How to Upgrade/Replace Your Xbox One HDD! - SSD/HDD Upgrade Guide for X1, One S, One X

Need more internal storage on your Xbox One? Internal drive failure keeping the console from booting up? Or maybe you just want to install a SSD in there for fun? Regardless the reason, this guide will show you how to take a 2.5" SATA drive and set it up for your Xbox One, Xbox One S, or Xbox One X internally! This exact tutorial will be using the Xbox One X as a demonstration, however the original Xbox One and the Xbox One S have the same software steps as shown here. This will also only walk through setup and initialization like a brand new console, so retaining any data from an old drive will be up to you if you choose to adapt this tutorial to your situation.

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This video has been made with Fair Use in mind and has been created as an educational piece of media.

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Timestamps!

0:00 - Intro
1:28 - Prerequisites
4:15 - PC Setup
7:36 - Replacement Drive Setup
9:16 - Running the HDD Script
13:59 - OSU1 USB Drive Setup
16:13 - Xbox One X Teardown & Tips
22:14 - OSU1 Update Installation
25:44 - Boot Animation Restore (Optional)

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Hardware & Tools Used in This Video (Affiliate Links):

Xbox One X Console:

Western Digital 1TB SSD:

USB Flash Drive:

WEme USB 3.0 to SATA/IDE Adapter:

iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit:

Audio & Video Hardware I Use:

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Downloads & Links!

Xbox One HDD Script:

Online MD5 Checker:

OSU1 Update:

Xbox One X - Teardown, Repaste, & Reassembly Guide:

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[Tay]

Holyshit an articulate YouTuber who takes his time and doesn't throw all his words together and doesn't trip over his words and have to retract statements I am in shock and I will continue to watch this video to the end for I feel there has to be pertinent and useful information here cuz this guy is no dummy, you got yourself another subscriber !

[Metaphor]

Everytime I want to modify anything gaming related, I search your channel first. Only your tutorials work for me. Well, maybe I shouldn't say that, I'll say yours make it easy and the most sense to me. Especially since at every turn you also say what we'll see if something goes wrong. Every other tutorial just assumed every goes according to plan. Thank you for all your hard work

[alaeddine_bt]

2023 and it still works big thanks to you bro you really help me a lot ❤

[Knaeckebrotsaege]

Wow this is outdated. You don't need to hook any of the drives up to the PC anymore, let alone mess with weird scripts. Throw the new/larger HDD/SSD into the console (no prep needed), go to the recovery menu (as outlined at 23:30) with the OSU1 USB stick inserted and pick the offline system update menu item. It'll start doing its thing. Done. The only thing this *doesn't* do is restore the boot logo, but that'll fix itself the next time there's a software update anyway and doesn't affect usability

[alecpratt]

Man I can't even begin to explain how much your videos have been helping me these past few weeks. Thank you

[jessragan]

Whoo, that is quite an undertaking. Not impossible, but rather involved...
I will say, MM, that your past tutorials on the very first Xbox have been immensely helpful. I've got a 500GB drive in my Xbox, nicked from an iMac, and although boot times have increased, the extra storage is worth the wait. Pretty much anything I want on the drive will fit. Thanks much for that!

[seekersees]

I was fighting with an Xbox black screen for a friend. I couldn't get it to boot into troubleshoot menu to reload it. I knew it wasn't bricked since it got to the green screen and went black plus the controller allowed me to power down, restart, etc. It had to be corruption since it happened after that MS update that killed a lot of Xbox units. He wasn't worried about the data since it's all on the cloud. I said I'll replace the HDD with an SSD after coming across you method for replacing/upgrading the disk. I worked without any issues and was able to apply the update and it's good to go. I spent way less time on this than trying to get into the troubleshooting menu. He's finally got his Xbox back after it being hosed for 6 months. I appreciate the information and tips. Easy to follow and not difficult at all.

[Coorhagen]

Today I went to my brother's place. And I took my laptop.
I watched your video and i had all the stuffs prepared.

He's Xbox one s hhd was failing.. sometimes the console would freeze while playing a game. Because the HDD would stop.

I bought him a western digital SSD 1to.
And followed your video very strictly.

Now he has 1to SSD
Instead of 500 go HDD.

Thank you so much ❤
You helped me to help my brother.

And it made me happy to see him relieved when he saw his console working fine again.

I'm from France =] just so you know you help people from everywhere 😁

Thanks again

[twidisiscool]

Great video got my Xbox one s back up and running now

[YouOBVIOUSLYarentSmartEnough]

Thanks for explaining everything where anyone with or without computer knowledge can understand. This is how's it done and many YouTubers regardless of their content could learn from this

[SparkyMarkzR]

This worked perfectly thank you!! My HDD failed and wouldn't install anything/crashed the computer all sorts. Followed this step by step and all good!

[piratesmvp]

This is amazing how easy the upgrade is! Much better than the original Xbox that locked the hard drive to the motherboard unless you softmodded it first.

[mysticaxolotl]

PSA: For anyone who is being told that the script can't find the update partition, try mounting the drive under Linux, and then copying the update files from there. Worked for me!

[Tata-kxli]

My Xbox has an issue with the last update. I upgraded my HHD for the SSD as you recommended + following your steps, I was able to reinstall everything and continue playing using my old Xbox. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE EASY EXPLANATION 🙂

[vladnicolescu]

you can actually move the unallocated partition at the end of the partition table to the right of the largest one and extend it to it, that's what i did to mine, but i want to mention that I first clonezilla-ed my original hdd (500gb) to the ssd

[Thatguy]

Just be careful removing the ribbon that connects the front USB and sync button from the board. When I did mine, it ripped the connector off the motherboard. Luckily the damage wasn't too bad, and a repair shop could was able to fix it. But if you're not careful, those traces may be irreparable.

[mariodiy]

For those getting an error code loading the OSU1, make sure you download the proper version for your Xbox One console. There's a separate version for Xbox One X/One S and Xbox One consoles. I accidentally tried to load the Xbox One S OSU1 onto an Xbox One and ran into a E106xxxx error and Update from USB was not an option in the trouble shooter. Also try a different USB drive. Some drives have issues loading the OSU1 onto the console.

Halo 5 Xbox One
Previous Drive: Seagate ST1000LM024 1TB HDD
New Drive: Crucial MX500 1TB SSD
Console OS before Upgrade: 10.0.22621.4480

Also make sure to exit the Xbox Insider program if you have a preview release of the OS. The public OSU1 will not work. You'll have to wait until the new public release of the OSU1 supercedes the Insider preview version. That can take months. You cannot revert to an older OS build doing the offline update by USB using the lastest OSU1 update in this situation. It would suck if your HDD crashed with a preview build.

[kevinpardue]

Hard drive went bad in my sons Xbox One X and I needed to do something about it. I got a new SSD and used this tutorial and got it back up running, thanks!

[topsekilkram]

Up and running in my upgraded SSD. Thank you!

[ThomasRhin]

Thank you for such a detailed tutorial. I upgraded my Xbox one X with Samsung 870 EVO 1TB 2 years ago, then did another upgrade to 2 TB last year. What i can say is every dollar is worth of it ! The price of SSD has been going down to a quite resonable range and people with old consoles should consider the internal upgrade first if he or she has the ability to dissamble the console. However, what modders concern is the maximum capacity or limitation of the Xbox One consoles. I have viewed several videos made by XFiX(aka author of Xbox HDD master script). He said the limitation of user content partition is around 1.8TB or so. In other words the max standard capacity of SSD would be 2TB. Though we can partition the SSD of greater capacity and get beyond the limitation with Xbox HDD master script tool, we cannot use it because once trying, it causes partition corruption and data lost. I just bought another new 4TB 870 EVO last week and this information interrupted my plan because I was just aware of it yesterday.