake it up nothing happened, so I had to unplug the system to get it to restart.

Now the external drive doesn't show up in the connected devices on ps4.

It does however show up in device manager on my pc. But not in disk manager, so I can't reformat it.

Is there a fix for this?
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No experience with PS4 but If it's anything like a PS3 hard drive, it might be using it's own file system and might not be able to be read by your OS.
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trodi_911 posted...

No experience with PS4 but If it's anything like a PS3 hard drive, it might be using it's own file system and might not be able to be read by your OS.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. It probably needs a recognizable partition to reformat.

I don't remember having any problems transferring files to my computer from a ps3 internal hard drive using a sata to usb adapter.
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This happens to me every time I lose power while my PS4 is in rest mode. I don't know a definite fix but when I unplug and plug the hardrive like five times, it usually starts working again. Sometimes I restart the PS4 while it's unplugged, then plug it back in and it'll work. It's a very wonky thing.
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SilentSeph posted...

This happens to me every time I lose power while my PS4 is in rest mode. I don't know a definite fix but when I unplug and plug the hardrive like five times, it usually starts working again. Sometimes I restart the PS4 while it's unplugged, then plug it back in and it'll work. It's a very wonky thing.

Hmm I tried restarting, but with the drive plugged in. I'll give a restart with it removed.
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I don't think I can be of much help, but I will note that I've had more bad experiences with Seagate products than with Western Digital products. I've got a WD external hard drive connected to my PS4 and haven't had any problems with it, although I've never had to deal with losing power to my console while it's in rest mode.