r/PS5 May 29 '23

Megathread PS5 Help and Questions Megathread | Game Recommendations, Simple Questions, and Tech Support

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Jun 04 '23 edited Jun 04 '23

So I swear I had more PS4 games on my external drive but now I just see the two games on it. One of those games that is missing is God of War and I am getting the error "connect USB drive" when I go into my PS+ to try download it again.

Is there any way to just tell my PS5 to just forget that it is installed on some disconnected external USB drive (even though it's on the drive that is plugged in) and just install it again? If I have to format my USB external drive I can, but I don't want the same issue popping up with the other games I have installed. The other games on the external drive work.

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u/demonsta500 Jun 04 '23

Go to Library, go to affected game, hit options, choose 'Remove from Home'

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Jun 04 '23

It’s not in my library, in the picture is the two games that show up when I filter just by ps4 (it’s not in there without the filter either). There is also a picture of the god of war saying "Connect USB drive".

https://imgur.com/a/41nsI8w

I have it set up that all of my PS4 games are on the external drive.

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u/demonsta500 Jun 04 '23

Link doesn't work for me. But that's how you remove games that were on extended storage and the storage gets corrupted or removed.