This video's pretty late in the Xbox One's product life-cycle, but yea, it's been a dry week for videos so whatever ;) Anyway, here's how to replace an Xbone S Hard Drive.
Please note: Prices and availability of SSDs change. I suggested a Samsung QVO in this video, but right now the Crucial MX500 is a much better buy, as it's virtually the same cost as the BX or QVO, but a much better drive. Take my discussion of SSDs in this video more as advice on the type and form factor of drive to look for, rather than a specific model.
You would think the fools that makes the consoles would install a dam SSD from day one since they are nothing new, i hate the way these people think and work, thank god ps5 is so perfect
here in canada the Xbox series s ... is 599.99 new befor taxes so approximately 725$ after taxes !!!! and well theirs the issue with all consoles and thats thermal throttling and you only get 120FPS tops ......i could get a budget too mid range computer that gets better FPS .. funny the Xbox series X and S are relatively new too the markey and your already replacing a hard drive !!!! so i would question the quality of all its parts .... cheap PSU , cheap Harddrive , cheap integrated graphic's , Cheap underbined cpu from AMD 3.6GHZ on paper seems good but longivity i do not think is good at all .. better off getting a 3-4 year old gaming PC with quality parts around the same price !!!
wait why didnt you just plug the New SSD into you PC with the old xbox hard drive and open each drive window then select and drop all of the contents of the old hard drive into the new SSD so all his games and setting everything is on the new SSD its as easy as that and will copy it all even if its corrupt it will repair it ... but litterally this shows the quality aspect of the xbox series s and x it was released November 2020 !!!! its not even a year old ... i have a youtube /HTC movie PC with original hard drive thats from 2012 still running good today and i gave it a rough life lol with a Core 2 quad,8gb ram and gtx 960 LMAO its out of date but runing windows 10 and i use it for netflix and youtube in my bedroom and still runs fast and fine LMAO used a leaf blower on the deck too clear the dust out of it just this week LO
It's not fair at all. He should be charging the full labor/diagnostic rate regardless if the guy wants to change it or not. That ain't his problem he did his job.
Another informative video that was very interesting to watch. What i find amazing in each of your videos is that you seem to know exactly how to open up the device without damaging the clips or retainers, or which screws to remove and which not to. Cheers man keep the videos coming.
There's a knack to prying enclosures open which is really really hard to explain, but incredibly valuable to learn. I might make a video about it, as it's something that I see students struggle with often.
Thank you very much sir for this tutorial. I have a slight advantage because of my technical experience but I have never repaired a gaming console before. I followed step by step and now my kids think I'm a hero lol! I upgraded to the Samsung 860 Evo 500GB and so far so good! Thanks again!
This man is my spirit animal, I've never seen someone teach the same way I do with my sense of humor, amazing stuff! I'm using this as a reference guide to upgrade my little brothers Xbox One S, easily the best video I've seen on the subject!
I am wishing more people would repair and reuse their stuff instead of throwing away . We moan about pollution but thats what we get each time we are making more of things like this
Well said Rusty, I work at Staples and its absolutely disgusting the things people will recycle that can be repurposed and repaired. 4-5 weeks ago a guy dropped of a GAMING PC with a 980 ti and an i7-8700k in it. I begged the company to let me have it, but no, it has been taken away to a recycling plant of which they declined to share with me where it was going. We live in a society that is full of greed and pollution and it's just sad. Electronics Recycling adds to the pollution problem, once they get sent to the plant and get melted down, it just puts toxins in the air.
Harddisk is hardly ever the problem. However you are right. There's a vid floating around with a guy who bought 15 broken ps4's, where like 11 were perfectly fine.
@@Xfade81 Unfortunately, it's more common than you think, just because you haven't experienced it or have experienced it less than other issues with Xbox Ones, it does happen quite often.
I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this tutorial! At first I remember when I swapped the original Xbox one hard drive out with the regular hard drive and it took forever damn near to open it up. This one does seem to be similar, but it's very much easier and not to mention with me being an IT I'm waaaaaay smarter on how to open up electronics than I did back then. Definitely was wondering how we get the operating system on it after swapping it out with the SSD and glad that Microsoft actually has a method for this for off-line system update. Once again appreciate your time and thorough description on how to do this and I will be doing this within the next couple of days.
Wow they've made this a lot easier than it first was with the original one haha. I remember having to learn some Linux to get this done and having to use very specific drives so am very glad to here it's changed so much. Thanks for the video it's helped answer a ton of questions so I can help repair an xbox for a friend who was able to pick up a broken one that was destined for the bin. Awesome stuff!
I brought a second hand xbox 1 and did the thermal paste on it yesterday. Was very satisfying brushing all the dust off of everything. Watched your video just now, very informative keep up the good work dude.
Been putting this off for a while and just suffering each update as my HDD was failing. Finally got around to doing this and your video was a big help!
I finally got around to installing a 870 EVO in my OG XB1 and used your vid to install it. Works perfect and it is much snappier. Even with the SATA 2 interface the difference is noticeable. Great video.
Someone said that load times on a console aren't as quick as a pc's load times so I'd say that it's an unnecessary upgrade in my opinion, unless of course you're in the same scenario
I plan on moving my game installs to an external hard drive then upgrading the internal storage to potentially a 2TB SSD, then just using the internal after moving the games back.
Perfect video. Followed your video step by step basically and repaired my xbox after it was dropped from about 4 feet. Worked until the next time it needed to do an update. Then it died on me. Sat in the cabinet for the last 2 years until i found your video. Thanks for taking the time to record and post.
Around September 2019 my Xbox one x start acting funny. Then around February 2020 it went out. I looked up video after video until one guy said it might be my hard drive. Bought a portable one and it worked...for little while. I gave up and after months of not wanting to throw it away somehow you came across my recommendations. What I’m trying to say is THANKS! You and a couple other guys helped me out soooooooo much!!! I got nothing but love for you guys ✌️
I’ve actually for the first time opened and cleaned my Xbox all on my own because of these types of videos I wish more people would just be open to working on there own stuff
hey dude, if tech classes at school were explained like you explain things you would have alot more kidos passing class n wanting to get into tech, well done and keep up the good work
Man. I just got your video on my feed and I fell very identified with your way to work with tech. Just the way things were meant to be used Greetings from Monterrey, Mexico
Hey bro te funcionó?, quiero cambiarle el disco duro a la mía pero mi consola era de 500gb y no se si le tengo que poner los 500gb que tenia o puedo actualizarla a 1tb
better off selling it and buying yourself a pc my guy, now that halo infinite is gonna be on pc as well theres no reason to keep an xbox, which is honestly disappointing because i grew up with the original xbox
@@lilakila5935 not everyone use a console the same way. I guess my Xbox One X for 4K Blu-ray playback, as well as for playing backwards compatible with Xbox 360 titles and any Xbox originals they have made digital. Makes well for occasional LAN parties with my friends. On top of that, I *also* have a R5 2600/1070ti/64GB gaming rig but they each see their share of usage. Time will tell how my overall setup changes.
@@lilakila5935 I do have a PC also. I like games on both platforms and I have other use cases for each machine also. I also use XBox Game Streaming on my smartphone every now and then to play games that are installed on the XBox, which works quite well even on mobile data. This SSD swap might be useful if I can't upgrade to the Series X this year.
unfortunately it's much better to have storage than speed. personally I wouldn't do anything less than a two terabytes. the Seagate fire cuda 2 TB sshd is a pretty good compromise
I never knew it was that easy to install the system software, I thought we had to prepare the software for the hdd/ssd beforehand on a computer unless that’s for the 360
I think if you go with a drive less than 500GB or more than 2TB (Xbox compatible sizes) then you would have to make some changes not seen here because you need to trick the Xbox into thinking there's a compatible drive there but I wouldn't advise going above 2TB because there can be issues later down the line and less than 500GB is just pointless as there are predefined sizes for each partition so the last time I messed about with a 250GB for an Xbox the actual space for storage turned out to be in the region of 130GB but this was only as a project before I put a 4TB in there
@@DeanD1990 yes i thought there was some script you had to load. Do you have to stick to the size the xbox came with as my nephews came with a 500gb can i use a 1 terabyte with this easy procedure
I think it cocked up during an update so i have tried installing the software via a flash drive and it gets to about 60% and stalls. Im guessing the hard drive is knackered
Good to see that both the PS4 & XB1 can be easily fixed/upgraded with a new HDD or SSD. I believe the 360 required a weird workaround, if you wanted a drive larger than their proprietary addon drives, it requiring copying of specific data from existing drive. So I never bothered trying to upgrade my 360 HDD, whereas I swapped my 80GB PS3 drive for a 320GB HDD. I did end up with a 320GB 360 drive though, as I got the Halo 4 360 in a trade in deal, that was weirdly generous for a GAME deal. Trading a 250GB slim with 1 controller + £100, it got you; the custom clear shell console, 2x custom controllers, 320GB HDD, Halo 4 on disc & fresh warranty.
Stock 360 consoles used whitelisted drives to prevent cheap 3rd party upgrades, but they're still standard 2.5" HDDs in more (phat 360) or less (slim 360) weird enclosures. Fairly easy to circumvent by getting a WD HDD up to 500GB and using "hddhackr 1.40" on your PC to make said WD HDD pretend being one of those whitelisted official drives which the console will then accept. Unfortunately 500GB is the upper limit because no official drive larger than that was ever released that the software could make the new drive pretend to be
Very good tutorial. detailed and easy to follow. I was having a very difficult time with getting past error E102 for multiple reasons but I was able to replace the HDD and now my console runs smooth. Thank you.
I bought a 1tb 860 Evo from Amazon for like £70 a year back just because the packaging was damaged which by that meant the cardboard was a bit bent on the corner . . . Also to add so glad my grandad was a electrician it got me fascinated in the innards of electronics and has saved me so much money over the years xD
This channel is awesome, My HDD has thrown an error in crystal disk so i thought I will watch a bit of Adamant IT and learned about Seatools so I've just tried it and it failed the short DST. So it looks like it is time to start backing up my data. Thanks for the brilliant videos Adamant It
I cannot believe MS made it this Easy! There was actually a point where you needed to get another Program to give you and Encrypt the HDD/SSD you wanted with MS's Partitions for the HDD in order for it to work. Now they made it this easy. Holy shit! Thank you for the Upload!!
@@hatsonchickens First of all who is talking about PlayStation, and who needs to Compare or create this challenge that no one is asking for? With PS4 the User was always welcomed to swap out their internal drive, with Xbox it wasn't allowedd and you needed some Mod created Software tools to create more or less a reverse Jail Break.
Another great video. Performance increase with an SSD really depends on the game being played. Overall an SSD will improve loading time performance on average of 15 - 45 seconds, but bandwidth through the southbridge chip of the Xbox S is limited, so do not expect lighting fast improvements on all games as you would see on a PC for example. The bottle neck is the southbridge, not the SATA header. For reliability it is a no brainier to install an SSD.
Is the south bridge where the sata controller is? A ssd should also kill a hdd in iops as well. Running your os plus games from an ssd should net noticeable gains otherwise you could just use an external ssd.
@@saysbadman The southbridge is a support processor for the APU, basically it handles input and outputs to/from other components on the board (HDMI, WiFI, HDD etc). So even though the SATA and APU can handle higher bandwidth, the southbridge throttles throughput for certain I/Os to allow it to handle the multiple requests without crashing/overheating etc etc
Raw sequential bandwith isn't the problem with HDDs in the 8th console generation. The problem is in HDD's IOPS, seek time and the multiple small files that multiply the seek time. I was thinking for a long time now to change my HDD to SSD on my One S, made the change on my PS3 and PS4 many years ago cause they were extremely easier and didn't involve opening the device completely (i am extremely clumsy and useless when it comes to these delicate actions and i would never wanna damage my devices). Adamant here made it look very casual and made me wanna give it a go now that my primary XB device is a Series X. I have ordered an SSD an i'll try it tomorrow when i have what i need.
you simplified this process for me. I thought my original Xbox One got bricked after an update. I figured it was the HDD, so I ordered a newer faster Seagate. I watched other videos with someone running script to mimic an original Xbox One HDD. It didn't work for me. Plus, I think I needed the newest OSU1 update file. Not sure which was the real problem with why the drive wasn't working. But I formated the HDD back to no partition and no labels, installed it, and then did the OSU1 update process and it worked beautifully. I thought I was going to have to trash it. I use it for the kids since I still have the Kinect games they like to play on it. Thanks for this, you don't know how much you've truly helped me and many others.
With as quickly as hard drives fail, Microsoft probably eventually decided "Fine, whatever, lets just let them replace the hard drives themselves. Sony's doing it, so lets do it too." Hence why Microsoft finally put up that page.
@@kylewilkins4258 sony let their costumers do it but microsoft does not cos they want $$$ When they revealed the xbox price everyone kept quiet at the launch event But ps4 on the other hand got alot of excitement.
Fantastic video, great work... although I'd recommend a Samsung EVO 870 SSD... the hard drive performance will make a big difference in using the console.
this video is pure golden. thank you so much !!!!!!. liked and subbed! i almost threw my xbox one s away, til i watched this video and now it's running like new . im so happy! thank you!
well done that will come in handy as my grandson has been on about updating his xbox to ssd, now i know how to take it to bits without a hammer :-} thanks.
I find it absolutely horrid to actually type on... however, the convenience is absolutely worth it. I've got three of them in the shop, and it's so much better having a combo unit and wireless key on a lanyard compared to messing around with a wired mouse and keyboard on a workbench.
so microsoft just lets you do this now? i thought you had to do some relatively shady stuff by cloning OS info with a third party script. this is bonkers. have you gotten any xbox one x's where you had to change the drive? this is great news!
i thought xbox was like ps where they aloud and supported you replacing the hdd. This looks like they tried to make it impossible to do for the general consumer base.
What the hell. It's that easy now. I guess the PS4 made this possible cause changing the drive in that is so easy. Thank youuuuuuuu so much. So instead of a series x an SSD will do for my one x for a while.
So found your video to be helpful! But through my experience I learned that if a console is part of the "Xbox Preview Program," then none of this, including the OSU1 offline update will work, even with a new hard drive. I thought my Xbox One X had a bad hard drive since a recent update got caught in a fail/restart cycle. Replaced the hard drive with a new one, but same issue continued to happen and offline update would always instantly fail. Decided to test the old hard drive with SeaTools and both short and long generic tests passed on the old HHD. So started looking at other issues. Finally was able to determine that the offline update and/or scripts for a new hard drive will not work for a console on the Xbox Preview Program. To do so, the console must be removed (unenrolled) from the preview program and then offline update or even an online update will work. At least that is what worked for me.
How does one unenroll from the preview program if the drive is dead? If there's no network (dead drive and no operating system), then there's no way for the Xbox to communicate (or vice versa) with MS servers...?
@@cezardob You can unenroll from the preview program when logged in on any Xbox. My brother logged into my account on his Xbox, unenrolled my account and console from the preview program. I thought and all errors indicated the drive was bad, but ended up finding out that wasn't the case. It was the Preview Program update that was bad, my drive was perfectly fine. So I wouldn't really know anything about having to deal with an actual dead drive situation, combined with the Preview Program issue.
@@K-tf9vt ok, so that makes sense. My only concern is how would the "defective" Xbox know that it was no longer enrolled when network services don't work because the unit doesn't boot to the main screen so my assumption is that internet won't work, either. It's definitely worth looking into. Thanks for the reply.
@@cezardob yep, valid question. But if you can easily login on another Xbox and unenroll, may be worth the try. Either way, best of luck in getting it fixed.
For everyone: Quick tip for hdds not ssds. If they stop being recognised, it can sometimes mean dirty contacts or slight discolouring of contacts between the boards and the hdd itself. Where contacts from the drive itself touch the board, use an eraser to go over the discoloured contacts. I had this recently and have had this a couple of times now. Just go over with a soft eraser till they are clean and then you just put it back together and you should be fine. You could use IPA but if you do not have one, and eraser will do so long as it is a soft one and will crumble a bit easier, you do not want too hard in case you damage the contacts. This does mean taking the hdd board off the hdd and cleaning but this does NOT mean the sata power or data contacts. The other contacts between the board and the hdd which is why I say, taking the board off the hdd. This may not be as well known. Provided there is no other issue like clicking and just that it is not being detected, your drive may actually be fine, just clean the contacts on the board to the drive itself which as contacts that are slightly springy, just becareful not to damage anything.
I always recommend if doing hard drive replacements in consoles 2-4 TB is the option as a longevity tool 1TB has been obsolete standards since the introduction of blue ray as a standard in console..
@@shooterboi sadly how many games do you play or have you installed on the system>?? I ask this average games these days can meet or exceed 250 GB on install nby the time you install: game day 1 patch 4k DLC mods updates I run all the games on a 2TB external Though I would love to run a 8TB option in an ssd at 1 point..
Mentioning your costs and pricing was quite surprising. Well done, with a little insight on how to break down an xbox one s. I've I just replaced my 2005 xbox 360 laser and let me tell you; quite a bit to consider, especially when you cant just replace drives without reformatting the motherboards. Great video.
Yea I'm trying to talk more about pricing in order to open up conversation about that. Every now and then some one says I'm a rip-off merchant, but that's often because they haven't considered the costs involved or the fact that yes, I'm in business to make money. So I set my prices, and I try to be transparent about them, and people can make their choice as to where they'd get their stuff fixed. If they've found some kid working from his bedroom who will change their xbox drive for £20 labour, because he doesn't have rent to pay, then good for them, I've got no hard feelings toward that. However, the kid in his bedroom isn't insured, and likely his warranty is worthless. Make your choice.
@@Adamant_IT Transparency will usually give the customer an inherit trust to pay whatever your fee is, within reason- Knowing their money is being used towards an honest service. The external hard drive troubleshooting software was a treat. As well as a look into the console. I was under the impression that xbox one internal harddrives were set in stone perhaps some misinformation some time back. I just purchased an external harddrive last night actually with the information you've provided. I just got an xbox one s for the first time for a steal of a price, and you're correct; 500gb is laughable. Thanks again.
@@jijaram HDD load times always sucked, thats why youre supposed to buy an SSD if you want fast load times. But for price per gigabyte an HDD is unbeatable.
Actually there isn't problem pushing/touching the top. The metal plate is quite thick + there is always big air gap inside. I mean, to do any damage, you have to hit it hard with something.
You're talking to the guy who doesn't take anti-static precautions. I'm not exactly a model of 'best practises'. But I've also watched work-experience kids holding a laptop HDD in a death-grip while they unscrew the rails on it, so you kinda want to make sure they're not clamping into the top.
@@breacher7252 yea but you still want to use one with a dram cache in it. If you go to cheap and get one without a dram. It might effect installing big games. It would be actually an interesting test.
@mister.T Jr no no, Dramcache in an SSD makes it much faster. This is something that alot of cheaper SSD's dont have. very shortly how it works is that it saves some data that may accure later on in the cache so it responds much faster. SSD's without this can be times and times slower than the SSD with it. They can be fine without it for light loads but they (in many cases) even gets slower than a normal HDD
with new Simply method,use new 1tb SSD(or 500gb) ,no partition needed,put the new drive inside unformatted. Plug-in USB pendrive with latest osu1 unzipped in root $SystemUpdate . Power on, system update offline and voilà new powered up One S/X, ultra Easy today. PS: with this method 480/960GB doesnt works. DONT USE CHEAP SSD, or DRAMLESS. best choice price performance for sata 3 860/870EVO/MX500.
was it worth it? Does it make a difference? From what I've seen, not so much. I upgraded my PS4pro to 2TB Firecuda (HDD+8GB SSD) because it was super easy and only 1TB. It makes the system boot faster but otherwise, not really...
@@revelator3665 I wasn't questioning the drive itself, I merely asking whether it was worth upgrading for the hassle rather than just plugging in external drive
@@juraj_b Yes it worth, Best performance Everywhere, LAG in os and in game,os latency,loading game and reloading, response time of the system, worth every penny. But no with cheap SSD. Only 860EVO and MX500. Not less. SShd Is much Much slower than this 2 SSD.
@@revelator3665 it seems that the exetrnal SSD will do just fine as the difference is negligible ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gVsp2vOAziA.html
Just upgraded mine to a Crucial 1TB SSD for $50 from the OEM 500GB HDD so I don't have to rely on an external drive anymore. This video helped me a lot for taking it apart and reassembly, so thank you. Only problem I had was that the OSU refused to run, getting an error code every time. I managed to get it to work by pulling the SSD back out, which the console had formatted and partitioned, and copied all the files from the original HDD over.
After Seeing this video I upgraded my xbox one x. Everything seems to work great however the boot animation is now gone which is apparently a known issue using this method. But that's not a big deal. My console seems much more responsive now....Using and older 1TB 850 Evo from my desktop pc.
@@Major.Ocelot2U I just looked and its 781GB I am not sure I would swap it out in the old vcr looking org xbox one the drive would be worth more than the console but that's your call
@@BradElliot yes all things mechanical that turn or move will wear and probably stop working eventually ... but that SDD's never fail is a myth, and at least you can get the platter out of a failed hdd and access the data ...
@@Ecmslee in reality ssds brick when they die. SSDS might last j ust under 10 years at best, hdds can last longer if treated well and with some good luck
Thanks for showing us how to do this. I thought about doing this, and I might -- when I have more time. This is good way to save my old console and keep it running for the kids. Thanks. Subbing.
Great tutorial vid, thank you! Just did the same with my Xbox following your guide. Only issue I had was not having the appropriate tools which made getting the screws undone difficult, without stripping them in the process. But otherwise the transfer was a success and hoping it makes a difference in my gaming 😊👍
