Restoring with a USB stick, will it wipe everything else?

[Nemesis-489]

I backed up some big games on a stick a long time ago before I had an external to use because I wanted to come back to it one day save on data. But now that the day is finally here and I'm at the restore screen and the text is telling me it will initialize everything if I try restoring.
Will it really wipe out everything else just for me to put back 90gb worth of games?

[saiyanbloodstyle]

You have those games digitally right? And do you have the saved data for the games? That's the most important thing to try and copy over (if you've made a lot of progress) as you can always download the games again, there's an issue if you can't copy the saved data over.

[HuntingFever]

Reinitialising your PS4 is the Nuclear option and will wipe your Hard Drive clean, thus you will lose everything that isn't backed up or installed on an external Hard Drive.

Edited September 12, 2020 by HuntingFever
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