Quote (PSN_4EVA @ Jun 2 2015 08:04pm)
were not copying using a whole system to basically clone the drive and reprogram the new one to read as the old one
Yup. It won't work.

I am saying you literally can do absolutely nothing to your drive, take it out and put it back in, and it will force you to format.
If you take your drive out of your ps4 without backing it up be warned, you will lose everything.