Great vid! My son got a new Xbox Series X and we decided to give new life to the old one, a One S, by swapping out the hard drive in favor of a 2TB SSD. Your instructions are spot on and made disassembly easy. The only difference is that our One S did not have the three extra screws holding the cover on. I believe this may be due to you having what appears to be the Xbox One S digital only edition (no Blu-ray drive). Our One S has the Blu-ray drive in that large open space between the fan and hard drive; on yours you can see directly onto the motherboard. Once put back together I downloaded the OSU1 file, deployed it to a flash drive, inserted it into the Xbox, booted up, and it ran through setup like a champ. Up and running in less than an hour. Thank you James!
I installed a SSD in my OG XB1 and it’s great and super easy. The UI is smoother and load time are slightly better. SATA 2 is a bummer but there is a noticeable difference. It’s quieter and cooler now.
It is great to see you back my man! - for a tip, I upgraded to SSD as well but was part of developer/ insider program!! So you have to do a few steps first or it won't work- in this case you have to go to the insider hub and unregister your console from the program, after you do this it should prompt a restart and update- if it does not then you will have to manually restart and then it should update --- after that you are able to follow this tutorial and swap regularly ( and Yes you can re register your console to the program after you swap)
The three screws in the front is because you have a digital edition xbox one s without the disk drive it is to secure it down where the disk drive would have been.
After doing this upgrade, you had no issues with using the machine? Microsoft doesn't see that you have upgraded the internals and lock the system remotely or something silly, correct?
I just installed and ssd into my old xbox one s. It was the best decision i have ever made! The UI is smoother and the loading time of everything drastically decreased. I don't know, but some games work better... or is just my imagination. The SSD is a samsung evo 870 1tb. Overall, a great upgrade! Thank you!
@HNIC07 No. Not even in the series s or x were you ban from online... they just released a fix so you will not be able to use the custem ssd expansion card. The ban seems ridiculous and too far for a last gen console. The warranty will be voided... but again... I would be amazed to find one still under warranty.
Followed everything in the vid. I found out that if you're in the Insider program that it won't work. So I removed the console from it, reinstalled the original HDD, booted it up, made sure it was removed. Then reinstalled the SSD and tried applying the offline update with a USB but it stops after 1% and I hear the power on sound. Have any ideas?
Hello! I cant clone my Xbox hdd using disk genius or similar app to new ssd , and then put it in Xbox ? So maybe i dont lose anything alredy on hdd was.
I’m not too saavy, so maybe a dumb question coming. I bought a new SSD to do this, now how do I format it to NTFS from my MacBook? Do I need another cable just for this?
7:40 ‘It was actually pretty cheap, so I got a pretty good deal.’ You won’t know that until you find it works properly and that it continues to do so for a decent amount of time. That’s the risk you take buying a used drive.
Is the boot animation working as before when you power on the XBox after hard drive replacement? One website says you should manually copy some boot animation files to the hard drive before finishing the installation.
I followed the tutorial and while boot up, playing, ect is quite a bit faster, at boot up I no longer see the green startup screen, it does boot up in a quarter of the time now, so maybe it doesn't need to show that screen anymore?
does replacing the hard drive and reinstalling the OS fix the start up error where you boot into the trouble shooting screen? i'm trying to fix my one s that has an issue like this but i'm not sure if this will work
James what type of ssd is needed for the Xbox to recognize it the connection type And what's the fastest speed it will accept can I go all out and slap the fastest 4tb I can find in it?
hay i know this is unrelated to your video but i got a ps vita off ebay recently and i've been trying to follow the tutorials for playing vpk files on the vita but when i got this vita it was already 3.74 and i can't seem to get it to work properly
Hey bud. I get to the point of updating with a USB device screen and when I choose it, it wont work. Is there something I missed? Im pretty sure I didnt. o you have any idea? Cheers in advance.
Thst is where I went wrong. Another tutorial said I could just throw me ssd in xbox and put osu1 on usb and it works. Mine didn't work. But o didn't connect ssd to computer first and c create volume
i love how james has a kind of secret talent that almost no one knows people think his only doing roblox videos keep up the good work
i knew the voice sounded familiar lmao
knew it
This channel existed for way longer than the roblox one though
@@TheHardcoreGamer1 yeah ik lol
Bro i watched him for the first time i said that sound is like so fimilar
Great vid! My son got a new Xbox Series X and we decided to give new life to the old one, a One S, by swapping out the hard drive in favor of a 2TB SSD. Your instructions are spot on and made disassembly easy. The only difference is that our One S did not have the three extra screws holding the cover on. I believe this may be due to you having what appears to be the Xbox One S digital only edition (no Blu-ray drive). Our One S has the Blu-ray drive in that large open space between the fan and hard drive; on yours you can see directly onto the motherboard. Once put back together I downloaded the OSU1 file, deployed it to a flash drive, inserted it into the Xbox, booted up, and it ran through setup like a champ. Up and running in less than an hour. Thank you James!
Thank u for ur experience, I’ve the same one s with blu-ray and I’ve to do this upgrade asap cause now it’s a snail
I installed a SSD in my OG XB1 and it’s great and super easy. The UI is smoother and load time are slightly better. SATA 2 is a bummer but there is a noticeable difference. It’s quieter and cooler now.
Welcome back James! Your voice has matured. You helped me so much back in the day. Really miss your tutorials
It is great to see you back my man! - for a tip, I upgraded to SSD as well but was part of developer/ insider program!! So you have to do a few steps first or it won't work- in this case you have to go to the insider hub and unregister your console from the program, after you do this it should prompt a restart and update- if it does not then you will have to manually restart and then it should update --- after that you are able to follow this tutorial and swap regularly ( and Yes you can re register your console to the program after you swap)
Ayyyeeee been a subscriber since 2017 when he used to softmod the psp's systems and vita's. Good to see ya bro
Welcome back James!! Missed your videos!
he a 2nd acc
It worked for me. I installed a 2TB SSD and it is running perfectly. Thank you for your help!
Any particular 2TB SSD? I'm looking to upgrade my Xbox One S with the same amount.. Thanks in advance
I picked up a Crucial BX500 2TB.
@@LifeBytes406did you have to format it?
@@apolloorosco6852 You always have to format them
Thank you for saving my time by upgrading my Xbox with SSD. It worked perfectly after the upgrade.
Glad to see a new Tech James video! 😃
Glad to see you again. Thank you for this video!
Good to see you back !...
It's good seeing James still out here killin shit
Wow remember this guy's Vita vids? Legend.
Bro respawned finally
Wow, great to see you're back!
The three screws in the front is because you have a digital edition xbox one s without the disk drive it is to secure it down where the disk drive would have been.
INSANE he's back. And help with a console I have! Thanks!
You’re back!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Good stuff! I just swapped to a 2TB SSD I had laying around. Definitely seeing a night and day difference in speed.
Good to see you back dude.
It's been a while bro! Welcome back! 😁
He has returned
Welcome back, James!😃
You're ALIVE!!!
After doing this upgrade, you had no issues with using the machine? Microsoft doesn't see that you have upgraded the internals and lock the system remotely or something silly, correct?
Wow!! James is back!!! Was wondering when you would be uploading again.
welcome back Tech James
nice to see you back james :)
que bom ter você de volta s2
Bro tech James back bro I am happy
I just installed and ssd into my old xbox one s. It was the best decision i have ever made! The UI is smoother and the loading time of everything drastically decreased. I don't know, but some games work better... or is just my imagination. The SSD is a samsung evo 870 1tb. Overall, a great upgrade! Thank you!
Are you having any issues playing online? No ban from Microsoft? I want to update internally to SSS but don’t want to be banned
@HNIC07 No. Not even in the series s or x were you ban from online... they just released a fix so you will not be able to use the custem ssd expansion card. The ban seems ridiculous and too far for a last gen console. The warranty will be voided... but again... I would be amazed to find one still under warranty.
@@horiaandrei24 thanks!
you wont get banned because xbox litreally encourages you and gives the tools@@HNIC07
welcome back, bro!
Tech James is the goat
The drive works without running special partition script that other tutorials show? Just a simple NFTS format and OSU update?
Yes, if you lookup update without scripts there are alot of new videos now and it works, Ive upgraded personally to an SSD for my one x
@@luisfonseca811what steps did you take?
Babe wake up, tech James uploaded again
Just wanna say, great tutorial! I used a Crucial BX500 1TB SSD and my One X now has some extra life, thanks!
Followed everything in the vid. I found out that if you're in the Insider program that it won't work. So I removed the console from it, reinstalled the original HDD, booted it up, made sure it was removed. Then reinstalled the SSD and tried applying the offline update with a USB but it stops after 1% and I hear the power on sound. Have any ideas?
FINALLY TECH JAMES POSTED
W Finally bro's back on the channel
We are missing you Tech James
Hey, just wanna say thanks for your Wii USB Loader tutorial. Cheers!
if you have to stand it, put the bottom part on, plastic might break off.
HES BACK AGAIN 😤🚧🚧
James is back! W
Return of the king
he has a channel with 1.36 million subs
he has a roblox channel with more than a mil lmao
Nice 2 see U back
Quanto tempo seus vídeos são top parabéns 🇧🇷👍
This helped me immensely! Thank you!
He's back!
Hello! I cant clone my Xbox hdd using disk genius or similar app to new ssd , and then put it in Xbox ? So maybe i dont lose anything alredy on hdd was.
I’m not too saavy, so maybe a dumb question coming. I bought a new SSD to do this, now how do I format it to NTFS from my MacBook? Do I need another cable just for this?
7:40 ‘It was actually pretty cheap, so I got a pretty good deal.’ You won’t know that until you find it works properly and that it continues to do so for a decent amount of time. That’s the risk you take buying a used drive.
I have never had an issue with a factory refurbished purchase
Is the boot animation working as before when you power on the XBox after hard drive replacement? One website says you should manually copy some boot animation files to the hard drive before finishing the installation.
Sony did the hard drive replacement better when it came to the ps3. Simple swap without screwing over the customer.
I followed the tutorial and while boot up, playing, ect is quite a bit faster, at boot up I no longer see the green startup screen, it does boot up in a quarter of the time now, so maybe it doesn't need to show that screen anymore?
No longer needed. I just swapped the drive in an xbox one s for a 2tb, and despite not being formatted at all it works fine now
Great tutorial!, Thank you!
Looking forward to new video🤘🔥
Is the Format SSD drive into NTFS necessary?
LETS GOOO YOUR BACK
Thank you for your detailed explanation.
Thank you so much buddy, you just saved me.
does replacing the hard drive and reinstalling the OS fix the start up error where you boot into the trouble shooting screen? i'm trying to fix my one s that has an issue like this but i'm not sure if this will work
even with a 2TB Solid State Drive is a great option.
Can you install a smaller size SSD compared to original 1tb HDD?
Long time no content 😢 you got a steam deck yet? Can you do some mod vids on it please?
Mine is just a black screen and nothing is showing up on the tv, it did 2 months ago.
If I don’t know how to do that not trying to sound stupid or anything but who can do an upgrade like that ?
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO, IT WORKED OUT.
Long time no see
Where can you download the OS? Xbox support won't let you download it anymore. The page is broken. Has been for a long while.
How come it still doesn't work for me ? it stops after 100% verifying
Is it possible without updating offline but online?
Got an e101 error. Console doesn't work now
I miss you bro
Aww shit Tech back
If i replace 500gb hdd with 1tb ssd will it be shown as 1tb?
it don't work my xbox restart instantly without the upgrade help
we are so back
can't believe i found sharkblox's alt by looking for a way to make parts of roms into 1 game lol
Hopefully you are doing well James
will it not be easier to just clone the hdd to ssd?
You can clone your old Hdd. If the old one is broken like his was, you can not.
for some reason my ps vita will install a game but it wont launch the game into the home screen, it keeps giveing me errors
James what type of ssd is needed for the Xbox to recognize it the connection type
And what's the fastest speed it will accept can I go all out and slap the fastest 4tb I can find in it?
The OG Xbox one has SATA2, so drive speed will be capped at 375 MB/s. One S and X have SATA3 for a cap of 750 MB/s.
hay i know this is unrelated to your video but i got a ps vita off ebay recently and i've been trying to follow the tutorials for playing vpk files on the vita but when i got this vita it was already 3.74 and i can't seem to get it to work properly
How we can add the green screen when we turn it on bc it doesn't show the starting screen. Do I have to download it?
you are the man thanks
only 6 videos in the last 3 years, what happened ? please answer us, we love you and care
i knew you were sharkblocks
Hey bud. I get to the point of updating with a USB device screen and when I choose it, it wont work. Is there something I missed? Im pretty sure I didnt. o you have any idea? Cheers in advance.
Same i do the update and i get a error did u find the problem?
Thst is where I went wrong. Another tutorial said I could just throw me ssd in xbox and put osu1 on usb and it works. Mine didn't work. But o didn't connect ssd to computer first and c create volume
Yay your back😊
thanks for this
How do I put videos on a psp
I tried every converter and every video but it either says corrupted data
Or unsupported data pls help someone
for the xbox one S does it use SATA 3 or SATA 2?
Sata 3
support ssd 1.92 tb ??, god job!
saved my ass, thnak you
Hey man how are u ! Please make ps vita videos again 😭
Dude you could casually game review in ur channel and wed watch them😊