Hacking Ps4 500gb (not silm) 6.72, want to update 500gb to 2tb - best way help please!

godzillafan · Jan 22, 2021

HI All,

Got a little lucky and managed to pick up a PS4 500Gb (not silm) with 5.05 on it.

I updated it to 6.72 with the help of youtube vids.

I want to upgrade the 500gb to a 2tb.

Can anyone confirm the easy and safe method to do this, in regards to back up to a external add the new HDD and add the bits to get the console working!

Happy with any links or guides.

Cheers

Prb · Jan 22, 2021

godzillafan said:
HI All,

Got a little lucky and managed to pick up a PS4 500Gb (not silm) with 5.05 on it.

I updated it to 6.72 with the help of youtube vids.

I want to upgrade the 500gb to a 2tb.

Can anyone confirm the easy and safe method to do this, in regards to back up to a external add the new HDD and add the bits to get the console working!

Happy with any links or guides.

Cheers

It's not that hard mate
Put new hd in ps4
And run the update
That's all I did
Btw why did you update from 5.05 ?

magico29 · Jan 22, 2021

Get a 8tb internal Seagate barracuda with ps4 data bank from Nyko.

godzillafan · Jan 22, 2021

Prb said:
It's not that hard mate
Put new hd in ps4
And run the update
That's all I did
Btw why did you update from 5.05 ?

So, I am guessing, PS4 HDD backup system (game saves profile etc) to my 500gb external (plugged in usb)
Take the old HDD out
Format the 2tb (I have a spare Toshia V73600-H 2tb sitting on my desk) and put that into the PS4

This is where I need to double check (not sure, what update)

Do I get the 6.72 firmware I used to update from the 5.05 and use that as the PS4 setup.
Once running then do the backup back to the hdd 2tb

When I bought it, iy came with the 5.05 - I went to 6.72 mainly to play some of the newer games (which stated 6.72 only) and I was hearing it was getting more stable and a 7+ update could on the cards shortly.

Was also very unsure how well the 5.05 was running from the chap I bought it from, so, rather than mess around go to the 6.72 and go from there!

So far, its been fine for us, so hence the update HDD

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magico29 said:
Get a 8tb internal Seagate barracuda with ps4 data bank from Nyko.

Carrying on from reply to earlier post - I have looked into this and do have a spare 4TB in the house! - I could do this route too, but I have the PS4 standing up (just need to make space to have it flat).

But will still have the same question - how to update the most safe way!

Hayato213 · Jan 22, 2021

godzillafan said:
So, I am guessing, PS4 HDD backup system (game saves profile etc) to my 500gb external (plugged in usb)
Take the old HDD out
Format the 2tb (I have a spare Toshia V73600-H 2tb sitting on my desk) and put that into the PS4

This is where I need to double check (not sure, what update)

Do I get the 6.72 firmware I used to update from the 5.05 and use that as the PS4 setup.
Once running then do the backup back to the hdd 2tb

When I bought it, iy came with the 5.05 - I went to 6.72 mainly to play some of the newer games (which stated 6.72 only) and I was hearing it was getting more stable and a 7+ update could on the cards shortly.

Was also very unsure how well the 5.05 was running from the chap I bought it from, so, rather than mess around go to the 6.72 and go from there!

So far, its been fine for us, so hence the update HDD

You need to use the recovery update file, the one you used to update from 5.05 to 6.72 won't work as you need to reinstall OS.

godzillafan · Jan 22, 2021

Hayato213 said:
You need to use the recovery update file, the one you used to update from 5.05 to 6.72 won't work as you need to reinstall OS.

Ah, now we are getting somewhere, so what's this file and where to get it?

As I am very unsure about the history of the PS4, I don't know what was originally on it firmware wise, just it came with 5.05 and I update to 6.72.

This is the area, I am a little unclear about - some vids i watched make it like it a 5 mins job.

Is there a tried and tested link to a vid which everyone swears by! Just want to take my time on this one to do it first as I want to clean the PS4 (another thread) before I go ahead with it all!

godreborn · Jan 22, 2021

godzillafan said:
Ah, now we are getting somewhere, so what's this file and where to get it?

As I am very unsure about the history of the PS4, I don't know what was originally on it firmware wise, just it came with 5.05 and I update to 6.72.

This is the area, I am a little unclear about - some vids i watched make it like it a 5 mins job.

Is there a tried and tested link to a vid which everyone swears by! Just want to take my time on this one to do it first as I want to clean the PS4 (another thread) before I go ahead with it all!

https://darthsternie.net/ps4-firmwares/

edit: btw, make sure it's 9.5mm or it won't fit.

godzillafan · Jan 22, 2021

godreborn said:
https://darthsternie.net/ps4-firmwares/

edit: btw, make sure it's 9.5mm or it won't fit.

So to double check i get the correct (recovery) firmware, do I use the 5.05 or the 6.72?

I guess that will end up on a usb stick and put that in to do the firmware update

godreborn · Jan 22, 2021

godzillafan said:
So to double check i get the correct (recovery) firmware, do I use the 5.05 or the 6.72?

I guess that will end up on a usb stick and put that in to do the firmware update

Depends on which firmware you're on.

godzillafan · Jan 22, 2021

godreborn said:
Depends on which firmware you're on.

I updated to 6.72 and using that at the moment

godreborn · Jan 22, 2021

Then use recovery 6.72.

godzillafan · Jan 22, 2021

godreborn said:
Then use recovery 6.72.

Top stuff, I guess that's settle.

So
1. backup HDD to external HDD
2. put new 2TB in
3. use recovery firmware
4. then send backup back into the 2tb from the external

I will also check its 9.5mm

godreborn · Jan 22, 2021

Yes. I never backed up my hdd, just saves that I put on another account.

godzillafan · Jan 22, 2021

godreborn said:
Yes. I never backed up my hdd, just saves that I put on another account.

Just really need the user and games I have on the HDD and saves. Dont have a online account, so aslong as the games and save and mira 6.72 is on there, that's good enough

godreborn · Jan 22, 2021

I don't know about games or mira. if it's fake pkg'd games, they may not appear, since they don't with a database rebuild. and, I had to redo the exploit, caching and what not, after formatting the hdd.

godzillafan · Jan 22, 2021

godreborn said:
I don't know about games or mira. if it's fake pkg'd games, they may not appear, since they don't with a database rebuild. and, I had to redo the exploit, caching and what not, after formatting the hdd.

Look like, I will add all the extras afterwards, but at least I can get the ball running on this

godzillafan · Jan 25, 2021

HI All,

Latest update from my cleaning thread (PS4, stripped and cleaned with new thermal paste) and back to this transfer!

The PS4 now clean and running quiet, the PS4 data bank has turned up. I thought, I will try my luck with that as my £10 offer from the bay brand new was accepted and its here now.

I have a spare 3.5 1TB WD drive to do the test (will move onto 4tb, once the games stack up and this all works)!

Followed everything above and ended up with steps below

1. backup HDD to external HDD (about 3hrs I guess, used about 300GB)
2. put new 1TB into databank
3. use recovery firmware 6.72 and re-setup the PS4
4. then send backup back into the 1tb from the external

The backup on step 1. Will it copy all the mira exploits etc and the games which are on the HDD in the backup. As the backup mentions app etc (hopefully everything).

I just want to be 1000% sure that it works and I dont need to go through all the mira lark again!

Anyone done the above with sending mira 6.72 and all the apps to external and then back to a new HDD, is this above 4 steps enough or will there be more steps.

Godreborn mentions he redid everything, So, do I assume that all the mira etc is all lost or it does not work!

Will be a nightmare as I dont want to lose all the game saves from the pkg games which I load up after I open the mira 6.72.

Plan to allocated a day (well on and off, leaving the process run in the back ground)!

Hope that makes sense!

Cheers

laz305 · Jan 25, 2021

godreborn · Jan 25, 2021

godzillafan said:
HI All,

Latest update from my cleaning thread (PS4, stripped and cleaned with new thermal paste) and back to this transfer!

The PS4 now clean and running quiet, the PS4 data bank has turned up. I thought, I will try my luck with that as my £10 offer from the bay brand new was accepted and its here now.

I have a spare 3.5 1TB WD drive to do the test (will move onto 4tb, once the games stack up and this all works)!

Followed everything above and ended up with steps below

1. backup HDD to external HDD (about 3hrs I guess, used about 300GB)
2. put new 1TB into databank
3. use recovery firmware 6.72 and re-setup the PS4
4. then send backup back into the 1tb from the external

The backup on step 1. Will it copy all the mira exploits etc and the games which are on the HDD in the backup. As the backup mentions app etc (hopefully everything).

I just want to be 1000% sure that it works and I dont need to go through all the mira lark again!

Anyone done the above with sending mira 6.72 and all the apps to external and then back to a new HDD, is this above 4 steps enough or will there be more steps.

Godreborn mentions he redid everything, So, do I assume that all the mira etc is all lost or it does not work!

Will be a nightmare as I dont want to lose all the game saves from the pkg games which I load up after I open the mira 6.72.

Plan to allocated a day (well on and off, leaving the process run in the back ground)!

Hope that makes sense!

Cheers

yeah, I had to redo the exploit and cache, but I formatted my drive on a sata station, then put it back in. I managed to get my saves back, all of them. I didn't want a banned account, which is why I did that. I lost games, which weren't many, and I had a backup of all of them, and I also lost trophies. you may lose trophies from a normal backup as well, because I think the normal procedure is to redownload them from psn, which obviously can't be done.

godzillafan · Jan 25, 2021

laz305 said:

CHeers for the vid, i think will be the one to help me the most.

godreborn said:
yeah, I had to redo the exploit and cache, but I formatted my drive on a sata station, then put it back in. I managed to get my saves back, all of them. I didn't want a banned account, which is why I did that. I lost games, which weren't many, and I had a backup of all of them, and I also lost trophies. you may lose trophies from a normal backup as well, because I think the normal procedure is to redownload them from psn, which obviously can't be done.

I was hoping to get it done with no need to get the exploit back on it from the start. I guess, worse case would be to watch a video guide again and get it back on the PC.

The saves, I am hoping that the backup will transfer everything on the current system to the external and be a simple transfer back.

Really only worried about 1 game, which the wee man taken too, Snowrunner - nightmare to start that again!

I guess, I need to take the plunge and get it done!

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