Trying to backup saves from dead PS4 Pro
I'm going to try to keep it as simple and straightforward as possible. Yes I have PS Plus but if I recall correctly I did disable to automatically transfer the save data to cloud. Right now i'm trying to backup old save game data and I figure I could borrow my brother's PS4 Pro for the job, i'm looking to take the save data off my (the dead PS4 Pro) harddrive, and push it over to my same account but on my brother's PS4 Pro then upload it to the cloud so I can have easy transfer whenever I have the chance to get a PS5. I've searched for about 30 minutes on r/playstation and can't find anything. I've watched YouTube videos and nothing worked, i've scoured google and cannot find anything that would help either. I've connected my PS4 drive into my pc and checked Disk Management and there are a bunch of partitions assigned on the drive but none of which I can gain access to. I've tried using SATA to USB 3.0 my old drive to the console but I can't search the drive or find any way to grab it via USB on the PS4 Pro. I feel like I'm running out of options and I'd really like to not lose my 600+ hour save file for Monster Hunter World+Iceborne at the VERY least since I'm somewhat close to getting the Platinum for the expansion Iceborne. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do? Is there a way to read the contents of the drive whether it be on PC or PS4? I'd really like to get some sort of definitive answer instead of "It should be backed up already, you're safe!"
Posted Sep 12, 2021, 7:15 AM UTC
You can't. If you don't have them uploaded through PS Plus and your console is dead, there is no way to retrieve the saves. You could get someone to repair the PS4 Pro and you could get it back if the drive wasn't what died.
From what I gather when it died, my son was playing on it then it black screened, my friend said he smelled something burning (We do group up gaming sessions together). I took it apart and saw a roach cross two pins on the power board in the power supply. There is a scorch mark and I decided I could just jump the lead since everything else looked fine, no other burn marks no other roaches. Still didn't work. I'm not sure if the power supply died completely or if maybe something happened with the processor getting shocked in the process caused it to die as well. I'm thinking about buying a replacement power supply just to see but then again I don't want to be out $100 that could be used for a PS5 so i'm just kicking myself rn.
But no the drive seems to be completely fine based on some tests. The console itself just has no response when trying to turn it on, no lights no beeps etc.
If saves are that important it doesn't seem impossible to get them back. See if you can get that console fixed. And right now go back up saves on the other ps4.....