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       2025-11-17T16:11:33Z
       
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       TIL that you can backup PlayStation 4 files to external USB media, after learning that the internal HDD of my brother's PS4 broke and it stopped booting. 😩 When I connect the HDD to my FreeBSD server, I can see the drive and partitions, but can't access the data inside them, because they're all encrypted...Cloning the HDD to a SSD with dd / ddrescue also didn't work, because at some point the HDD becomes unresponsive (too many read errors) at some point. SMART status shows a high reallocated sector count, for what that's worth.As a last effort, I installed the PS4 OS on the SSD, and am now overwriting the user partition with the data from the old HDD, as hopefilly the broken sectors are at the start of the disk. I have no Idea if this will work, so wish me luck. 😟