An alternative option when reloading the OS - it is possible to re-image the Xbox without holding down the Bind and Eject (and without wiping the NAND memory) which will save gamer accounts - simply install the drive, boot up (without holding the Bind and Eject) and you will see a System Error E106 screen - select Trouble Shooting and then Offline Update (with the USB stick connected) - this method will save your gamer account information while still re-initialising the new hard drive (although games will still need to be reinstalled).
How do the gamer accounts save? are they stored on the system and not the hard-drive? Or do you need to clone the thing. Will you need to login to the accounts again? With the password? I bought an xbox off ebay and it has an account which doesn't need a password to login and it has a lot of games I would like to keep
One thing people forget when they say that you should connect a USB SSD is that the OS is on the Internal drive. Just running the OS off an SSD makes a massive difference to how the Xbox feels to use.
Same with my PS4 Pro. Fitting a 4TB SSD didn't half make a difference. Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt is amazing now. For some reason now it defaults to 4K native resolution too. Had to buy a 4K TV because all the edges were cropped off on my old 1080p TV. Can't complain tho as every game I have now plays in 4K whether it's supported or not. NICE BONUS!! Just watching this as I'll be buying a used Xbox One X soon and will be fitting biggest SSD possible/affordable into it.
I did this just before getting my Series X. Makes a huge speed difference. Load zones in some games disappear. It's also a chance to clean the dust out.
The Xbox One S upgrade video popped into my recommendations 10 months ago and convinced me to subscribe. Nothing to regret and I'm glad to see another video like that one.
Did this swap/upgrade tonight :) I feel like I was phenomenally over-cautious, but it was my first time taking a console down that far. The disassembly and re-assembly went well enough, but my dumb ass brain turned off completely at needing to format my flash drive in NTFS for the OS install 🤦🏻♂️ After getting that right, it worked out fine :)
@@rotcataergeht if your after the speed increase for games only, you will notice little difference between an external SSD compared to a internal SSD. It makes the system much more snappy in the OS with an internal SSD
THANK YOU! Such an easy to follow step-by-step tutorial. I was in a boot loop error, and nothing would work. Xbox no longer supports repairs which was a huge bummer because I didn't want to buy a new one so close to the next gen launch. So I did a hail mary and bought a 1TB Evo 870 for $89 and followed your video. Now my One X rocks! Not only is it fixed, and it's sooo fast now! I can open and close apps as quickly as I can on my S24, basically instantaneously!
@@scottrobinson6971 I had the option to buy both from Gamestop and the guy told me it was a hundred bucks more and only came with a paintjob so I didn't buy it. lol
Thank you for sharing this great video. I've upgraded my Xbox One X with the very same model of SSD last year. However, i didnt force the console entering manual trouble shooting mode. I just powered on and used the controller to select trouble shooting mode to allow installing osu1. The SSD was initialized under windows 10 for consistency and bad sector check before being installed to the console. So i erased the MBR(with PartedMagic) and then installed SSD into the console. It's pretty import to erase MBR to make it as "uninitialized" because too many users encounter E10x. If the SSD is recognized as fresh new(uninitialized) by OSU, there wont be any E10x issues. Just a kind reminder for anyone who wants to perform a SSD mod. For SSD other than Micron Crucial, you can also choose "secure erase" to achieve the same effect. Only Micron Crucial products dont support secure erase. Besides, only buy standard capacity of the following size 500GB/1TB/2TB. Other capacity will neither be fully partitioned nor be properly formatted by OSU,and you might get the annoying E10x.
Amazing video my dude! I have been looking for sometime at different videos to do what you make look easy. Most videos are outdated and say you need to clone your old hard drive or run a script to make the new drive readable by the xbox etc. This is the best tutorial I have seen to date. I also have a repair store but I dont mess with consoles, I have the know how to take them apart and replace parts but the software is what gets me. Im so glad microsoft updated the way to reinstall the os its much easier than it used to be.
The Samsung 970 Evo does about 50MB 4k random reads I think. And considering that it's a 3500MBps sequential reads, notice how those 4k ops aren't _that_ much higher than a cheaper SSD. There's probably faster drives out there, but I don't think you'll find another order of magnitude. These numbers are also just scratching the surface, you've also got to consider write endurance, I/O ops per second, etc etc... But when even 20MBps is 100x faster than a HDD's 0.2MBps for 4k, it's a good tangible figure to explain why SSDs _feel_ so much faster.
Great video. I was a little nervous about changing the mechanical hard drive on my Xbox One X Project Scorpio and I decided to pluge in after watching this video. I decided to go with a Crucial MX 2TB SSD, followed step by step but after turning it up and going to Offline update, I was getting errors E100 - E200 until I remembered that this xbox is on the preview omega, so I went back to a regular system on the old hard drive and after the automatic update pushed by microsoft and then swapping the hd for the SSD, the followings steps for the offline system update were positives. Now thanks to your video I'm enjoying again a faster xbox and even quicker load times for my games. Thanks a lot. Also hoping that my misadventure will help someone that may encounter the same problem I did.
I was gonna go 2TB with my 1X, but I read that you cant do a system reset in the future without it messing something up, if you upgrade from the factory size of the console. Did you just install the ssd and perform the osu update, and thats it? I thought you had to run a script on a larger size that factory.
@@bomb447 Yes, I just brought the original HD to factory reset since I was using the OS for the preview and I was having errors after just 6% into the update. So once I went regular OS, I swapped for the 2TB SSD. No format at all straight from the box. Launched the recovery option as described on the video the two buttons and power on, recovery OSU and let it finish. All is working well and the drive capacity at the end is at 1.6 TB
@@LordVader2K Good to know. If you ever sell the console, or factory reset it, it might not work properly, according to an article I read, can't confirm though. Something to do with resetting to its factory 1TB, instead of the current 2TB, idk.
Anyone who is a fan of open -world and/or expansive games will love this upgrade. Even a relatively simple game (you'd think) like BFV sees a great increase in loading times when going into multiplayer and the like. Also, techy peace of mind that you know the bottleneck will be fully related to the CPU/GPU rather than other controllable factors.
Yassss 🙌🏻 just took the dive on my Xbox one X with a 1tb Evo and it was the most pain free update I've ever done . Ordered myself a SATA to usb3 cable so I can install the Xbox bootup video files next time I can be bothered. What I've noticed ? It's smooth, QUIET, and games load levels and textures super fast. Control is a delight to play now 💓
How did you do with transferring over the xbox start up video? Did you add it to the USB drive? Or do you plan on taking the SSD out and adding it manually?
I know it has been a couple of years for this video but I just did the upgrade and wanted to add a little something. I was getting error E101 during the update process, and after taking the drive out and copying the files many times I read on google that the problem could be the USB drive I was using to run the update from. After trying 3 different brands of USB I was finally able to get it to work properly using a maxell 16gb drive. 1 more thing to add is that the OSU that you download doesn't have the Xbox boot screen, you can either live with that or you can grab it off the old drive and place it on the USB and bob's your uncle. Great video as always.
I did this a couple of weeks ago with instrictions from iFixit, after my One X was refusing to boot with the original HDD and couldn't even install a new image on it. Internet says it's more likely a power supply issue that keeps corrupting the hard drive, but fingers crossed... it's worked so far. Edit: Oh yeah, I must have spent 10 minutes at 17:00, figuring out how to put the top cover on. If you got it wrong, you really had to wrench it out to try again. I was sure I was going to break it.
Bear in mind that every time you perform an offline system update you’ll lose the boot animation/splash screen as the file is not included, however it is included on the monthly online system update, or you could also add it manually but it’s not worth it in my opinion.
Indeed. I copied my boot animation from the outgoing drive, but to be fair the series x boot animation isn't something someone is going to miss, particularly if they have a great sound system... Yeah, I've done THAT at 2 in the morning 🤣 Edit: whoops, I ment one x. The series x boot animation is far easier on the ears, and neighbours lol
@@Robm_ph no sorry, I said series out of error. I actually ment to say the one x boot animation. I've had a quick look however, and can't seem to find it online either
It works and if you are doing using SSD 1 Tera byte that's fine. This new update will recognize the 1 terabyte instead of the former update that only was recognizing 500gb.
I did the swap , thanks for this video! I wasn't aware, but the Xbox One X won't format the drive correctly unless it's exactly 500gb or 1000gb. I wasn't aware of this, you probably said it in the video. I installed a 960GB drive and it formatted as though it was a 500gb leaving 365gb useable. So I took it apart again using your video and installed a 500gb.
Dude your teardown and instructions on how to do this was spot on. I purchased a drive yesterday for my xbox one x. I got the drive today and already installed it. Currently downloading all my games as we speak! Good video man. Subscribed! 10 stars!
Its interesting the different approaches from Sony & Microsoft. With the PS3, PS4 & PS5 (expansion slot at least) the storage is very easily accessable, with no warranty stickers broken to replace that part. Arguably you could also include the PS2, with its expansion slot HDD. Its good that you can still remove HDDs on the Xbox One consoles, but its obvious the console build design wasn't planned with users easily replacing that part. The 360 models were easier to replace, but if you used a third party 2.5" drive I believe it required some preparation with files on HDD etc. Whereas on PS3 & PS4, pop in any 2.5" SATA HDD or SSD, grab a USB for reinstallation file and you are good to go. I swapped a 1TB Crucial MX500 into my base PS4 at the end of 2020. Despite that model PS4 being limited to SATA2, it is still a good upgrade over my old 1TB HDD. Typically load times are reduced by about a 3rd (eg 1m rather than 1m30s) but some games, like 'Death Stranding', loading the same save from main menu was about 1/2 the HDD speed (SSD 36.81s vs 66.19s HDD). Along with general system performance (the PS4 UI is comparatively pretty sluggish on HDD), improved response when taking video clips, some texture load improvements etc. All in, I've been very happy with the result. I think I swapped my PS3 HDD once or twice. I started on a 80GB drive in my 'phat' and when my 2nd PS3 died (yeah 2nd), it was on a 320GB HDD. I replaced my dead 'super slim' PS3 with a used, but boxed slim 160GB and just left the original HDD in there. I still have the 320GB drive, I use it as a spare backup drive in a USB 3.0 enclosure. I used a 640GB HDD in an enclosure, old drive from my old laptop for backup, when I swapped the PS4 internal drives. It allowed me to copy most of my installed games over, saving me from having to reinstall discs, and the PS4s old 1TB HDD is also now in an enclosure and is basically a data mule for the SSD, as its relatively quick to copy things back & forth.
I got a Ps4 slim at the beginning of 2022 for a killer deal and have been thinking of putting an SSD in it because it will make it faster and it’s super simple. About 2 weeks ago I bought an Xbox One X that I thought just needed to update offline for another awesome deal but going through the process of using the usb I got for the SSD upgrade in my PlayStation and it didn’t work. I’m either going to by an SSD and try to make my Xbox One X work, and better than it did originally but if it doesn’t work I would’ve have wasted money buying an SSD because I’ll just put it in my PlayStation.
@@retrochi71 The USB stick didn't work with the XB1X? You tried all the USB ports? Not sure about Xbox, but for the PS4 when using the update file and console reinstallation files, Sony's guide page specifically mention using FAT32 formatting on the USB (along with specific file & folder names). Maybe the Xbox needs that, or possibly exFAT formatting. Alternatively, if possible you could try another USB stick. Hopefully you'll be able to work it out, good luck with both consoles. If you do run into issues, the reddit for PS4 & XB1 could be a useful place to ask.
Did this for my model and at least I know that even if it's not as fast as what the new consoles do with SSD's, I alt least know the SSD will last longer than the stock hard drive
Late to the game but just did this with a 2TB SSD Sandisk and works like a champ. Thank you! I really love the ability to still play 3d movies on the xbox one s and x and the optical for stereo connections directly from the machine vs hdmi splitting audio from video.
what brand/type of flash drive did you use? I know im using a 3.0 PNY flash drive w/ 16gb of space, formatted to NTFS..but the "offline update" selection is blurred out and I cannot scroll over to it. thanks
2:58 image if it was that easy indeed I like that they made it that easy to upgrade or replace the ssd for the xbox series X now hopefully they continue that practice for future consoles generations great video! 👍
I thought the HDD was married to the board and such. Thanks for this video, mate. I think I can repair an old console I have lying down somewhere, with this.
This was the best video on the topic and helped so much. I've spent the past 4 hours fiddling with shit trying to re-format shit on my computer, downloading shit and messing with coding. All I had to do was slap 'er in. I feel like such a fool. Great video!
Someone asked me if I could do this upgrade to his Xbox One X. I told him when I learn how to do that I will call him. Guess what I just learned. Thanks Graham.
I am really glad I found this video. I have been thinking about replacing our old reliable 360, and while the Series X is a beast, it seems it's not so easy to connect to legacy TV's (use our 360 on a 55" 1080p Panasonic Viera THX Plasma) and receivers (in my case, a 2006 Marantz SR7500). The Series X are also still very expensive here in Canada and because of this, I have been thinking of finding a second-hand One X. Partially because they allow optical audio out, and also because they are $200-275 used now. I would view this as more of a console evolution (a bridge before getting say, an LG OLED TV and compatible AVR to use with a Series X down the road) and knowing you can SSD swap a One X makes this seem like an even better idea. Excellent video Sir, and I will use it as a reference for when/if I grab a One X, and want to hotrod it!
To follow-up, I did buy a one-owner, casually used One X for around $200, and I have just bought a WD Blue SA510 1tb SSD (everywhere near me was sold out of the Crucial units, and the computer shop said the WD is totally on par). I am hoping I can do the same thing...just swap the drive, and download and install the Offline System Update files like this video and call it a day. If all goes well, I will come back and let you, and your viewers know.
@13:00 if it's never been open and you've had it since launch or bought one from eBay do a repaste regardless it takes away any chance of overheating and gets rid of the Tim that has surely turned into concrete / Chalk by now. It'll prolong the life of this console a lil longer.
Great job on the little details like flat vs rounded screws to release the lower chassis as well as how to get the top cover back on without the need for maidens or firstborns. Two things I would make note of are 1. as far as clearing dust, an air compressor should only be used if you know it has dehumidified air, as rust spatting can be a consequence of a poorly maintained compressor; and 2. the flash drive is supposed to be formatted as NTFS to the best of my knowledge. Worst case for dusting, you can use an unused paint brush and get it pretty well. I got my cousin's One X torn down and tested only to find that it's a retimer chip that went stupid :/ I have all of the soldering tools needed except for an adequate heat gun, which I haven't the budget for at this moment (aiming for the Quick that Louis Rossmann recommends).
Replacing parts in the One X or just clean it, is one of the most easiest things. For myself Im cleaning the cooling fan right now and will replace the thermal pads for the CPU and put some new thermal paste on it.
#1, if you lag on streaming video/youtube, this will help huge. I was only able to stream in 420p without buffering, i can hit 720p now. Not to mention things load faster and it runs much smoother for sure.
I use to solely use MX500's or BX500's in SSD upgrades a good offerable drive, but after the treatment, I got as a business doing a warranty claim (The claim was for a 2TB drive that was misreporting hrs on & TBW, latest firmware & Crucial Storage Executive) for a business client of mine recently with phone calls to America from Australia as they wouldn't respond to email contact, I now refuse to promote their products & only use Samsung SSD's although their Samsung Magician software doesn't work very well on most older pc systems in my experience why I don't know on modern systems all's good.
This guide was great, but I wanted to mention a hiccup I had. Initially I did not have the option to update offline from the first USB drive I used. This is a known working drive, but the Xbox wanted nothing to do with it. I used an old 16gb USB 2.0 stick I had laying around and it worked right away. So if the option is grayed out for you at first, try a different drive.
Customer had their saves in the cloud, so clean-install was fine. Old HDD, tbh I'd scrap it. IMHO, hard drives aren't good for anything these days. SSDs are affordable.
Thank god microsoft allows for easy drive swapping with the newest software version. I remember you had to download a tool to format and add OS files onto your replacement drive before putting it into the console.
Oh wow. I was worried about that. I'm glad I watched this video and saw this comment in particular. I just canceled a order for a sata3 to usb. U just saved me 10$ man! Lolz
PS4 is easier to upgrade to SSD. Was it not possible to copy the data from the old drive to a extern drive and after you doen the install. Put the old data in the SSD?
Have still yet to look into this, but my advice is to clean-install if possible, as you can make sure there's no junk or gremlins hanging around. Cloning might not be an option if the old drive has failed as well. If you _need_ to preserve all installed games / saves, then cloning would definitely be the way forward though, yes.
I have a question. How are you able to record the screens of computers you are testing? I know that you are using a capture card to do that but is there any program you use in order for it to show up on the computer you are using to record?
I record everything into OBS Studio, which can capture basically anything connected to the computer. You can either switch scenes while recording (just like how a streamer switches consoles, welcome, brb scenes) or what I do is record in 4k, with four 1080p streams in a 2x2 grid, then at editing I split it into 4x 1080p videos and then I can 'switch cameras' in editing as if it had all been recorded separately.
Quick question I've been all over the internet. I'm trying to figure out what the maximum size of an SSD drive for the one x ? 🤔 Could I install a 4tb SSD and follow these instructions and still work.
i just recently got that SSD for my pc as an upgrade from a 1TB WD HD. cant say ive noticed my pc start faster or anything but im sure it does... seriously tempted to do same for my xbox one but likely will wait till i need to open it for cleaning or something. just glad there is the option and a vid covering it to be honest.
I have an Xbox One I got from my nephew, it would crash a lot, then would go to green screen and stick on start up. He ended up getting a new Xbox one X. I pulled the hard drive out of the xbox one, ran a HDD test program on it on my pc and found it was indeed Bad. I orderd a new 1TB ssd for maybe a hair over $100. Installed it into the xbox one, had to use a thumb drive to upload a file to the xbox so it would format the new SSD and now the xbox one runs better than it did when it was new and loads game much faster than my nephews xbox one x. When his warranty runs out I will put a SSD in his.
The default setting for USB pens in windows is write caching disabled so you do not need to use safely eject, just yank it out :-) You only really need to use safely eject if you have enabled write caching (Better performance)!
I see people loose their data far too often to roll those dice! I know that with write caching off, the chances of something happening are super slim, but it's good practise to just always safely eject. Takes two seconds to click the safe-remove button.
Hey I recently done this but without wiping the nand memory, it runs normal tho except missing xbox splash screen and my gamerpicture wont show up either?
If you have a special edition console will you need to install a separate file for the power on/off and disc eject button sound effects? I have the forza blue xbone and want to keep the engine sounds
Not sure if this is an old thread but I've just bought a used Xbox one X which was disgusting inside and decided to upgrade to an ssd aaaand no joy.. purchased a new kingston 960gb and that didn't work and then tried a crucial bx1tb and that failed to work.. i purchased a new 32gb 3.0 thumb drive which i quick formatted to NTFS and downloaded the recommended offline unzipped file and followed the instructions but after 1percent of running the system update the update failed tried it several times but gave up in the end and just re installed the original harddrive.. 😞😞
Yes but it's better to get a clean install, as the files are set for said storage capacity from the previous drive and other stuff that just makes this impractical, it works, but it's better to just let the xbox set the ssd completely new
That new jingle is specific to the Let's Build series, but as soon as I get around to it, I'm talking to Synthis (the composer) to get my very own jingle 👌 Just need to collate some examples to tell him what I want!
An alternative option when reloading the OS - it is possible to re-image the Xbox without holding down the Bind and Eject (and without wiping the NAND memory) which will save gamer accounts - simply install the drive, boot up (without holding the Bind and Eject) and you will see a System Error E106 screen - select Trouble Shooting and then Offline Update (with the USB stick connected) - this method will save your gamer account information while still re-initialising the new hard drive (although games will still need to be reinstalled).
hey my update is failing.
@@InfamousReptillian420 format the device and reinstall everything
@@mathiuseden9605 I tried that i think it's probably bc my xbox mobo encountered a spill lol
@@mathiuseden9605 format the flash drive and reinstall the OS?
I'm having the same problem with the OS installation
How do the gamer accounts save? are they stored on the system and not the hard-drive? Or do you need to clone the thing.
Will you need to login to the accounts again? With the password? I bought an xbox off ebay and it has an account which doesn't need a password to login and it has a lot of games I would like to keep
One thing people forget when they say that you should connect a USB SSD is that the OS is on the Internal drive. Just running the OS off an SSD makes a massive difference to how the Xbox feels to use.
Same with my PS4 Pro. Fitting a 4TB SSD didn't half make a difference. Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt is amazing now. For some reason now it defaults to 4K native resolution too. Had to buy a 4K TV because all the edges were cropped off on my old 1080p TV. Can't complain tho as every game I have now plays in 4K whether it's supported or not. NICE BONUS!!
Just watching this as I'll be buying a used Xbox One X soon and will be fitting biggest SSD possible/affordable into it.
I did this just before getting my Series X. Makes a huge speed difference. Load zones in some games disappear. It's also a chance to clean the dust out.
You mean one X?
@@50H3i1 he means he put an ssd into a prior generation xbox before getting a SERIES X
@@hypotheticallywhatiskyle he edited the comment
The Xbox One S upgrade video popped into my recommendations 10 months ago and convinced me to subscribe. Nothing to regret and I'm glad to see another video like that one.
Did this swap/upgrade tonight :) I feel like I was phenomenally over-cautious, but it was my first time taking a console down that far. The disassembly and re-assembly went well enough, but my dumb ass brain turned off completely at needing to format my flash drive in NTFS for the OS install 🤦🏻♂️ After getting that right, it worked out fine :)
speed increase worth it?
@@rotcataergeht if your after the speed increase for games only, you will notice little difference between an external SSD compared to a internal SSD. It makes the system much more snappy in the OS with an internal SSD
You mean FAT32 for the USB flash pen
THANK YOU! Such an easy to follow step-by-step tutorial. I was in a boot loop error, and nothing would work. Xbox no longer supports repairs which was a huge bummer because I didn't want to buy a new one so close to the next gen launch. So I did a hail mary and bought a 1TB Evo 870 for $89 and followed your video. Now my One X rocks! Not only is it fixed, and it's sooo fast now! I can open and close apps as quickly as I can on my S24, basically instantaneously!
The Project Scorpio One X was a limited edition version that was available for pre-order and at launch
I updated my Project Scorpio to an SSD 6 months ago, made a night and day difference :)
It also cost a hundred dollars more and came with nothing more than a paintjob. lol
@@CreamyI3eaver literally cost no more than the normal one x
@@scottrobinson6971 I had the option to buy both from Gamestop and the guy told me it was a hundred bucks more and only came with a paintjob so I didn't buy it. lol
@@CreamyI3eaver you’ve been had bro
Thank you for sharing this great video. I've upgraded my Xbox One X with the very same model of SSD last year. However, i didnt force the console entering manual trouble shooting mode. I just powered on and used the controller to select trouble shooting mode to allow installing osu1. The SSD was initialized under windows 10 for consistency and bad sector check before being installed to the console. So i erased the MBR(with PartedMagic) and then installed SSD into the console. It's pretty import to erase MBR to make it as "uninitialized" because too many users encounter E10x. If the SSD is recognized as fresh new(uninitialized) by OSU, there wont be any E10x issues. Just a kind reminder for anyone who wants to perform a SSD mod. For SSD other than Micron Crucial, you can also choose "secure erase" to achieve the same effect. Only Micron Crucial products dont support secure erase. Besides, only buy standard capacity of the following size 500GB/1TB/2TB. Other capacity will neither be fully partitioned nor be properly formatted by OSU,and you might get the annoying E10x.
Amazing video my dude! I have been looking for sometime at different videos to do what you make look easy. Most videos are outdated and say you need to clone your old hard drive or run a script to make the new drive readable by the xbox etc. This is the best tutorial I have seen to date. I also have a repair store but I dont mess with consoles, I have the know how to take them apart and replace parts but the software is what gets me. Im so glad microsoft updated the way to reinstall the os its much easier than it used to be.
Great explanation of what actually makes an SSD fast
For comparison sake what is the 4K read speed of a PCIE gen 3/4 NVME SSD?
The Samsung 970 Evo does about 50MB 4k random reads I think. And considering that it's a 3500MBps sequential reads, notice how those 4k ops aren't _that_ much higher than a cheaper SSD. There's probably faster drives out there, but I don't think you'll find another order of magnitude.
These numbers are also just scratching the surface, you've also got to consider write endurance, I/O ops per second, etc etc... But when even 20MBps is 100x faster than a HDD's 0.2MBps for 4k, it's a good tangible figure to explain why SSDs _feel_ so much faster.
@@Adamant_IT interesting. Thanks
Great video. I was a little nervous about changing the mechanical hard drive on my Xbox One X Project Scorpio and I decided to pluge in after watching this video. I decided to go with a Crucial MX 2TB SSD, followed step by step but after turning it up and going to Offline update, I was getting errors E100 - E200 until I remembered that this xbox is on the preview omega, so I went back to a regular system on the old hard drive and after the automatic update pushed by microsoft and then swapping the hd for the SSD, the followings steps for the offline system update were positives.
Now thanks to your video I'm enjoying again a faster xbox and even quicker load times for my games.
Thanks a lot. Also hoping that my misadventure will help someone that may encounter
the same problem I did.
I was gonna go 2TB with my 1X, but I read that you cant do a system reset in the future without it messing something up, if you upgrade from the factory size of the console. Did you just install the ssd and perform the osu update, and thats it? I thought you had to run a script on a larger size that factory.
@@bomb447 Yes, I just brought the original HD to factory reset since I was using the OS for the preview and I was having errors after just 6% into the update. So once I went regular OS, I swapped for the 2TB SSD. No format at all straight from the box. Launched the recovery option as described on the video the two buttons and power on, recovery OSU and let it finish. All is working well and the drive capacity at the end is at 1.6 TB
@@LordVader2K Good to know. If you ever sell the console, or factory reset it, it might not work properly, according to an article I read, can't confirm though. Something to do with resetting to its factory 1TB, instead of the current 2TB, idk.
Anyone who is a fan of open -world and/or expansive games will love this upgrade. Even a relatively simple game (you'd think) like BFV sees a great increase in loading times when going into multiplayer and the like. Also, techy peace of mind that you know the bottleneck will be fully related to the CPU/GPU rather than other controllable factors.
Good comment thanks friend!
Yassss 🙌🏻 just took the dive on my Xbox one X with a 1tb Evo and it was the most pain free update I've ever done . Ordered myself a SATA to usb3 cable so I can install the Xbox bootup video files next time I can be bothered.
What I've noticed ? It's smooth, QUIET, and games load levels and textures super fast. Control is a delight to play now 💓
How did you do with transferring over the xbox start up video? Did you add it to the USB drive? Or do you plan on taking the SSD out and adding it manually?
I know it has been a couple of years for this video but I just did the upgrade and wanted to add a little something. I was getting error E101 during the update process, and after taking the drive out and copying the files many times I read on google that the problem could be the USB drive I was using to run the update from. After trying 3 different brands of USB I was finally able to get it to work properly using a maxell 16gb drive. 1 more thing to add is that the OSU that you download doesn't have the Xbox boot screen, you can either live with that or you can grab it off the old drive and place it on the USB and bob's your uncle. Great video as always.
Best tutorials explained to 100. New subscriber without a doubt.
I did this a couple of weeks ago with instrictions from iFixit, after my One X was refusing to boot with the original HDD and couldn't even install a new image on it. Internet says it's more likely a power supply issue that keeps corrupting the hard drive, but fingers crossed... it's worked so far.
Edit: Oh yeah, I must have spent 10 minutes at 17:00, figuring out how to put the top cover on. If you got it wrong, you really had to wrench it out to try again. I was sure I was going to break it.
Dude same thing, I had to back up and rewatch video.
Thanks for the video, just put a Crucial 2TB SSD in my One X. Cheers!
Great video. This was a lot easier than I would have thought. Thanks for taking your time and explaining what you were doing along the way.
Bear in mind that every time you perform an offline system update you’ll lose the boot animation/splash screen as the file is not included, however it is included on the monthly online system update, or you could also add it manually but it’s not worth it in my opinion.
Indeed. I copied my boot animation from the outgoing drive, but to be fair the series x boot animation isn't something someone is going to miss, particularly if they have a great sound system...
Yeah, I've done THAT at 2 in the morning 🤣
Edit: whoops, I ment one x. The series x boot animation is far easier on the ears, and neighbours lol
This happened to me when I upgraded my One X. A few days later the animation was back without me doing anything. Good times.
@@YouNameItGaming Hi ! did you find the Series X boot animation dat file ? if yes can you share it please ?
@@Robm_ph no sorry, I said series out of error. I actually ment to say the one x boot animation.
I've had a quick look however, and can't seem to find it online either
@@YouNameItGaming is it possible to get the One X animation on the One S for example though? Maybe it'll work but just wipe with the next update
It works and if you are doing using SSD 1 Tera byte that's fine. This new update will recognize the 1 terabyte instead of the former update that only was recognizing 500gb.
I forgot how calming are your videos to me! Thank you for continuing to post content.
I did the swap , thanks for this video! I wasn't aware, but the Xbox One X won't format the drive correctly unless it's exactly 500gb or 1000gb. I wasn't aware of this, you probably said it in the video. I installed a 960GB drive and it formatted as though it was a 500gb leaving 365gb useable. So I took it apart again using your video and installed a 500gb.
This worked to perfection. Clear and precise instructions. Thanks Mate!
how’s the performance been since?
@@SimplyTrashed excellent. fast load times now.
Just did this upgrade tonight. It worked perfect. Thanks for the video.
Nicely done video. Detailed, yet concise and it worked with no surprises.
Dude your teardown and instructions on how to do this was spot on. I purchased a drive yesterday for my xbox one x. I got the drive today and already installed it. Currently downloading all my games as we speak! Good video man. Subscribed! 10 stars!
7mon in, how's it going for u?
@@tevinparker8189 I did this 7 months back.
@@NeoEmc2 how's your Xbox holding up so far?
@@tevinparker8189 like a boss. Everything works perfect. Games load ultra fast. Fast travel in rpgs is great too.
Thank you so much. Very accessible walkthrough that was surprisingly straight to the point. Subscribed!
Its interesting the different approaches from Sony & Microsoft. With the PS3, PS4 & PS5 (expansion slot at least) the storage is very easily accessable, with no warranty stickers broken to replace that part. Arguably you could also include the PS2, with its expansion slot HDD.
Its good that you can still remove HDDs on the Xbox One consoles, but its obvious the console build design wasn't planned with users easily replacing that part. The 360 models were easier to replace, but if you used a third party 2.5" drive I believe it required some preparation with files on HDD etc. Whereas on PS3 & PS4, pop in any 2.5" SATA HDD or SSD, grab a USB for reinstallation file and you are good to go.
I swapped a 1TB Crucial MX500 into my base PS4 at the end of 2020. Despite that model PS4 being limited to SATA2, it is still a good upgrade over my old 1TB HDD. Typically load times are reduced by about a 3rd (eg 1m rather than 1m30s) but some games, like 'Death Stranding', loading the same save from main menu was about 1/2 the HDD speed (SSD 36.81s vs 66.19s HDD). Along with general system performance (the PS4 UI is comparatively pretty sluggish on HDD), improved response when taking video clips, some texture load improvements etc. All in, I've been very happy with the result.
I think I swapped my PS3 HDD once or twice. I started on a 80GB drive in my 'phat' and when my 2nd PS3 died (yeah 2nd), it was on a 320GB HDD. I replaced my dead 'super slim' PS3 with a used, but boxed slim 160GB and just left the original HDD in there. I still have the 320GB drive, I use it as a spare backup drive in a USB 3.0 enclosure. I used a 640GB HDD in an enclosure, old drive from my old laptop for backup, when I swapped the PS4 internal drives. It allowed me to copy most of my installed games over, saving me from having to reinstall discs, and the PS4s old 1TB HDD is also now in an enclosure and is basically a data mule for the SSD, as its relatively quick to copy things back & forth.
I got a Ps4 slim at the beginning of 2022 for a killer deal and have been thinking of putting an SSD in it because it will make it faster and it’s super simple. About 2 weeks ago I bought an Xbox One X that I thought just needed to update offline for another awesome deal but going through the process of using the usb I got for the SSD upgrade in my PlayStation and it didn’t work. I’m either going to by an SSD and try to make my Xbox One X work, and better than it did originally but if it doesn’t work I would’ve have wasted money buying an SSD because I’ll just put it in my PlayStation.
@@retrochi71 The USB stick didn't work with the XB1X? You tried all the USB ports? Not sure about Xbox, but for the PS4 when using the update file and console reinstallation files, Sony's guide page specifically mention using FAT32 formatting on the USB (along with specific file & folder names). Maybe the Xbox needs that, or possibly exFAT formatting. Alternatively, if possible you could try another USB stick.
Hopefully you'll be able to work it out, good luck with both consoles. If you do run into issues, the reddit for PS4 & XB1 could be a useful place to ask.
Bit late to this party, but you just saved me $50 at the local repair shop to upgun my X1X to a 2TB SSD. Hitting the Patreon to show my appreciation.
Did this for my model and at least I know that even if it's not as fast as what the new consoles do with SSD's, I alt least know the SSD will last longer than the stock hard drive
Late to the game but just did this with a 2TB SSD Sandisk and works like a champ. Thank you! I really love the ability to still play 3d movies on the xbox one s and x and the optical for stereo connections directly from the machine vs hdmi splitting audio from video.
what brand/type of flash drive did you use? I know im using a 3.0 PNY flash drive w/ 16gb of space, formatted to NTFS..but the "offline update" selection is blurred out and I cannot scroll over to it. thanks
@@maisumrizvi8244 SanDisk - Ultra 2TB Internal SATA Solid State Drive
Model:SDSSDH3-2T00-G25SKU:5969504
2:58 image if it was that easy indeed I like that they made it that easy to upgrade or replace the ssd for the xbox series X now hopefully they continue that practice for future consoles generations great video! 👍
I thought the HDD was married to the board and such. Thanks for this video, mate. I think I can repair an old console I have lying down somewhere, with this.
This was the best video on the topic and helped so much. I've spent the past 4 hours fiddling with shit trying to re-format shit on my computer, downloading shit and messing with coding. All I had to do was slap 'er in. I feel like such a fool. Great video!
Clear and concise, thank you Adam Ant
Thanks for the extra tutorial about how to download and reinstall software. Will buy an SSD and come back to your video for reference.
8mo in, how's it going for u?
Thanks a lot! My Xbox is up and running again after years of misery
Can confirm. Have that exact SSD for my (PC) games. Cheap (enough) at around 100 bucks for 1TB, and games load quickly enough.
Best tutorial, I just swapped mine now installing the games. (1 terra Twinmos ssd)
Someone asked me if I could do this upgrade to his Xbox One X. I told him when I learn how to do that I will call him. Guess what I just learned. Thanks Graham.
I am really glad I found this video. I have been thinking about replacing our old reliable 360, and while the Series X is a beast, it seems it's not so easy to connect to legacy TV's (use our 360 on a 55" 1080p Panasonic Viera THX Plasma) and receivers (in my case, a 2006 Marantz SR7500). The Series X are also still very expensive here in Canada and because of this, I have been thinking of finding a second-hand One X. Partially because they allow optical audio out, and also because they are $200-275 used now. I would view this as more of a console evolution (a bridge before getting say, an LG OLED TV and compatible AVR to use with a Series X down the road) and knowing you can SSD swap a One X makes this seem like an even better idea.
Excellent video Sir, and I will use it as a reference for when/if I grab a One X, and want to hotrod it!
To follow-up, I did buy a one-owner, casually used One X for around $200, and I have just bought a WD Blue SA510 1tb SSD (everywhere near me was sold out of the Crucial units, and the computer shop said the WD is totally on par). I am hoping I can do the same thing...just swap the drive, and download and install the Offline System Update files like this video and call it a day. If all goes well, I will come back and let you, and your viewers know.
Loving your content at the moment
this video was brilliant as much as i only play pc it will help one day if a mate wants me to do a repair for him like this one. brilliant work :)
you are a miracle man, thanks for everything.
@13:00 if it's never been open and you've had it since launch or bought one from eBay do a repaste regardless it takes away any chance of overheating and gets rid of the Tim that has surely turned into concrete / Chalk by now. It'll prolong the life of this console a lil longer.
Plus a repaste is a good 'while you're in there' thing to do as well.
Excellent video Adamant IT.
Thank you.👍👍👏👏
Extremely informative video. Great job
Great job on the little details like flat vs rounded screws to release the lower chassis as well as how to get the top cover back on without the need for maidens or firstborns. Two things I would make note of are 1. as far as clearing dust, an air compressor should only be used if you know it has dehumidified air, as rust spatting can be a consequence of a poorly maintained compressor; and 2. the flash drive is supposed to be formatted as NTFS to the best of my knowledge. Worst case for dusting, you can use an unused paint brush and get it pretty well.
I got my cousin's One X torn down and tested only to find that it's a retimer chip that went stupid :/ I have all of the soldering tools needed except for an adequate heat gun, which I haven't the budget for at this moment (aiming for the Quick that Louis Rossmann recommends).
Great video Graham, nice work
Replacing parts in the One X or just clean it, is one of the most easiest things. For myself Im cleaning the cooling fan right now and will replace the thermal pads for the CPU and put some new thermal paste on it.
#1, if you lag on streaming video/youtube, this will help huge. I was only able to stream in 420p without buffering, i can hit 720p now. Not to mention things load faster and it runs much smoother for sure.
Well done mate.
Graham Lord .. love it 👍
I just watched all of this and I don't even have an Xbone! Interesting all the same :)
Hi thank you. I did this step by step put a Samsung sdd in my Xbox one x download the software all work brilliant. Easy to follow
Was the process simple to do?😮
Yes just follow the video. Pretty easy
I use to solely use MX500's or BX500's in SSD upgrades a good offerable drive, but after the treatment, I got as a business doing a warranty claim (The claim was for a 2TB drive that was misreporting hrs on & TBW, latest firmware & Crucial Storage Executive) for a business client of mine recently with phone calls to America from Australia as they wouldn't respond to email contact, I now refuse to promote their products & only use Samsung SSD's although their Samsung Magician software doesn't work very well on most older pc systems in my experience why I don't know on modern systems all's good.
Thaanks! I just finished it and my Xbox is alive again!! I thought I lost it.! I just bought a series s and am glad I have 4k back!
Project Scorpio was the first release and was limited edition to the first so many buyers
Thanks 100% for the information
fantastic tutorial!! thank you so much !
Xbox更换固态硬盘非常详细，学习到了 ，支持一下。
You can always install external usb 3 ssd and an internal ssd for best performance.
This guide was great, but I wanted to mention a hiccup I had. Initially I did not have the option to update offline from the first USB drive I used. This is a known working drive, but the Xbox wanted nothing to do with it. I used an old 16gb USB 2.0 stick I had laying around and it worked right away. So if the option is grayed out for you at first, try a different drive.
what kind of usb drive did you use initially?
@@JuanJimenez. A usb 3 Sandisk Ultra 64gb
@@raikiri23 shoot, i'm using the same drive but in 32gb. Hopefully this can work if not i'm forced to use another drive :
@@JuanJimenez. Hopefully it's just mine specifically. Good luck
@@raikiri23 it worked 👍
Do I follow the same steps installing a SSD into the OG xbox one?
I did this for my Xbox too and while it does work well with games, I love have a speedy media streaming box in my room.
Was there anything on the old HDD? What about save games? What are you going to do with the HDD?
Customer had their saves in the cloud, so clean-install was fine. Old HDD, tbh I'd scrap it. IMHO, hard drives aren't good for anything these days. SSDs are affordable.
Thank god microsoft allows for easy drive swapping with the newest software version. I remember you had to download a tool to format and add OS files onto your replacement drive before putting it into the console.
Oh wow. I was worried about that. I'm glad I watched this video and saw this comment in particular. I just canceled a order for a sata3 to usb. U just saved me 10$ man! Lolz
@@TheCoJackProject While I haven't confirmed myself it definitely seems like it's much easier now. Curious how it goes for you!
PS4 and PS4 pro thermal paste both went bad on me at end of warranty period. Going this deep it makes sense to replace.
'Rust' is a game that loves an SSD.. loads in 1 minute vs 10 minutes off a HDD 😂
It rhymes
Why not imaging the existing HDD and writing it to the SSD?
Sometimes you are replacing the HDD because it has errors. I am not sure if cloning works on the xbox HDD swap. .
What do you think about the samsung 870 QVO for the xbox one x? I know that the EVO is a better drive but would it be worth it for a console?
PS4 is easier to upgrade to SSD. Was it not possible to copy the data from the old drive to a extern drive and after you doen the install. Put the old data in the SSD?
thank you well explained
Ok I was doing this step by step but after doing the offline install and first time assistant I'm only getting a black screen after reboot. any ideas?
Wouldnt cloning the old drive onto the SSD be easier?
Have still yet to look into this, but my advice is to clean-install if possible, as you can make sure there's no junk or gremlins hanging around. Cloning might not be an option if the old drive has failed as well.
If you _need_ to preserve all installed games / saves, then cloning would definitely be the way forward though, yes.
@@Adamant_IT Do you still have the typical One X boot animation after your clean install?
Thanks for your helpful video!
what about the games installed on the old HDD? Is there any method to put everyting from the old HDD to the SSD?
Great video.
Did you add the boot sceen file?
I clone to a SSD and offline update doesn't work and it only starts up fully booting to home page when I put the old drive back in.
Just done mine, found out the hard drive needs to be blank before putting it in. I reused an SSD that had win 10 on it and kept getting errors.
When you did the offline system update with usb flash drive what kind of usb you used 2.0 or 3.0?
I have a question. How are you able to record the screens of computers you are testing? I know that you are using a capture card to do that but is there any program you use in order for it to show up on the computer you are using to record?
I record everything into OBS Studio, which can capture basically anything connected to the computer.
You can either switch scenes while recording (just like how a streamer switches consoles, welcome, brb scenes) or what I do is record in 4k, with four 1080p streams in a 2x2 grid, then at editing I split it into 4x 1080p videos and then I can 'switch cameras' in editing as if it had all been recorded separately.
Quick question I've been all over the internet. I'm trying to figure out what the maximum size of an SSD drive for the one x ? 🤔 Could I install a 4tb SSD and follow these instructions and still work.
2TB is the max capacity an Xbox will support internally.
Wouldnt it be easier just to clone the xbox hdd to the ssd and plug it in?
thank you for your video, I'll go ahead and do what you did, and hope it works for me, wish me luck.
Trying to put the ribbon back was an nightmare for me when reassembling it
Inserting it before screwing back the PCB is always easier. 😉
"United Kingdom, none those American rubbish" - Graham Lord. Reminded me of a lot about Dave from EEV blog.
I picked up far too many of Dave's catchphrases 😅
21:04 i want use this as my loading splash screen chime😹😹
Perfect tutorial thank you
i just recently got that SSD for my pc as an upgrade from a 1TB WD HD. cant say ive noticed my pc start faster or anything but im sure it does... seriously tempted to do same for my xbox one but likely will wait till i need to open it for cleaning or something. just glad there is the option and a vid covering it to be honest.
Is the OS on the SSD though?
I have an Xbox One I got from my nephew, it would crash a lot, then would go to green screen and stick on start up. He ended up getting a new Xbox one X. I pulled the hard drive out of the xbox one, ran a HDD test program on it on my pc and found it was indeed Bad. I orderd a new 1TB ssd for maybe a hair over $100. Installed it into the xbox one, had to use a thumb drive to upload a file to the xbox so it would format the new SSD and now the xbox one runs better than it did when it was new and loads game much faster than my nephews xbox one x. When his warranty runs out I will put a SSD in his.
The default setting for USB pens in windows is write caching disabled so you do not need to use safely eject, just yank it out :-)
You only really need to use safely eject if you have enabled write caching (Better performance)!
I see people loose their data far too often to roll those dice! I know that with write caching off, the chances of something happening are super slim, but it's good practise to just always safely eject. Takes two seconds to click the safe-remove button.
Hey I recently done this but without wiping the nand memory, it runs normal tho except missing xbox splash screen and my gamerpicture wont show up either?
If you have a special edition console will you need to install a separate file for the power on/off and disc eject button sound effects? I have the forza blue xbone and want to keep the engine sounds
Not sure if this is an old thread but I've just bought a used Xbox one X which was disgusting inside and decided to upgrade to an ssd aaaand no joy.. purchased a new kingston 960gb and that didn't work and then tried a crucial bx1tb and that failed to work.. i purchased a new 32gb 3.0 thumb drive which i quick formatted to NTFS and downloaded the recommended offline unzipped file and followed the instructions but after 1percent of running the system update the update failed tried it several times but gave up in the end and just re installed the original harddrive.. 😞😞
Can you simply “clone” via an external HDD/SSD drive caddy as well, rather then manually downloading the MS XBox drive software?
yes
Yes but it's better to get a clean install, as the files are set for said storage capacity from the previous drive and other stuff that just makes this impractical, it works, but it's better to just let the xbox set the ssd completely new
Hello. Is the gameplay also faster with ssd?
Possibly a silly question but, does this install the One X variant of the dash?
i tried this last week but my xbox kept kicking the update off, would that be because of a faulty ssd by any chance?
What’s happened to the new jingle? (Or have the recent videos been waiting in the wings?)
That new jingle is specific to the Let's Build series, but as soon as I get around to it, I'm talking to Synthis (the composer) to get my very own jingle 👌
Just need to collate some examples to tell him what I want!
教程看起来非常仔细 👍