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.
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!
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!
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.
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
@@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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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).
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
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.
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.
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 👍
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.
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.
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
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?
Thanks for the video. Really helpful. This is the best instructional video I have seen on TH-cam. You should train TH-camrs how to make these kind of videos.
I think this is probably one of the best instruction videos i have seen on internet - but i have one question - if you are replacing the drive, what about everything on the old drive, does that not need to be transferred to new drive ?
Excellent tutorial mate I had already cloned my drive to ssd but when I attempted to copy the partions back to a mechanical drive to sell the xbox it wouldn't recognise the drive in aomei strange I just used your partition tutorial & saved a headache lol thank you 👌
hey loved the video, by chance does your kinect work with this latest update? i had to do something similar and im getting an error stating "there was a problem with kinect" even when the kinect isnt attached. so im trying a reinstall of the os to see if that will help... but any suggestions as to why that could be happening?
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?
This is how it should be perfect instructions cheers also just wondering is there any difference in loading times on the fat Xbox one mode with the SSD ?l?
Thanks! Really appreciate it. As for load times, it honestly wasn’t much of a difference lol. I was hoping it would be blazing fast but it’s about the same. Loading screens in games are slightly faster but nothing amazing.
Great great great tutorial. This work great for me, but I have a concern. I installed a 960 gig SSD from Kingston, but the Xbox is only seeing it as 365 gigs. Is the issue where you have to buy either a 500 gig SSD or 1tb SSD or 2 terabyte SSD still an issue?
To make sure the console works when I try it, I'm not going to fully reassemble it immediately or plug it in to my TV, instead using a USB capture card to my laptop screen with OBS in that case.
Thanks for the kind words. There wasn’t much of a speed increase. I think loading screens go a little quicker, but it’s still about the same as it was before.
Wow.... im looking days over a days over found a video like this, quickly, simple, and good explaining. I have a xbox one fat so, tell me why the first ssd wouldn't work?? And i just enter to the microsoft page and the page says me that for the fat versions, i need to install 2 osus wtf, you just installed osu1 and runs perfectly. I have in mind buying a new hard drive to my xbox.. good video greetings from chile.
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.
This is just how a tutorial should be. No endless crap, just a quick tour through the proces!
AMEN!
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.
Glad it helped!
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.
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?
My Xbox is 320. How is that Even possible?
@@kaibyoobecause you touch yourself at night.
I was just asking about this. I want to put the 2TB SSD.
@@kaibyoosystem files and stuff
Excellent! Must be an Engineer who created this tutorial. Very thorough and easy to follow. Thank you!
Whew! The 500gb threshold is key to doing the offline update. I used a 480gb too, used a 500gb and it's updating.
Is 480 the issue or is less than 500 the issue? So a 250 or 128 will not work in guessing?
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!
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!
That’s what it’s all about! Glad you saved some cash. Buy that sweet cat some treats and give some scritchies for me 🐈
Just saw your video from 5 years ago👍 glad to see your still uploading
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!
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.
You have to put the bootanim.dat file in your new harddrive for it to back the green loading screen.
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
@@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.
How much faster is the loadfing time ?? tks
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
Perfect guide, thanks to you I was able to solve the problem on my Xbox 🙏
Glad it helped, and thanks for the Super!
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.
Followed your video to the letter and everything went exactly as you have shown. Thanks for a great and simple guide.
So far so good.
The beginning of the year I had 2 crapped out Xb1. This just helped me fix my second one! Thanks!
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!
My Xbox isn’t recognizing my usb drive either. Holding down the sync and eject buttons isn’t fixing the problem. Any ideas?
@@joshuannamdi5242 Keep trying, took me like 6-7 attempts to get the beeps then all of a sudden started working
@@dustylyle1133 the issue was my USB drive. I used second USB drive and the Xbox recognized that one.
Subbed for the concise no bs tutorial presentation alone.
Thanks brother. Appreciate you
@@thefiXfiles I just upgraded my old Xbox one to a 1tb SSD following this guide and it couldn’t have gone smoother.
Me too. Good video
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.
So how did you update your hard drive OS?
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.
you may need to fomat your usb drive to NTFS
@@demijebus6831
Such a great video. Thank you for your skill, and clarity. So very helpful
hunted for this after watching iFixit's video because they didnt include the formatting and OS install. simple, clean, understandable. thanks
Glad I could help
Great video! I followed it to replace my failing HHD to SSD. It went like clockwork!!! Thank you!
Glad the internal can be upgraded. A 2tb is the max to be used as another video stated.
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
Fantastic guide. My old Xbox lives another day. Thank you
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
Glad it helped!
Thanks for this Tutorial Dude! Smoothest Guide I've watched to date! Everything on Point! & worked like a charm! Total Legend!
Hell ya just what I needed!
Great tutorial! I just upgraded to the same 1TB Crucial SSD on my 1st gen Xbox One and everything went great. Thank you again!
how much of the 1tb is actual usable space? like 800gb-900gb?
Quick, detailed, professional.
Thanks. Great tutorial. Fixed my XBox, with failed hard drive, with no problems. Although the case is not as pretty now!
I find that to be a fair tradeoff.
Man and I thought I had to throw it away! Thank you so much, it worked perfectly.
Great Video, did the replacement just now and it worked like a charm. Thank you!
It is faster?
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!!!!
What was happening with the bad hard drive installed?
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).
Got my xbox working. I purchased the same 1tb ssd you used. Big thanks.
Glad I could help. Enjoy!
What a GREAT tutorial! Right to the point and no bs!
Thank you, the surprise battlefront gameplay is awesome. I fuggin love that game.
Same here!
Thanks for the tutorial. I was able to successfully replace my failed HDD.
Sweet! Glad you got it working.
04:48 Its not "Create part prime" but "Create part prim" that worked for me.
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
No confusing stuff and great instructions, thankd
I have never seen a person make formatting a hard drive that damn difficult lmao
I was like bro 😭 why did I have to go to cmd to format it to ntfs????
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.
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.
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 👍
I know this was a while ago. Just wanted to say thanks! Fixed my Xbox!
Wow great video saved me a ton of time and headache. Very clear to follow and execute.
Thanks so much!! My Xbox has been throwing errors every time I tried these things. But yours worked! Cheers mate
Glad I could help
Fair play literally One of the best how to do. Thank you , ALSO tks as i was going to use a 250G ssd
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.
So just stick any drive in, run OSU from USB, and gold to go?
@@IBuiltDaArk you got it man. The Xbox will run diskpart itself using the commands designated in OSU.
Excellent step by step video
Super helpful! Thank you!
Glad it helped!
U answered all my questions that I've been looking for tyvm
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.
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
@@thefiXfiles can I replace my 500gb Xbox hhd to a 1Tb samsung ssd
oh never mind
This is an amazing tutorial, helped me a lot 😊
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?
Thank u so much! Fab video. Followed to a T and now have two xboxs in my room for couch playing with remote play
Nice! Glad it helped you get it working👌
@thefiXfiles yer really good vid. Have a xbox one x on main TV and xbox one on remote play via laptop.
Thanks for the video. Really helpful. This is the best instructional video I have seen on TH-cam. You should train TH-camrs how to make these kind of videos.
Thanks for the kind words. I try to respect people’s time so they can get stuff fixed and get back to life.
You really did an outstanding job on this video. Thanks so much
Glad it was helpful!
This was an awesome tutorial video. Keep up the good content
Thank you. Was able to revive and keep using the Xbox. Much appreciated.
Great to hear!
I think this is probably one of the best instruction videos i have seen on internet - but i have one question - if you are replacing the drive, what about everything on the old drive, does that not need to be transferred to new drive ?
Great tutorial it worked for a 2tb
Thanks a million
I owe you a beer or your beverage of choice! Thank you kindly sir, you saved my xbox.
شكرا لك لقد ساعدني هاذه كثير لأكن الهارد ديسك يعمل على xbox one s
👏👏👏👏👏 Well done. I thought my One was done. Had a 1TB I just pulled from my Dell laptop worked perfectly. Thx
Do you know the max storage capacity for the xbox one?
I heard 2 TB SSD or HDD
Thanks a million, worked like a charm!!
Do I need the USB to SATA adapter or can I just Connect the SSD to my Internal SATA?
Thanks a million. This tutorial was a godsend.
Is the hard drive being bad the thing that won't let a console update finish
The best video ever thank you so much for sharing ❤
omg thanks for the warning, that was EXACTLY the SSD drive I wanted to replace it with.
Excellent tutorial mate I had already cloned my drive to ssd but when I attempted to copy the partions back to a mechanical drive to sell the xbox it wouldn't recognise the drive in aomei strange I just used your partition tutorial & saved a headache lol thank you 👌
Thank you. I have a 1TB that would be sweet in my Xbox one! Now i can install it !!!
Amazing and informative video!!!
Glad you liked it!
hey loved the video, by chance does your kinect work with this latest update? i had to do something similar and im getting an error stating "there was a problem with kinect" even when the kinect isnt attached. so im trying a reinstall of the os to see if that will help... but any suggestions as to why that could be happening?
Your a life saver thanks
Uses command prompt for disk partition. Okay, he knows his way around a PC. Then uses Internet Explorer........... lol. Great tutorial.
U just helped me out bro bro appreciate
It works! Thank you!
Thank you for the great info. My Xbox is now updated with a 1TB SSD. Did lose the Boot up Screen? Any Ideas?
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 best freaking tutorial, amazing bro, you the freaking goat, be careful or I'll kiss you if I see you on the streets
CLI rulez ! Thanks for sharing.
Lol sometimes the GUI just don’t cut it!
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?
This is how it should be perfect instructions cheers also just wondering is there any difference in loading times on the fat Xbox one mode with the SSD ?l?
Thanks! Really appreciate it. As for load times, it honestly wasn’t much of a difference lol. I was hoping it would be blazing fast but it’s about the same. Loading screens in games are slightly faster but nothing amazing.
Great great great tutorial. This work great for me, but I have a concern. I installed a 960 gig SSD from Kingston, but the Xbox is only seeing it as 365 gigs. Is the issue where you have to buy either a 500 gig SSD or 1tb SSD or 2 terabyte SSD still an issue?
Same for me.. did you got a solution ?
Great video! Did an SSD swap and it works great.
Glad you got it working!
@@thefiXfiles do i have to do all this bull honkey or is there a chance i can just hook it up to my xbox and get it to work?
@@ChrisNZXT do you need to cook the pasta in boiling water, or can you eat it strait away without cooking it?
To make sure the console works when I try it, I'm not going to fully reassemble it immediately or plug it in to my TV, instead using a USB capture card to my laptop screen with OBS in that case.
quality video bud. did the xbox load faster with the ssd?
Thanks for the kind words. There wasn’t much of a speed increase. I think loading screens go a little quicker, but it’s still about the same as it was before.
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?
Wow.... im looking days over a days over found a video like this, quickly, simple, and good explaining.
I have a xbox one fat so, tell me why the first ssd wouldn't work??
And i just enter to the microsoft page and the page says me that for the fat versions, i need to install 2 osus wtf, you just installed osu1 and runs perfectly.
I have in mind buying a new hard drive to my xbox.. good video greetings from chile.
Great guide- however, I do not have a startup animation anymore. Is there any way to get it working without yanking it back out?
So the big question . With SSD installed how faster is it ??????????
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.
perfect video! I have a question. I have a 512gb sata3 ssd hard drive, will it work on the xbox or will it give me an error again? thank you!
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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)
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.