My playstation 4 slim has fallen into the blue light of death. I don't think I can go till the end of november for the next gen consoles to come out. Playstation support is literally impossible to reach. Does anyone know if I can take the hard drive out of my current PS4 slim and put it into a new/used one if I bought one? I see articles that are 4-5 years old saying I cant because you couldn't with the ps3, but nothing that is definitive. (repair mode does nothing. my playstation will not boot into normal mode. I also only get one boot attempt per plug in. After each failed boot I have to unplug and plug back in for it to attempt and fail again.)
At that point you would remove your dead hard drive and install the new one. At that point you will have to reinstall the PS4 software by using a USB thumb drive. Just follow this URL it will tell you how to do it https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/system-updates/ps4/
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Their PS4 is dead not their hard-drive. They're asking if it's possible to transfer their save data from their internal hard-drive into a new PS4 by replacing the new PS4's hard-drive with the old one.
Assuming your old hard drive is good when you put it in the new PS4 it will be re-formatted and you will then have to reinstall the PS4 operating system.
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