How to Recover Deleted Files from PS4 Easily

The case: PS4 data deleted

For many game lovers, PS4 is the indispensable equipment. PS4 (PlayStation 4), the eighth-generation home video game console, is developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Since its release, it has become one of the most popular game consoles in the world.

While players are enjoying games on PS4, they may encounter game data loss. Here is a real case from Reddit:

“Ok so, long story short, my younger brother had his friends over, they got on my PS4 and deleted my spider man save file. Is there any way to get it back? If not it’s not a huge deal, I only had the whole story done but barely any of the free roam. Just wanted to know.”

As everyone knows, game files are easy to be deleted because of human error and virus attack. The loss of game files is undoubtedly a big disaster, because you spend a lot of time and money on these games.

Therefore, restoring files can be a good solution. Is it possible to recover deleted files from PS4? The answer is yes.

How to recover deleted files in PS4 efficiently

Want to restore deleted files from PS4? There are three efficient ways:

Solution 1: recover deleted files in PS4 with data recovery software

With the help of MyRecover, you can retrieve your personal data from varied data loss scenarios such as deletion, disk formatting, and system crashes. This data recovery tool allows you to recover the deleted/lost photos, videos, audio, documents, and other 200+ file types from HDD, USB, SD cards, and other portable devices.

How to restore PS4 game data? Don’t worry! You can try to recover deleted files in PS4 using MyRecover in four steps.

Step 1. Download and install this tool on your Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, or Windows Server computers. Then connect your PS4 hard drive to the computer.

Step 2. After loading the disk, select your PS4 hard drive and click Start Scan.

Step 3. Search or wait to see all the deleted and other missing files of your selected PS4 hard drive.

Step 4. Go to the Deleted Files/Other Missing Files folder, then click “Recover x files” to restore your chosen files. Please store these recovered files in a new path.

Solution 2: recover deleted data in PS4 from the backup created by the built-in tool

PS4 provides users with a built-in backup & recovery tool. If you have backed up PS4 before, you can restore deleted data as follows:

Step 1. Go Settings > System > Back Up and Restore

Step 2. Click Restore PS4.

Step 3. Select the files that you'd like to restore.

Step 4. You can see a screen that tells you that the system will restart and initialize whether or not the backup process is completed. Then click Yes to restore deleted files.

Solution 3: restore deleted files in PS4 from the backup created by AOMEI Backupper

Foster a good habit of backing up is fairly important for disaster recovery. AOMEI Backupper Standard is your another choice to get these deleted files in PS4 back by restoring them. It can meet the needs of all version Windows users, including Windows 10, Windows 8.1/8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and XP.

With AOMEI Backupper Standard, you can sync files, restore selective files. Your precious files can be protected well by these practical features. Besides, simple steps and intuitive interface make your PS4 data recovery effortless.

Before recovery, you need to connect the PS4 hard drive to a Windows-based computer and create file backup with AOMEI Backupper. Then, you can restore your lost PS4 data in following steps:

Step 1. Download, install and launch this software. Click Restore from the left side. Select your files backup (My File Backup). Then click Next.

Step 2. Select a Backup image. Then click Next.

Step 3. You can choose C: to restore your deleted files in this C drive. Then click Next.

Step 4. Select a destination path to recover deleted files. You can choose Restore to original location or Restore to a new location according to your needs. Then click Start Restore.

Step 5. After recovery, you can click Finish.

Notes:

• If you want to maintain the original permission rights for the files, you can click Restore NTFS permissions (supported by AOMEI Backupper Professional) in Step 4. Remember that NTFS permissions can only be recovered to NTFS formatted drives.

• If you want to overwrite existing files, you can click Replace existing files in Step 4.

• After recovering deleted data from PS4, you can select Shut down PC, Restart PC, Hibernate or Sleep in Step 5.

Tips on selective file restore:

If you don't have a file backup, you can choose to restore files from other backup solutions. You will use the Explore Image feature under the Tools tab. It will assign drive letters for all the partition(s) and you can view all the data in Windows Explorer. 

To restore files, please go to Windows Explorer, copy files in the selected partition (s), and past them to another location.

Summary

Recovering deleted files from PS4 is easy and efficient, right? If you want to retrieve these missing files from PS4, you can use AOMEI Backupper, Recoverit Pro or PS4 built-in tool. It is worth mentioning that the restore process in AOMEI Backupper won’t interrupt your work. You can use your computer without any concern!

What’s more, you also can decrypt and recover ransomware encrypted files, recover files from formatted SD card with AOMEI Backupper. You don’t have to worry about the security of your files anymore with theses useful functions.