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[LowParry]

He's going to need to reformat but how?

 

[Jedi2016]

Well, if you can get it to boot that far with no HDD at all, the solution is simple: Wipe the removed HDD before putting it back in. The system is designed to accept a blank hard drive.

 

[bananafactory]

"Oh, I need a computer..."

 

[Edgeward]

wth is he doing lol

 

[Leg-End]

I can't even......

 

[Ray Wonder]

Maaan, I wish he knew how to format the drive. Problem solved.

 

[Bunta]

Is he putting it back in without reformatting it?

 

[kasane]

the moral of this reality show is dat never giff up! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

 

[N.Domixis]

Are you kidding, all this because he currupted his HDD?! lol

 

[LuuKyK]

What is he doing? The fuck.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Wtf is going on

I think that he really has no idea what he's doing

 

[danwarb]

Exactly.

Aren't downloads and installs one in the same on the PS4? It starts downloading and you can begin playing after a short amount of time, so it's caching data to the HDD. Unplugging the system while it's doing this could obviously cause some corruption. There should be some sort of safeguard in case of power outages, etc, which may be why the system won't respond to the power button when it's doing this stuff in the background.

PS360 would restore original files there. It wasn't even a system update? It looks like it died before he turned it off.

 

[SoilBreak]

god bless this man.

 

[Dr.Acula]

SOMEBODY tell this poor kid about the PUP update

Is this dude on GAF? GAF is pretty good for tech support.

 

[eighty(one)]

Uproar over nothing.

Lesson: don't unplug or turn off PS4s for any reason while games or system updates are performing installs (games do so upon starting).

 

[blankempathy]

OK so basically this guy is an idiot. All he needs to do is remove the corrupt partition...

Apparently he doesn't have a computer to do it.

 

[D23]

Omg he needs to format his hard drive

/thread of the year

 

[The Elite]

The guy from NeoGAF replaced the HDD and had no luck. I don't think he tried to just remove and boot though. He should.

 

[AbortedWalrusFetus]

The sad thing is a guy is streaming himself playing Knack and only has 20 viewers.

The guy with the broken console has 5000 viewers.

 

[Salex_]

I'm happy for the guy, I hope this can help the other few people having this problem.

 

[TheAbsolution]

Yeah It looks like it was user error. The HDD probably got messed up

 

[BadHand]

So this must mean its a firmware issue right?

 

[ironcreed]

HDD problem?

 

[Exr]

6k viewers and still rising, this is incredible

 

[Ouren]

LOL, THIS IS SO HILARIOUS.

OK so it seems like the HDD got corrupted because the idiot unplugged it while it was updating.

what a dumbass.

 

[Goodacre0081]

the HDD is corrupt. a format would be nice

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Yeah, he's lost it. Kinda want it to not work now to continue experiencing the roller coaster of emotions.

 

[NoTacos]

I always heard people were this dumb, but I never witnessed it first hand. I'm in awe.

BAHAHAHAHA Behold the average lowly consumer.

 

[cdkee]

I don't think this guy is the most tech savvy individual from Taco Bell

 

[Revengineer]

I said this earlier in the thread.

Where do I claim my reward?

At your PS4 when your harddrive gets corrupted.

 

[mentallyinept]

So did pulling the power caused the system partition on the HDD to be corrupted?

Wow...

 

[Courage]

Cerny would never disappoint us.

 

[Professor Lich]

Does this mean his drive was corrupted then or something? Would mean that it was indeed his fault when he did the unplugging.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Uproar over nothing.

Lesson: don't unplug or turn off PS4s for any reason while games or system updates are performing installs (games do so upon starting).

I guess the only mistake sony made was not expecting people to do stupid shit.

 

[Fatbody]

Lol, dropped the screws.

 

[Fedelias]

"Teaching you guys how to do something...In case something breaks like mine did."

heh

 

[Rebel Leader]

Finally safe mode

 

[Dragon]

LOL, THIS IS SO HILARIOUS.

OK so it seems like the HDD got corrupted because the idiot unplugged it while it was updating.

Formating it will solve his problem. He just doesn't have another computer.

Someone needs to tell him to get an SATA cable because he can use it to plug into his laptop and boot Linux from USB to format the drive.

So it ended up being his fault and he was being such a dick to the customer rep :/.

 

[Yondy604]

HE FIXED IT LMFAO LEGEND

 

[Lemonz]

He's in safe mode.

 

[Cow Goes Moo]

it's all good guys, he fixed it

 

[vilmer_]

Square One baby!

 

[Lunzio]

Square one, huh.

 

[The Dear Leader]

SQUARE ONEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Y2Kev]

I think the HDD is not corrupted. It has to be something else.

 

[Linkhero1]

BACK TO SQUARE ONE

Hold on....wait....hold on....wait....hold on

 

[joshcryer]

aaaaaaaahahahahahahahhah, he's going to be up and running

he will have 5k viewers to show off his PS4

hope he keeps streaming

 

[Twio]

WE'RE AT SQUARE ONEEE

 

[LowParry]

Oh man...okay so that is exciting. hahaha. You gotta cheer the guy on.

 

[v1lla21]

Lol, he said he is teaching us something.