Hacking Upgrading my jailbroken 5.05 PS4 Pro's internal 1TB hard drive to an internal 2TB drive. How?

[Adam512]

be a strong friend, it can also theoretically happen that soon the CFW will be at 5.05 but not at 6.72 (new vulnerability found). Would you be happy for that update then? I doubt it.

At 5.05 everything works fine (external drive).

 

[Hammyface]

At 5.05 everything works fine (external drive).

Is there a good guide on using an external drive with 5.05?

I keep reading stuff and keep hearing don't bother with external on 5.05.

 

[mschumacher69]

Is there a good guide on using an external drive with 5.05?

I keep reading stuff and keep hearing don't bother with external on 5.05.

I wouldn't recommend going the external route because it requires a lot of setup and maintenance and might break when you upgrade your firmware for a higher exploit.

If 2 TB is enough for you, just backup, replace your HDD and restore.

 

[Leeful]

Another suggestion, and I'm probably on my own with this is to just have a few games installed on your PS4 at one time.
Keep all your pkgs on a USB HDD and just install them when you want to play them.

Your PS4 will run a lot smoother and load faster and if you get a kernel panic it hardly takes any time at all to scan the HDD after a reboot.

I have been doing this for over a year and I will never go back to filling my PS4 HDD with games ever again.

Like I said I'm probably on my own with this but that is what I do.

 

[Rynsqrs]

Another suggestion, and I'm probably on my own with this is to just have a few games installed on your PS4 at one time.
Keep all your pkgs on a USB HDD and just install them when you want to play them.

Your PS4 will run a lot smoother and load faster and if you get a kernel panic it hardly takes any time at all to scan the HDD after a reboot.

I have been doing this for over a year and I will never go back to filling my PS4 HDD with games ever again.


Like I said I'm probably on my own with this but that is what I do.

You're not alone @Leeful, I have my fpkg's stored on my network hdd, takes 30 mins to transfer to USB if that, better to install a few at a time rather than a whole library.

 

[Leeful]

You're not alone @Leeful, I have my fpkg's stored on my network hdd, takes 30 mins to transfer to USB if that, better to install a few at a time rather than a whole library.

Thanks for the reply. Good to know I'm not the only one who does this.

 

[subcon959]

Thanks for the reply. Good to know I'm not the only one who does this.

I'm gonna be replacing my 1TB HDD with a small SSD so I just have a handful of games that I actually play regularly on there.

 

[mschumacher69]

Another suggestion, and I'm probably on my own with this is to just have a few games installed on your PS4 at one time.
Keep all your pkgs on a USB HDD and just install them when you want to play them.

Your PS4 will run a lot smoother and load faster and if you get a kernel panic it hardly takes any time at all to scan the HDD after a reboot.

I have been doing this for over a year and I will never go back to filling my PS4 HDD with games ever again.

Like I said I'm probably on my own with this but that is what I do.

Yeah that's a good suggestion as well. Too bad I only realized that after I had already replaced my HDD and installed most of my games. But if I get to do it again, I would only install a few games at a time and 500 GB would be enough for that I guess.

 

[Hammyface]

I guess I need to convert all my games back to PKGs. Is there an easy way to do this?

Man I wish this were as simple as it were on the PS3! Just plug in an external USB drive and be done with it!

 

[godreborn]

I guess I need to convert all my games back to PKGs. Is there an easy way to do this?

Man I wish this were as simple as it were on the PS3! Just plug in an external USB drive and be done with it!

they're already packages. the meta is decrypted from the pkg, and the pkg is renamed to app.pkg. I think the md5 is even the same, so you may be able to extract the pkgs from the system. I don't know if it will work, but it's worth a try.

 

[Leeful]

I guess I need to convert all my games back to PKGs. Is there an easy way to do this?
Man I wish this were as simple as it were on the PS3! Just plug in an external USB drive and be done with it!

they're already packages. the meta is decrypted from the pkg, and the pkg is renamed to app.pkg. I think the md5 is even the same, so you may be able to extract the pkgs from the system. I don't know if it will work, but it's worth a try.

Lapy's tool does exactly that.

Easy PKG Extractor 1.05

(this app extracts or copy fpkg from the PS4 to a USB device, does not dump anything)

* this is only for FW 6.72 !!!
if you stay at 5.05 use the previous versionhttps://t.co/n6OZgv8vjD

if someone tries it tell me... pic.twitter.com/eEvb7EGjlZ

— Lapy (@Lapy05575948) July 17, 2020

 

[mschumacher69]

I guess I need to convert all my games back to PKGs. Is there an easy way to do this?

Man I wish this were as simple as it were on the PS3! Just plug in an external USB drive and be done with it!

You can pull them via FTP, read the guide which I linked you to and even copied and pasted for you.

But if you just want to transfer your data to your new HDD, use the PS4's built in backup & restore utility, it does transfer your fpkgs as confirmed by some users who've tried it here.

 

[Hammyface]

Thank you all so much for the help. Best. Forum. Ever.

 

[cost69er]

So basically you are insulting us for not knowing yet you don't know either if it works on 6.72 or not. Learn to explain things to people without insulting them would be a nice tip especially when you don't even know 100% if your answer is right either smh.

omg bro toughen up that skin!! someone get him a cryin towel!!

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Hey all. Long-time member but I still have a pretty noobish question.

I have a 1TB drive that came with my PS4 Pro but it's full. It looks like upgrading the external storage is a huge pain in the butt on a jailbroken PS4 so I decided to just buy a 2TB 2.5" SSD. I really wanted a 4TB platter drive but apparently they still haven't figured out how to make those 9.5mm yet!

Anyway I was wondering what the method I am supposed to use to transfer all my hacked stuff over to the new drive. There's a guide on Sony's website that says you need a USB stick with a "transfer version of the firmware" and an external 1TB drive to do this. However, I am nervous for obvious reasons of doing it the official Sony way because I have no idea if it will transfer over my hacks and installed games or not.

What is the GBATemp recommended way to upgrade the 1TB drive on the PS4 Pro? I am on 5.05.

As always, thank you so kindly in advance for any help you can provide!

Here is what worked for me...Format external as extended....move all the games to extended...change the hd(i put a 2tb firecuda) than move all the games back to internal,Yes the games wont start from external but it still allowed me to move them there than back to internal..and for the future absolutely save the pkg files,Hope it works for you..Star wars pro edition 6.72

 

[Hammyface]

Just wanted to say the official Sony method worked just fine for me.

 

[mschumacher69]

Just wanted to say the official Sony method worked just fine for me.

That's what I've been trying to say all along...

@KiiWii wanna update the AIO Guide to indicate that the built-in ps4 backup & restore utility does backup/restore fpkgs?