Disk on ps4 wont show up to download

User Info: vegastein. Accepted Answer. It could be an issue with the site, and all you can do is try later or on another day, which is what it sounds like. If you want to try something, you might try 'Rebuilding Database', an option in Safe mode.

Here is the site that explains the options and what they do: support. By the time you do that the site might be working again. If you want additional feedback you could post a question on the Board where more people will see the question compared to the Answers section that doesn't get a lot of visitors.

Good Luck. User Info: Zalibidas. In the windows 10 search bar, type create and format. Click the only thing that shows up. Does anything appear in that menu, to be formatted? When I right click on the drive to initialize it, I get the option for either master boot record, or gpt guid partition table.

User Info: Orestes Then right click and initialize it. Orestes posted GPT is the modern standard. Or because it gives you a bit more space on smaller drives. Only reason to go GPT is for larger drives. More topics from this board Resident evil 3 save file location? Side Quest 1 Answer I think my games running slower than they should, why? General 3 Answers How can I rename a sim in the sims 2? Tech Support 1 Answer.

Ask A Question. You get a data recovery software to recover all your lost data. This article might help you find a good FREE data recovery software that might help. Hi, so my 1TB external storage randomly stopped working. Also when I go to volumes nothing shoes up about the capacity etc.

Then I pressed populate and now my extended storage is beeping like crazy. Can you check again your external hard drive on your PC? Tell me whether it shows up there or not. I got it to work last night, formatted the storage, then tried downloading 2 games. One of them kept freezing, so I decided to try and delete the game. But my whole system would freeze. My system tells me to format the extended storage, when I go to do so.

The FULL format would override the bad sectors and make your hard drive usable again. Try implementing the tip illustrated in my previous comment to you. Hope this would fix your problem. Try to turn off your PS4 completely shut down , unplug the power cable of PS4, and finally connect the external hard drive via the other USB port.

Make sure you connect it tightly and the USB connector is fully crammed inside the port. Make sure also the second end of the cable is properly fixed into your external hard drive USB port. Now restart your PS4 while the external hard drive is connected to it.

Does it resolve your problem? Either a faulty drive or a faulty USB cable. Connect it to a PC and check whether it works or not. Restart the ps4 normally, reformat the expanded drive, delete any notifications on the update and then continue to redownload latest update. If this doesnt work go to safe mode by holding down the power button then select rebuild database and go from there. Most likely doesnt have anything to do with the harddrive the ps4 system tends to mess up in the middle of its updates.

I have just bought a Seagate 2tb hdd and I got it formatted and loaded games on it, started playing red dead redemption 2 and after a few hours my ps4 froze up and I held down the power button until it reset and not it tells me my hdd needs to be repaired, I have tried numerous times to repair it and it worked one time so I tried to move my games off of it and the ps4 started moving the game then it said it stopped and I got a message saying it was disconnected improperly.

I plugged the hdd into my laptop and it works fine, but when I click on properties I can find the tool tab to run the error check. I need help. Download SeaTools to fix any error in your Seagate external hard drive. It can immensely help in your situation. I have the Seagate 5TB external hard drive.

One night i was playing my game when my cat ran by and accidentally disconnected my cable that connects to the USB. Connecting it to my computer though WILL recognize it.

I have a friend hopefully coming over tomorrow with his PlayStation so I can try connecting to his console. Try to connect your external hard drive to the other port and see whether it works or not.

If not, turn off PS4 and remove the power cable from its socket. Wait 30 seconds, connect your external hard drive to your other USB port, and connect your PS4 power cable plug to its socket again. Now, turn on PS4 and see whether it recognizes it or not. Download SeaTools and install it on your PC, then perform a full maintenance on your external hard drive.

Hope this will eventually fix the problem. Plus it has its own drawbacks that hold back many users from authorizing it as their first option. Pull it out from the external enclosure and connect it to a PC. My seagate ps4 game drive 2tb is not getting recognized when I plug it into my PlayStation.

The light will not turn on either on the gamedrive. My computer will detect it but not my PlayStation. You either need to update the PS4 system software to the latest version, rebuild your PS4 database, or just reset it to factory settings. If it does, come back to me and I will provide you with solutions. My sons 2tb Seagate external drive stop working. I just bought it like 2 months ago, I will go tomorrow to game stop and see it I can get a new one…..

Just do that and tell me if it works or not. I was wondering if this product even works on the ps4 and if not what product will. Should I return it and buy the same hard drive?

Is it a defective drive? Yes I am. Just read the reviews on that drive on Amazon and see how many guys said it worked well for them on PS4. Probably a long shot but here we go. Turned out to be a bad PCB Board. I replaced the board and plugged it in to my laptop. Now, tested it on MY PS4. Works just fine on my PS4, got the error message that it was disconnected properly from the system and blah blah blah.

Repaired it on my PS4 and it works just fine on my PS4. Okay, restart, nothing. Full power down, nothing. Now, even if you buy a new external hard drive from the same brand and model, it will still NOT recognize it for that reason. This happens sometimes due to some hidden errors in operating systems. What you can do about that is to reset PS4 system to factory settings.

I think this will work. I cannot assure you that, but most probably NOT. O tried restart and reconecting but nothing works. Can you please send us some screen shots of the messages you get on your PS4 so we can better help you.

Firstly I wanna thank you for the comprehensive information posted here! I have came across many comments to which you mentioned that leaving the extended hdd plugged in may lead to electric shock and deem the hdd unreadable. I would like to know if I have to safely disconnect the extended hdd every single time before turning the ps4 off or can I leave the extended hdd plugged in?

Is this advisable? Or would it be safer to just safely unplug it when i am done gaming? My concern is 1. Thanks for your nice compliment, I appreciate it. This will do the job perfectly and maintain your external HDD lifespan. Just like computers, the power supply may mistakenly send a high voltage electric shock to the USB ports once the system boots up.

Although this is rare, but it happened to a few guys who lost their external hard drives. Though, you have made a valid point here concerning spoiling the USB ports. They are shockproof devices that you can fully trust here. Either your PS4 system needs to be reset to factory settings, or you need to update PS4 system software to the latest version, or your hard drive has bad sectors and needs to be fully formatted on PC.

My 2TB external hard drive was stolen , I had 2 games on it. I bought another external hard drive reformatted it. On the the game I play it gives me the message. To start app. Connect extended storage device it is installed on. I can see my weapons and gear on my phone app.

Just went let me play the game. If your game saves are still available, you can easily fix that problem by re-installing those games on a new external hard drive.

Mine will not even light up when it is plugged in. The PS4 shows no indication that it is even connected. Any tips? So my drive, like others, worked for a long time then suddenly stopped being recognized today. Is there anything I can do now besides getting a new drive? I also am not comfortable with trying to rebuild my PS4 database nor do I wish to reset to factory settings. I can always just redownload m games as all my save game management is saved to my system storage.

Just wondering if I had any other options you may know about? Please check this article to learn how to properly format your external hard drive on Windows. Again, thanks for the help and responses! Have a look on this post. Please I need help with my external hard drive. Please connect it to a PC and check whether your PC recognizes it or not.

If your PC recognizes it, come back to us and I will walk you through different methods to fix that issue. Please help me fix this. I did already plug it in to a PC and the PC confirmed that the drive was working just fine. It seems your PS4 system needs to be reset to its factory settings, as it undergoes some internal conflicts.

Make sure to take a copy of your game saves and all other files that you can back up, then perform the factory setting reset.

Once the process is complete, turn off PS4, connect your external hard drive, plug the external hard drive into PS4 and finally turn on PS4 while the external hard drive is connected. So my new external hd has been in for only a week. Hardly enough time to get all my games on it and my ps quits out on me by not shutting down properly and making me eventually have to hold reset and power just to get it to shut off.

Finally the next day i turn it back on and of course… You guessed it. I must repair my ext. Hd to use. So i read this… Nobody had any valid info so i chose to turn off my ps4 correctly again and then turned it back on. This time it says it is repairing my hd. It did and the games still had the exclamation marks on them so i tried one anyway… It took a minite but it played so atleast that is a positive note. No unplugging of any sort was needed and believe me… If i had to reformat and redownload all the games again i would not do it.

Because this will happen again. It is a better bet to just get an 8tb internal if possible… Is it? Or is 2tb max? Anybody know because i might still go that rout in the future. My ps does that stupid sheet all the time and its a brand new pro so wtf.

Lucky me i guess… And yes… First i bought the seagate 8tb hd plus hub but was able to return it to staples for full refund even after opened so this isnt my first visit through here to read all of these so i hope this helps someone. Have a great and wonderful day everyone! Thank you Brandon for telling us your experience that might help someone here having the same problem. Expanding the PS4 storage by upgrading the internal hard drive is a more reliable solution than going for external hard drives.

If you have a PS4 Pro, the maximum compatible internal hard drive available is 2tb. If you like an SSD, the maximum size is 4tb, but it is way too expensive. Hey, great and insightful forum! However, when I try to format it as extended storage, I get the error code CE Any suggestions? That means the format feature of the PS4 system is not working properly.

You can verify that by trying to format another external hard drive if possible. If the same message comes up, it means you either need to rebuild PS4 database to fix that error or fix the PS4 internal hard drive. You can do that either by directly connecting it via SATA cable, or just buy an external hard drive enclosure and connect it externally to a PC. I have a 8TB WD external hard drive that I am trying to connect to watch media through the media player, but the PS4 will only recognise the smallest portion on the hard drive that can not be erased.

How do I get it to recognise the data I have stored on there? Or is the hard drive not supported for PS4? If it is possible to connect your external hard drive to another PS4 to check whether it works there or not. Most probably it will work fine. The latter will delete all stored data on your internal hard drive, so be careful and take a backup. I see now what your problem is. You have a NAS external hard drive, not a regular one. Have majority of my games installed on it. Just recently my PS4 stopped recognizing it.

Just says there is no storage device connected. The light on the hard drive works. Have you tried it first on a PC and check whether it works or not? In most cases this will fix that error. I will try on my pc and see if I can find another PS4. I will get back to you with my findings. Thanks in advance! This will help many people who encounter the same problem.

So it would appear that my computer reads the External Drive just fine. I cant access anything obviously because of the formatting the PS4 did prior. I have to re-initialize the PS4 itself now? After reinitializing, head directly to update the system to the latest version before trying to use the external hard drive. Just wanted to update. Reinitializing my PS4 has worked and gotten the system to read my hard drive again.

Thanks again for all your help! May your experience help someone with the same case. Thanks to you as well. Usually reinitializing PS4 can totally resolve that problem. If I format it on laptop will that format it to use on PS4?

Maybe my lads dropped it and not saying so it is broke. BUT, even though it cannot be opened without a format, other systems Windows for example would recognize the drive and show its icon.

If you happen to format the external hard drive on your MAC, probably it will work again on PS4, you can give it a try. Otherwise, the best test you can do is to connect it to another PS4 if possible and check whether it works there or not. If it does, then you have to factory reset the PS4. If verified, you have to perform a FULL format to eliminate any potential bad sectors that cause this issue. I am sorry to say that if your external hard drive works fine on a PC, some conflicts are occurring within the PS4 system that prevent it from recognizing the external hard drive.

After successfully accomplishing this operation, you have to directly update to the latest system software. Probably bad sectors. You have to check that on a PC. Additionally, you can further test your external hard drive by connecting it to another PS4 if possible and check whether it works fine or not.

This will dramatically help you determine the real cause of the problem. Hi, I have recently bought a 2TB external hard drive to use as extended storage but my PS4 will not recognise it, it is currently formatted the FAT32 and has been previously formatted to exfat both have been full formats but the PS4 will not recognise the HDD.

Should I reinitialise the PS4 if so will this wipe all the data I have?? Firstly, check whether this external hard drive works properly or not by connecting it to a PC. If it works, then your PS4 needs reinitialization. And yes, reinitializing your PS4 will wipe all stored data. So make sure to take a backup before carrying out that process.

Please help.. Thanks in advanced!! Most probably your external hard drive is suffering from bad sectors. You can check it on DOS mode, if this problem persists, then your external hard drive needs replacement.

The drive is working perfectly well, I checked on my pc and PS3. Could you please enlighten me on what the problem is? Usually this issue is caused by application conflicts within PS4 system. This will most probably resolve this problem. My ps4 all of a sudden wont recognize my Seagate 2tb external hard drive. Your external hard drive is suffering from a serious deficiency.

You better consider a quick replacement for it. The best solution is to reinitialize the PS4 and reinstall the system software. You can only if it works. You will need then a disk clone software to back up your data. I am always running out of storage space on my PS4, which means I have to either delete unused apps or saved screenplay videos in order to update apps.

Do you know why it would say so much less than my laptop does? Or how I can fix this? Once again, all I want is to extract my saved capture gallery videos to create more space. The only way to resolve this is by formatting the external hard drive. HDD was formatted with a mb partition. I had to connect to my MacBook, remove the partition through Terminal it was pretty simple; followed a youtube video , and then when I reconnected it to my ps4, the ps4 formatted it to ExFat in about.

Best, Colton. Thanks for telling us about your experience. I truly appreciate that. May this help someone resolve their problem.

As for the first console on which you were originally playing the game, the PS4 system learned that the game files were on an external storage, and when you try to play the same game from the disc, it will keep requiring the external storage on which the game was installed.

What you can do is to uninstall the game from your PS4 then reinstall it from the Disc. This should resolve this issue on the first PS4. As for the second console, PS4 system prevents fully copying a game to another console with the same license. You will always need the original external hard drive to play the game, or just buy a new license.

Got a 6Tb seagate usb3 external. I have tried restarting the ps with external plug in and nothing. I have tried reformating from pc and tried ito in the ps and still nothing. Can some one please tell me what next. A friend has the same external and has no problems. Hey anyone who has a 2.

Never heard about this tip before. Thanks for sharing. May someone benefit from it. Hey had bought a seagate usb 2. Will this really solve my problem? Also if I do format it this way, what should be the allocation size?

How much time will it take to actually do this for 1TB? Is there any other way which is faster? I have done chkdsk healthy drive , looked for bad sectors none found , formatted it with command prompt to exFAT quick , right clicked on drive and then formatted it.

After formatting it with cmd, exFAT option appeared. Clicked options button and then formatted it again to exFAT only to fail. Used tape to cover the middle two USB pins to force 3. Failed again as PS4 never reads the drive and light on external drive blinks slowly. What should I do? I think you should know it is not a new drive, I used to store my data on this before, I deleted all the useless stuff and moved the worthy stuff to my other GB Seagate Expansion Drive external and have performed all this on this Seagate external drive too.

Guess what? There are a lot of questions in my post, please answer all. The only thread which is alive in ! Your external hard drive is apparently defective. The full format process takes between minutes only on a 1tb drive. If it takes way too long, your drive is dying and needs replacement. The average time for transferring 1gb file is 1 minute only. If the process goes fast flawlessly, try to transfer larger multiple files simultaneously say 10gb. You should eventually realize then that the external hard drive itself is deficient.

Please come back with your feedback on this solution so that may others benefit and you get further assistance if needed. If your laptop shows that the external hard drive works fine, most probably your PS4 needs to reinitialize. You can locate the source of problem by connecting your external hard drive to another PS4 if possible. If it works fine, then surely your PS4 needs reinitialization.

Otherwise, it needs a slow, full format on PC. I have been using an external hard drive for well over a year now, and it works great, except that I have to repair the device any time its wire is even SLIGHTLY bumped. With the wire for the EDD being so short, this was hard to avoid. Only the wire was changed… not the EDD. How do I get it to recognize it? Connect it first to a PC and see whether it recognizes it or not. That means also all your stored data will be entirely deleted.

Game saves, screenshots and trophies will be lost and are not downloadable unless you back them up to your cloud storage on PSN. On the other hand, you can only back up your game saves on an external USB storage device. Mine has worked fine for multiple months now and all of a sudden it is saying that the hard drive is unsupported. It is a seagate 4tb.

If possible, connect it to another PS4 and check whether it works fine or not. You need to reinitialize your PS4 and things will go right with you. I accidentally yanked the lead out of my 1tb seagate whilst playing a game it kicked me off and then I tried reconnecting it but it will still not show up as a device on my PS4 or Mac it has the light on the seagate to show there is power but it will not recognise my extended storage.

I have updated PS4 version 6. Is that the issue after I install the new PS4 version? Yes, this issue happens a lot when updating to a newer version. You have to initialize PS4 and update it to the latest version, then re-install all your games.

Just bought a HDD 3. Read this post , it may help you. If not, the only solution you have then is to initialize the PS4. So i bought this Seagate 2TB plugged in with a cable and it has started beeping as of late and not being connected to the ps4.

Connect it to a PC first and verify that it works fine. If so, the problem then is with your PS4. Follow the instructions on this article. The comments are moderated on this website until the approval of the webmaster.

So, you need some time to get them published. I have now tried to download a game on to the hd but it says that it cannot use this device and that it requires a usb 3. How can I upgrade my hd to a usb 3.

Since Sony first released the support for external hard drives to use as extended storage, it announced that it had to be USB 3. So, rest assured that your external hard drive is USB 3. The only solution you can try is to initialize PS4, then immediately install the latest update after the completion of the process.

Afterwards, try to connect the external hard drive again to your PS4, and check whether the issue has been resolved or not. My PS4 is not recognizing the external storage device.

Have you tried it on a PC to check its health? Probably your external HDD is defective and needs replacement. If it works fine on a PC, the problem then is with your PS4. Eventually, if none works with you, you need to initialize PS4.

Seagate expansion 2 tb was working great but one day it ade some beep voice and ps4 did not recognized it I connected it in laptop and the same happened laptop could see that something was pluged in but could not recognice and the window did not popped in my pc. I am sorry to say that. You need a technician to check that for you.

Connect your external hard drive to the other PS4, does it work fine? If yes, your second PS4 needs to initialize. Mostly this is the solution to go for. Otherwise, come back and give us your feedback in order to help you further. Beeping noise indicates hardware failure. Most probably your external hard drive has been damaged.

But before judging, connect it first to a PC and see whether it gets recognized or not. On the other hand, if you can check it on another PS4 that would be even better. Accordingly, your external hard drive is defective. If you can, dismantle it and remove the hard drive from its enclosure and connect it directly to a PC.

Check now whether it works or not. If not, then it is dead. My seagate 4tb hd has worked well for quite some time.

Excuse me, can you elaborate more on the reaction of your computer to the external hard drive? What exactly happens? When I connected it for the first time I started to synchronize and from one moment to another it appeared that I have I have restarted the console and I have not achieved anything.

I also tried to connect it to the PC and although it does recognize it, I do not have the option to format it. I have the screenshots but I do not know how to pass them. I need your help, the Game Drive is completely new and has not dropped water or fallen.

You have to return the external hard drive. The PS4 external hard drive is fully encrypted and the data cannot be detected by a third party system. Only PS4 system can detect the data. Need help. Initialize PS4 first and update to the latest PS4 system software version. This is supposed to fix the issue.

This happened before and I all had to do last time was re-initialize my PS4 and it started working again. I have connected it to my pc and it is working. After initializing PS4, have you installed the latest update? I have a seagate 4tb external hard drive, it has worked fine until recently.

The light is on and if I leave it plugged in for a while it says usb hard drive not compatible. Any help you can give me is much appreciated, thank you. What you can do is to initialize PS4, then update to the latest version of PS4 system software update as the next step.

Now, connect the external hard drive and check whether it works or not. I have formatted it to exfat via the ps4 itself and when I try to format as extended storage I am given an error saying my drive needs to be usb3.

In this article we stated that HUB external hard drives are not compatible with PS4 as an extended storage, whereas it can work fine as a backup storage. Have you checked it first on a PC?

If it works fine there, then your PS4 needs to initialize. This might happen due to a system conflict. Hi I have a 2tb seagate that has worked for about a year but today it just says that it has a capacity of This error is usually caused by a serious hard drive failure.

Most probably your external hard drive is defective and must be replaced. The PS4 operating system cannot start up from an external hard drive. You need to replace the internal hard drive with a new one. You can verify that by dismantling the external HDD enclosure and pulling out the hard drive then connecting it internally to a PC and check whether it recognizes it or not.