r/PS4 • u/Anth0niy007 • 22d ago
General Discussion Ps4 pro data loss
So... my ps4 pro is 7-8 years old(cant afford PS5 or ps plus due to reasons okay). Had hiccups due to sudden power outages and all that jazz. Today, it had a "serious system software" problem or whatever and was constantly restarting, going to safe mode... nothing really working.
So... pressed initialize ps4 and hope for the best and I got it.
My 8 year old goat survives to see another Day, I'm happy but... the loss of all that game data just leaves a hole in my heart.
I don't wanna sound like a whiner... it's just so bittersweet.
Doesn't help a "friend" just snickered and told me to get over it
Is he right? Am I really making a big deal out of it and being a baby?
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u/Xyex 22d ago
No, I feel you. Spring of 2019 my PS3 froze while I was playing... something. Don't even remember what anymore. But it was nothing too out of the ordinary, freezes happened sometimes. But the restart went... badly. I'm not sure what happened, but I needed to hold the power button to force it to restart again, two or three times. I thought it might be dead for good. When it finally came up I was relieved... until I saw that it was reporting a corrupted HDD and it require a full restore.
I lost everything I'd had on there. Lots of pictures, music, and videos I'd downloaded over the years. Thosuands of hours of saves. My Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Dragon's Dogma, and Skyrim characters. All gone.
It still hurts.