How to Replace Failed Xbox One Hard Drive with SSD

[@jeroenkarman]

This is just how a tutorial should be. No endless crap, just a quick tour through the proces!

[@tonyr.5673]

AMEN!

[@mistert1628]

100%

[@Griffith_DidNothingWrong]

Just wow. This is the one and only tutorial anybody should watch. I'll be using this tutorial to fix my Xbox One X sometime in the future.

[@thefiXfiles]

Glad it helped!

[@OVBSNM]

Perfect guide, thanks to you I was able to solve the problem on my Xbox 🙏

[@thefiXfiles]

Glad it helped, and thanks for the Super!

[@mr.tuckers2848]

Excellent! Must be an Engineer who created this tutorial. Very thorough and easy to follow. Thank you!

[@timsecondchannel]

Just used it to fix an XB1 that was showing nothing but a black screen. Can't thank you enough for this very detailed fix!

[@TheServerSupreme]

Great video! Used your vid for a HDD to SSD swap on my xbox one and gave her a cleaning with some fresh thermal paste. Just finishing with the update and I'm ready to start installing games!

[@multi_kills1336]

Just saw your video from 5 years ago👍 glad to see your still uploading

[@Autumncatto]

Thank you so much for all the help and simple guide. It took me 1 watch to understand this and you also saved me £500 on a new console. Thanks so much!

[@thefiXfiles]

That’s what it’s all about! Glad you saved some cash. Buy that sweet cat some treats and give some scritchies for me 🐈

[@sunnysideandy]

Great tutorial, followed it exactly. Pay attention to the sequence of installing the panels at the end; the top section must go first, and then the front.

[@digitalray2760]

Just swapped a failed hdd with an ssd using your easy to follow video. Now my daughter and I can continue playing monster hunter rise :) Thanks!

[@georgehennon6415]

Great video! Used the same ssd as you and sata to usb adapter and everything works great. My old hard drive was failing and needed a factory reset every time it would get completely turned off, so I really needed a new one. The only thing is, on boot-up, I no longer get the green loading screen, just a black screen until the home menu pops up. Doesn't bother me but thought I'd mention it for other people attempting this.

[@mundiasimfukwe3135]

You have to put the bootanim.dat file in your new harddrive for it to back the green loading screen.

[@NITROexpress17]

It’s because that green screen is normally there while the is boots up from the hdd but now that the is is loading faster it skips it entirely because it’s not needed. It’s actually interesting because Xbox ones have had this for a while now in the code so Microsoft really did think about putting in ssds at the time of the ones development

[@nateduhgreat1871]

@@NITROexpress17I used this video to upgrade to an ssd as well. I also had a black screen while booting up. But on the next update, the green screen returned on boot up.

[@anthonyduffy8062]

How much faster is the loadfing time ?? tks

[@djrellco]

Whew! The 500gb threshold is key to doing the offline update. I used a 480gb too, used a 500gb and it's updating.

[@toddsorenson8975]

Is 480 the issue or is less than 500 the issue? So a 250 or 128 will not work in guessing?

[@suprvulcan]

I wanted to pass on a thank you from my daughter and I. You may as well call this a step-by-step tutorial for how to replace and reload a hard drive on an Xbox. Our Xbox one S is a very early generation and the video you put together worked perfectly the first time through. Again, thank you for putting together such a helpful and concise video. Well done!

[@thefiXfiles]

That’s great to hear. Comments like this keep me goin man. It feels good to know I was able to help yall out. Hope you both get hours and hours of good gaming out of it 👍. And thanks for the tip as well. Appreciate it.

[@StephenMillar-x9k]

Followed your video to the letter and everything went exactly as you have shown. Thanks for a great and simple guide.

[@AdidasSoccerNick]

Thanks! Just a heads up for others who tried, i tried to do what the microsoft page said, looked up OS Version and chose OSU2 as it instructed me, got error, went straight for OSU1, no problem! I will comment, it seems console startup isnt noticeably faster, but scrolling menus on home page is smoother so i call it a win!

[@aary.d443]

im pretty sure the startup sequence is stored on the built in, not removable flash memory, and that's why its a bit slow coz its also a bit old now

[@pg__]

For anyone that might wonder, 2TB is the max limit, and minimum is 500/512GB. 480GB is below the minimum and won't work using this method. There is an script that does allow using smaller HDD/SDD but it isn't really worth the effort. The best scenario for the OG X1 is an internal 500GB SSD and an external SSD. It loads fast and doesn't make too much sound.

[@rob7360]

I just got a Crucial MX 500 SDD 1TB on Prime Day for a great price. Can I use this 1TB drive in my OG Xbox One or should I exchange for a 500GB SSD?

[@kaibyoo]

My Xbox is 320. How is that Even possible?

[@bradp213]

@@kaibyoobecause you touch yourself at night.

[@akoskey]

I was just asking about this. I want to put the 2TB SSD.

[@agoogleuser1188]

@@kaibyoosystem files and stuff

[@hawkgoalie30]

So far so good. The beginning of the year I had 2 crapped out Xb1. This just helped me fix my second one! Thanks!

[@MikeReiner]

Subbed for the concise no bs tutorial presentation alone.

[@thefiXfiles]

Thanks brother. Appreciate you

[@MikeReiner]

@@thefiXfiles I just upgraded my old Xbox one to a 1tb SSD following this guide and it couldn’t have gone smoother.

[@holycrapitsthisguy4415]

Me too. Good video

[@mike_t_]

Xb one turned on then off - thought I was going to have to upgrade consoles. Found this gem of a video - followed instructions to the T - worked like a charm. $75 for all items max.

[@StreetHawksUK]

Thanks for this Tutorial Dude! Smoothest Guide I've watched to date! Everything on Point! & worked like a charm! Total Legend!

[@KBXband]

Just wondering if I could put a 2TB SSD in my fat Xbox One. I was gonna put it in my PS4 but my blu Ray drive isn't being detected so I can't finish the process, let alone start it.

[@truebeliever2176]

Honestly thank you. I literally have gutted my xbox and been beating my head over the table for 9 hrs until I stumbled on to your tutorial

[@thefiXfiles]

Glad it helped!

[@72Deckard]

Great video! I followed it to replace my failing HHD to SSD. It went like clockwork!!! Thank you!

[@tylerphillips402]

hunted for this after watching iFixit's video because they didnt include the formatting and OS install. simple, clean, understandable. thanks

[@thefiXfiles]

Glad I could help

[@akoskey]

This video helped me fix my Xbox and get back to gaming. I thought it was done for. I enjoyed getting back at it. Thank you!!!!

[@marcjurowicz5366]

Great tutorial! I just upgraded to the same 1TB Crucial SSD on my 1st gen Xbox One and everything went great. Thank you again!

[@Silver1470]

how much of the 1tb is actual usable space? like 800gb-900gb?

[@justinevans7501]

Such a great video. Thank you for your skill, and clarity. So very helpful

[@Denymeister]

Fantastic guide. My old Xbox lives another day. Thank you

[@bucksabsente9701]

Man and I thought I had to throw it away! Thank you so much, it worked perfectly.

[@thefiXfiles]

Glad it helped!

[@gdparry2727]

Need to get myself that usb-sata cable. My xbox died and having tried and failed with the osu1 as is, i'll be doing a tear-down soon enough Good video - and thanks for clarifying the SSD min size too

[@MrTable678]

What a massive pain for mine, nothing wanted to come apart but i finally got it. Thanks

[@wessoms]

Thank you! TLDR: If you are getting error E102 and think you need to replace your internal hard drive, try reinstalling the OS first. I was stuck in an infinite Error E102 loop and was ready to replace my original internal hard drive (I'd bought my Xbox used and had it for seven years so no real surprises there), and figured I'd try to move the OS to my external drive connected via USB, or remove its housing and turn it into an internal hard drive manually. Unfortunately my external hard drive uses weird connectors so I couldn't move that to be internal, and the Xbox refused to boot with no internal drive (despite an external drive and flash drive with OS plugged in). I tried reinstalling the OS to the original hard drive and, much to my surprise, that worked perfectly. Turns out I didn't even need to open my Xbox, but thanks to this well-made video I didn't cause any damage anyway.

[@IceHawk369]

So how did you update your hard drive OS?

[@demijebus6831]

I have been trying this but my Xbox won't find me the offline update option when I plug in my os usb. I think I have maybe used my Xbox for 40hrs and now it is a brick. Very frustrating.

[@omar9955h]

you may need to fomat your usb drive to NTFS @@demijebus6831

[@keego_yt0810]

best informative tutorial i ever seen. 👍

[@tonyr.5673]

What a GREAT tutorial! Right to the point and no bs!

[@seder87]

Great Video, did the replacement just now and it worked like a charm. Thank you!

[@Dani4LA0]

It is faster?

[@dustylyle1133]

Great tutorial but I had to hold the sync & eject button then push power button until I heard two beeps. Only then did my Xbox recognize the USB and started the update automatically. Still worked just like your video. Went with 2.5” SSD @2TB. Now moving my games from external to internal and transfer speeds went from 120-150Mbps to 450-600Mbps!

[@joshuannamdi5242]

My Xbox isn’t recognizing my usb drive either. Holding down the sync and eject buttons isn’t fixing the problem. Any ideas?

[@dustylyle1133]

@@joshuannamdi5242 Keep trying, took me like 6-7 attempts to get the beeps then all of a sudden started working

[@joshuannamdi5242]

@@dustylyle1133 the issue was my USB drive. I used second USB drive and the Xbox recognized that one.

[@kennylingusdingalingus2773]

Thank you, the surprise battlefront gameplay is awesome. I fuggin love that game.

[@thefiXfiles]

Same here!

[@MrIMCP]

This has given the the confidence to upgrade my original Xbox one!

[@eliashoyer1644]

If someone gets the E101 error, just press the sync and eject buttom the same time before pressing the start button untl it beeps 2 (without usb in console) or 3 times (with usb in console).

[@tehsalt]

Got my xbox working. I purchased the same 1tb ssd you used. Big thanks.

[@thefiXfiles]

Glad I could help. Enjoy!

[@lourod9001]

Wow great video saved me a ton of time and headache. Very clear to follow and execute.

[@Pedicab_London_Channel]

Quick, detailed, professional.

[@jason1413stine]

Instead of using the command prompt to format the SSD can you just right click the SSD > select Format > choose NTFS as type > quick format? Or if it’s not showing up initially just do it through the GUI in disk management?

[@OMGRC]

Thank you very much for this video👏This was easy to follow and straightforward. My issue was I swapped out my 1tb SSD to reinstall OG hard drive for some reason didn’t just work when reinstalled. Thank you 👍

[@jameswarren5621]

Is the hard drive being bad the thing that won't let a console update finish

[@louislewis4838]

Thanks for the video. Really helpful. This is the best instructional video I have seen on KZbin. You should train KZbinrs how to make these kind of videos.

[@thefiXfiles]

Thanks for the kind words. I try to respect people’s time so they can get stuff fixed and get back to life.

[@EliranMor]

Perfect Guide , saved me a ton of time Thank You

[@guan3753]

No confusing stuff and great instructions, thankd

[@lenmobb8729]

Do I need the USB to SATA adapter or can I just Connect the SSD to my Internal SATA?

[@anthonyduffy8062]

Fair play literally One of the best how to do. Thank you , ALSO tks as i was going to use a 250G ssd

[@BrianGunn-wj6cc]

Thanks. Great tutorial. Fixed my XBox, with failed hard drive, with no problems. Although the case is not as pretty now!

[@CoolModderJaydonX]

I find that to be a fair tradeoff.

[@loucop4]

Thanks so much!! My Xbox has been throwing errors every time I tried these things. But yours worked! Cheers mate

[@thefiXfiles]

Glad I could help

[@levelzero1]

Thanks for this man! Just did this --- and followed the instructions, worked great! And it clearly made a big performance. Went with a two terabyte WD SSD drive.

[@NEMOJA]

Hell ya just what I needed!

[@robbarro4953]

So I did this using the hard drive linked here, and everything seemed to go just fine during the switchout, but when I fired it all back up and turned it on I get no video.. Anyone know what may be causing that? The device powers up and makes some chimes, but no video at all.. I am guessing maybe I knocked something loose inside?

[@Taunos7]

This is an amazing tutorial, helped me a lot 😊

[@suprvulcan]

Thanks!

[@guan3753]

Hey man, why doesnt my offline sysem update thing pop up ehen i plug in the usb drive, did everyhing but still

[@syoungky]

This was an awesome tutorial video. Keep up the good content

[@crsxbike2164]

Idk if my tool set is different but t9 feels very sloppy, mine is definitely a t10 on those top screws

[@MATTKBAN]

Glad the internal can be upgraded. A 2tb is the max to be used as another video stated.

[@-_-Thomas-_-.]

No, a 4tb hdd can also be used, but it will be necessary to pass more, i.e. the maximum partition of 2tb will have to be increased manually to 4tb, through applications on pc

[@Bakedea87]

04:48 Its not "Create part prime" but "Create part prim" that worked for me.

[@RicoOCHO85]

Ok odd q..when prepping the SSD, why go through command prompt to format it to NTSF and not do it the same way as the flash drive?

[@FaustRoland]

Thanks for the tutorial. I was able to successfully replace my failed HDD.

[@thefiXfiles]

Sweet! Glad you got it working.

[@jmoser220]

Did you notice any improvement in loading times after swapping for the SSD? Great video... I almost made the 480GB mistake too. Glad I watched before purchasing.

[@thefiXfiles]

Loading screens are a little faster, but honestly it wasn’t the huge difference I was hoping for. I’d consider it a minor improvement. Hope this wasn’t a disappointment lol

[@Shaheer-PK]

@@thefiXfiles can I replace my 500gb Xbox hhd to a 1Tb samsung ssd

[@Shaheer-PK]

oh never mind

[@pbpraga3963]

can you clone the disk on windows? why the usb pendrive update?

[@niklamystery2nico.c4]

hey sorry , my xbox one s is with black screen , can i replace the hard disk with the one frome an xbox one ( the old version)

[@timrandall4659]

I know this was a while ago. Just wanted to say thanks! Fixed my Xbox!

[@Six-6-strings]

👏👏👏👏👏 Well done. I thought my One was done. Had a 1TB I just pulled from my Dell laptop worked perfectly. Thx

[@Vrixey]

Do we really need to configure or not cab we just plug it in

[@harrysaunders7764]

Can I put another exact Xbox hard drive from my old Xbox in to my new one both the same Xbox and hard drive

[@toxicreaper559]

Why are you selecting part 1 is that the disk that it goes too

[@charlesmoore8511]

Excellent step by step video

[@sudorelabs4901]

Ummm my xbox is stuck in preparing xbox. Can I still stick the USB in and try and update the hard drive that is already inn?

[@brittzank8987]

Will this fix my green screen of death? I've tried factory resetting and it just gives me errors.

[@rollotomassi4768]

You really did an outstanding job on this video. Thanks so much

[@thefiXfiles]

Glad it was helpful!

[@braiacoelho]

I put a 960G SSD but the Xbox only recognizes 365G. Do you know what it could be

[@Asmodeus-Maxwell]

U answered all my questions that I've been looking for tyvm

[@MrEpicVid]

Do you know the max storage capacity for the xbox one?

[@qology182]

I heard 2 TB SSD or HDD

[@zrock8348]

Great guide- however, I do not have a startup animation anymore. Is there any way to get it working without yanking it back out?

[@demijebus6831]

Just curious. Is it necessary to cmd the new hard drive? Other than the prime input it looked as if you just did an ntfs format.

[@the_lion55]

What's the max of tb that can be used on xbox

[@mikemartin8194]

Which screw driver do you use to take the hard drive from the plastic tray?

[@dalxyon]

Great video but you can absolutely skip the stage where you used diskpart to format and create a partition. The Xbox will perform this step and will create 5 partitions in GPT format. What you did was create 1 partition in MBR format which is fine for PC but Xbox cannot boot MBR.

[@IBuiltDaArk]

So just stick any drive in, run OSU from USB, and gold to go?

[@dalxyon]

@@IBuiltDaArk you got it man. The Xbox will run diskpart itself using the commands designated in OSU.

[@dandestroyer666]

What if we just want to swap an already formatted for xbox one hdd for another one of higher storage?

[@HailAnts]

I thought the Xbox hard drive had to be specially formatted as exFAT and assigned multiple partitions with unique names via a PowerShell script in order for it to work? Does booting with the OSU1 thumb drive bypass all that?

[@brentcarter8329]

help! Changed the hard drive now its not displaying and auto powers off after like 3 minutes

[@joerinaldi5]

I tried following your video , but didn't work for me. I purchased a WD blue hdd 1tb in size. I formatted it the way you suggest, but wants to initialize as MBR not in GUID like the original 500gb hdd. The video is great for dissembling and re install.

[@shyochi4400]

yo i did this the last time Like 4 years ago, does this still work?

[@wrathfang]

I have never seen a person make formatting a hard drive that damn difficult lmao

[@NoBsTech-cc1dw]

I was like bro 😭 why did I have to go to cmd to format it to ntfs????

[@astroniun]

Qeastion are you able to take out that storage and then put it in a pc

[@theprimestonecollection295]

I wanna go to 5tb on my xbox's internal HDD, is that possible?

[@sudorelabs4901]

Thank u so much! Fab video. Followed to a T and now have two xboxs in my room for couch playing with remote play

[@thefiXfiles]

Nice! Glad it helped you get it working👌

[@sudorelabs4901]

@thefiXfiles yer really good vid. Have a xbox one x on main TV and xbox one on remote play via laptop.

[@samandjacobdnd5965]

Can you just swap with any ssd or does it have to have anything g specific with it.

[@alan7117]

what's the purpose of connecting the drive to pc? can I just install it to the device without any formatting or copying? I'll reinstall everything once I restart my xbox, is that gonna work?

[@rafaman927]

How much avail space you had after the upgrade?

[@EthanIreland-fu8ho]

where do i put the boot animation file

[@anthonyduffy8062]

So the big question . With SSD installed how faster is it ??????????

[@izidororaziel4918]

Not much. The boot is fast, the performance I didnt see much of a difference. In the Xbox One X the ssd feels slightly better, though.

[@hairipony4615]

I tried to format hdd and clean all of it.. after i turn on i get error E100 idk what to do

[@Hawkem68]

Is the drive bigger than 500gb?

[@hairipony4615]

@@Hawkem68 yaa i didn't swap hdd i just format it

[@warioscousin]

can i use this method even if my hard drive is still working good. probablky a dumb question but i am dumb so idk lol