USB File System is Unsupported

[Nakamichi]

i hooked up my external USB HDD to my PC to read out the SMART values using Crystaldiskinfo.
To see the drive it asked me to chose between MBR or GPT, i went with the default option, GPT i think.

Now my PS5 no longer recognizes it. Is there any way to save my Data?

 

[godreborn]

i hooked up my external USB HDD to my PC to read out the SMART values using Crystaldiskinfo.
To see the drive it asked me to chose between MBR or GPT, i went with the default option, GPT i think.

Now my PS5 no longer recognizes it. Is there any way to save my Data?

maybe a recovery tool, but it's most likely lost now. did it have your games on it?

 

[Fishaman P]

No.

 

[Nakamichi]

maybe a recovery tool, but it's most likely lost now. did it have your games on it?

yeah, around 250 of them

 

[godreborn]

damn, unfortunately, you'll probably have to redownload them. never initialize a ps4, 5 ext. storage, and certainly don't format it. I'm sorry.

 

[Nakamichi]

I didnt format it, nor did i create a file system on it or anything. Just chose to treat it as GPT

 

[godreborn]

I didnt format it, nor did i create a file system on it or anything. Just chose to treat it as GPT

it may be possible using clonezilla iirc. you'll have to clone the drive on to another drive, then inject sector 0 of the hdd after having been formatted by the ps5. I don't know for sure if this works, but that's the basic rundown of how to fix this with the ps3.

 

[Nakamichi]

it may be possible using clonezilla iirc. you'll have to clone the drive on to another drive, then inject sector 0 of the hdd after having been formatted by the ps5. I don't know for sure if this works, but that's the basic rundown of how to fix this with the ps3.

Thanks, but the drive is 8tb, cant clone it anywhere. Guess im SOL.

 

[godreborn]

yeah, I think the drives have to be either the same or the same size as part of sector 0 is where the computer reads the size of the drive.

 

[Nakamichi]

Alright, thank you.

 

[impeeza]

i hooked up my external USB HDD to my PC to read out the SMART values using Crystaldiskinfo.
To see the drive it asked me to chose between MBR or GPT, i went with the default option, GPT i think.

Now my PS5 no longer recognizes it. Is there any way to save my Data?

No way to recover because when you initialize the disk on PC you did remove from disk the information about filesystem and allocation tables

 

[Nakamichi]

No way to recover because when you initialize the disk on PC you did remove from disk the information about filesystem and allocation tables

thank you

 

[godreborn]

the only drive out of the big three that can be formatted is a media drive with the series x. I don't know if have one of those, but you could use it with retroarch.

 

[Hayato213]

I didnt format it, nor did i create a file system on it or anything. Just chose to treat it as GPT

Not suppose to initialize extended format HDD.

 

[Nakamichi]

the only drive out of the big three that can be formatted is a media drive with the series x. I don't know if have one of those, but you could use it with retroarch.

i just wanted to read out the SMART values to check that the drive is fine and ruined it.
i installed over 250 games from physical disks onto it before i stopped updating after 4.03.

 

[godreborn]

I think it's possible to read the drive without initializing it, but I've never had this issue, so I don't know for 100% certainty. you can get the location of the physical drive in powershell iirc.

 

[Nakamichi]

I think it's possible to read the drive without initializing it, but I've never had this issue, so I don't know for 100% certainty. you can get the location of the physical drive in powershell iirc.

thank you, but i dont think im gonna be using the drive anymore, kinda pointless now

 

[CoolMe]

I think the way the PS5 formats the drive is unique to it (same with other consoles), and the moment you chose GPT it changed it, and now it's corrupt. I don't think any amount recovery software tinkering can get the hdd to its previous state, or any of the stored files etc.

 

[Nakamichi]

I think the way the PS5 formats the drive is unique to it (same with other consoles), and the moment you chose GPT it changed it, and now it's corrupt. I don't think any amount recovery software tinkering can get the hdd to its previous state, or any of the stored files etc.

thank you

 

[godreborn]

I think the way the PS5 formats the drive is unique to it (same with other consoles), and the moment you chose GPT it changed it, and now it's corrupt. I don't think any amount recovery software tinkering can get the hdd to its previous state, or any of the stored files etc.

it actually uses the same formatting method as the ps4 afaik, because someone was able to install a ps5 game to the external hdd, then examine what's going on with the format on the ps4. there's now four packages you have to install instead of one.