Xbox One Internal Hard Drive Direct Copy Upgrade Using Windows Series 7 

Great video. This was stupid easy with the scripts and guidance in the video. Now my Xbox One S is sporting 1TB of SSD goodness. Thanks for the walkthrough!

All these years later, I find myself using this very tutorial in 2021! Still fantastic work you've done on the channel!

This video is so underrated. Wow. Thank you!

Thank you so much, used the instructions to replace the start-to-fail internal 1TB with a new one, and copied all of the old data and games, worked like magic, thanks a million

Thanks for this! Great video, excellent description of everything that was going on. I struggled with the particular USB adapters I have for some reason (both wouldn't show up in the Disk Manager at the same time, on two different computers,) and ended up having to connect the target drive straight to the SATA bus on my desktop. Once the drives populated the Disk Manager, your script worked great. Original Xbox One 500GB to 2TB hybrid drive.

Excellent video! Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to make it! As a creator myself, I know EXACTLY how much work/time is involved so I REALLY appreciate your effort. Going to upgrade my One S from 500GB to 1TB SSD.

Awesome Video! I have an Xbox One X and I used this video to upgrade the drive to a Crucial MX500 1TB SSD. I followed this video to the "T" and selected the Standard 1TB upgrade option when prompted in PowerShell. Oh, be sure to run Windows PowerShell as an Administrator (as mentioned in the video). When I was done it booted up with no errors. Games launch and run much faster especially Destiny 2 & Call of Duty WWII. Thanks XFIX for taking the time to make this awesome video!

Every question, and I MEAN EVERY quesiton I had regarding this process was covered in this video. Fantastic work.

You are a legend mate, thank you for this. This video also taught me about powershell:)

I had the copy process hang up on me, but figured out it was because of how I was plugged into my USB ports... Changed ports and worked just fine! Thanks for the video!

Thank you for this tutorial! It still works perfectly in late-2022. The 500gb HDD on my original XB1 started to chatter, so I knew I didn't have much time before it went out. I did the direct copy onto a 2tb SSD drive and it booted right up with zero issues. The only problem that I had was that it kept getting an error when trying to copy games from the source drive onto the new one. I just popped the old drive back into my XB1, transferred all the games onto an external, deleted them from the HDD, and ran the scripts again - no errors this time. I then copied the games from the external onto the new SSD and all the games work great. Thanks again for taking the time to put this all together!

Awesome guide! I bought a SSD on Black Friday and I finally installed. Everything was pretty straightforward, my old HD was almost full so copying the whole thing took the longest. TY

Just attempted this, went from the original 500GB HDD to a 1.6TB SSD on a "One S" and worked like a charm! Thanks so much for this, I agree with another poster that this video is way underrated!

Thank you very much XFiX for all of your attention to detail, patience, and expertise. I have followed your process and am awaiting drive copy now. I look forward to replacing the aging HDD with an SSD!

Thanks, buddy. I really wanted to upgrade but thought i needed to be a super tech to do so. After following your directions I upgraded to a 2 terrabyte from a 500 gig.

Awesome guide! I bought a SSD on Xmas and I finally installed.

Came here after cloning the internal drive failed to work out. This process worked like a charm. Thank you so much!

This video and your script made this process a breeze - new 2TB SSD up and running in my original Xbox One console. Thank you very much!

Thank you so much dude! it worked only person to really show clearly how to do it! I'm not software savy lol I work in IT but the hardware side. all I can say to anyone is if you're doing this have this video on say your laptop like I did while you're doing it and go through it with him. pause and resume when need to be. thank you so much.

Thank you for this mate, it is pretty incredible. I just upgraded my XBoX One S from 1TB to a 2TB SSD and everything went perfectly. Just follow the steps in this video. I'd recommend reading the provided text file as well; it has useful information regarding popup windows when the new drives are created (just hit cancel)

Huge thanks for you're script and video ... I just installed a Silicon Power 512gb SSD (£47 at the moment) in my son's Xbox one s ... And changed the thermal interface material for Arctic MX4 ...the Xbox is much faster and much quieter ...all thanks to you're prior work ....many thanks from a happy dad in the UK

Done this to squeeze the last bit of juice out of my One S as the reality of getting a Series X sets in. Super easy to do and worked first time. Great video.

Many thanks for this video guide. I successfully repasted my CPU & upgraded to a 2TB hard drive using your software tool. It went smooth as butter. The copying took the longest, around 8 hours. Probably because one of my hard disk caddies was USB 2.0. Once I switched the XBox One X back on, it worked perfectly. All data, settings, games were still there as before + the extra disk space :)

Great video, even several years on and despite things being slightly different in the current version. Worked like a charm.

Amazing tutorial. I can't speak highly enough of this video. I did this process yesterday and it worked like a charm apart from one small hiccup which was very easy to fix. At 26:15, instead of having the file paths H, I, J, K, L, for some reason mine was H, I, J, K, X. I simply changed the X file path letter in disk management to L then ran the "Fix GUID values" command again and it worked beautifully. Once again thank you for this great tutorial

it's just the best script you can find around for this purpose and also the best video, I've used it several times and always went perfectly. Thanks brother

Excelent video! Thanks for the instructions! It helped me so much! People like you make the world a better place!

I've upgraded my sisters and my xbox using your method and both times worked. Thanks for the great tutorial bud! :D

Thank you so much! I tried different tools that require like a million dollar to buy. But this helped me with what I wanted. Thanks again!!

Thanks very much for this excellent video! Year 2020 Dec with the latest update of XBox One installed before the clone, your script works perfectly! A small reminder: the first time I run it, I have a USB card reader attached and it somehow broke the drive letters assignment, so one out of the five partitions wasn't copied. In my case, removing that USD device enabled all the 10 drive letters to be mapped in a sequence. The second run of the script nailed it :>

i was getting the e101 e106 with the other vids in 02/02/2021 but making a copy of the original hardrive and formatting it over to a new ssd totally did the trick. especially because i was a member of insider program

Thanks a bunch. This helped me upgraded from 500GB HDD to 1TB SSD on my One S today. The only difference at the end after putting the new SSD into Xbox, I had to went thru verification process like I just bought a brand new unit even though all local installed games were still there.

Amazing tutorial. One thing I found was my antivirus was blocking some of the helper apps to run. If you have trouble, turn it off. Very pleased with the result. 5 Stars

Commenting as of May 31st 2020! I followed this tutorial to the exact letter and instruction. Every step. Precisely. No mistakes. It's been TWO WEEKS since I did this and I'm commenting now to give my sincere thanks and gratitude to this amazing dude. AND IT WORKED! I swapped my 1TB HDD to a SanDisk 1TB SSD internally. The copying took an hour (It was copying COD Modern Warfare so go figure haha). Console booted up NO ISSUES. There was zero difference, it worked PERFECTLY. The console is now very speedy and the performance upgrade in noticeable. Just from booting up Warzone I could tell the difference. Just make sure you leave the XBOX PREVIEW PROGRAM, just in case! Aside from that, this tutorial and the script (Which was so bloody satisfying to use by the way and BEAUTIFULLY designed!) are perfect as long as you follow this guys instructions EXACTLY. Thanks dude! Can't wait to see what you tinker with when the Series X gets released! Thanks again!!

Thanks for this - I ran into an issue with Drive letters being occupied by other disks so had to eject or rename them prior. Also note that no matter how I tried to get this going on a Surface Pro 3, it didn't work so I used a mac running bootcamp instead :) Thanks very much for the detailed instructions.

This sir, is fantastic. Works like a charm. That 2TB limit is still stunningly dumb.

Ok, I´ve just tried to upgrade the internal HDD to an SSD on my Xbox One X, and this video saved me from throwing the damn thing through the window!!! I tried with the USB drive and OSU1 system update folder and the rest, never worked, stumbled upon this video and it has worked perfectly and now my XOX is fine, it booted first time without errors, nice. Thanks a million dude :)

Thank you very much for this video. Upgraded for $79.99 to a 2TB Firecuda. Perfection!!

Great video. It worked like a charm when copying my XBox One X drive to a 1TB 860 EVO SSD.

Almost 2023 and this video worked perfectly and was very informative. 10/10

Thank you so much! It worked like a charm and my 1X is flying with this new SSD

Thanks for this, was able to use an old 250GB SSD in my Xbox One X as the new internal drive with no issues.

Using the script 9.0 in June 2020. I upgraded my XBOX One from the original 500gb to an 2tb firecuda sshd. Just follow this tutorial EXACTLY and you will be fine. I actually came across something strange during the process I wanted te note. After the last step where you fix the GUID values, the script showed that de D (duplicate) had not yet been removed from the "Temp Content" partition. It still was showing "DTemp Content" while the rest of the partition seem to be correct(User content, System Support etc.) I ran the script again and repeated the fix GUID values step. After this second time everything seems to be correct. Turnt on the xbox and everything seems fine. So no big deal, just keep an eye on this. Massive thank you sir XFiX!! You did an outstanding job!

Duuuuude you just saved my life!Thanks a mil for this

My computer decided to be a pain in the backside with this process by using different drive lettering when I formatted the new drive, and I had to actually format each drive partition manually, give it the proper name and proper letter, but fortunately I was able to see on the drive manager what was going on, and put it right manually. After all that was sorted, just copied the stuff over and did the final steps, and now I have a lovely big 2TB internal hard drive in my original 500gb XBOne S, and the console is working like it always has, but showing that larger drive as if it were always in there. I took advantage of taking the console apart to change the thermal paste, which was more like cement on the console, so now it has some lovely Arctic MX-4!! Thanks for the fantastic video, it made everything very easy to do, even to see what was going on in my particular case, knowing what it should be at each step and allowing me to take the extra steps to make it so. Will you be making a video about internal XBox 360 drives?

Worked perfectly on my Xbox One Fat . Upgraded from 500Go to 2To. Did all with Cmd on windows 10. (April 20th, 2021) . And thank you for the clean eject disk tip :)

By the way, you can just right click the start menu symbol / "the Windows symbol" and select Disk Manager.

Perfect thanks! Only thing i ran into is one of my ssd’s on my desktop was already named x drive so i just had to put that drive offline while i ran the script and it worked pefect! I went from a 1tb hdd to a 500gb ssd

Worked great for me, thanks for the helpful vid!

Thank you for the scripts and the tutorial. I was able to successfully upgrade my Xbox One S from a 500g to a 1TB SSD. This was one of the easiest upgrades I've done in recent memory, and it is due almost entirely to the careful thought and detail put into making these scripts bulletproof. I would sincerely like to buy you a beer. Thank you @XFiX.

After dozens of attempts this worked for me so far, swapped my HD for A SSD and so far so good.

11/4/2021. This still works. Very detailed video. 👌

I cloned my HDD to SSD using Sabrent's standalone disc cloning device. Only cost $32 on Amazon. Worked perfectly and didn't even need to plug anything into a computer. Put my Xbox together with the SSD and immediately noticed a big difference in load speed and gameplay. Altogether, taking apart and putting back together the Xbox One X took about 10 minutes. Cloning the 1TB HDD to SSD took about 3 hours. During that time, I went and did other things to make money.

great tutorial ! upgraded my 500gb to 1tb! thanks!

video perfectly explained ... mount an Crucial MX500 1TB SSD on my Xbox One X, start quickly, the difference is very abysmal ... Thank you very much for the video

while i know this video is old, i can't tell you how helpful this was. I have an old xbox one, gen 1, and i've tried all the offline updates, usb tricks there is and nothing worked. i finally thought to myself, what if i try to do a direct disk copy from hdd to ssd? Well this video was my answer, savior i should actually say. Thank you sir, well done, and much appreciated. Now i can dome out of the basement and play xbox with my kids again, after, luckily, one day of family hell without the xbox...

dude thank you for the tutorial made working with things I never use personally a breeze.

Great Video!!!!!! Thank you so much, worked great!!

I did get this to work with the copy process. Finally.

💚Thank's so much for this script! Worked fine for my case - Xbox One X, replace 1Tb HDD > Samsung EVO 250Gb SSD (using SATA to PC; select partition layout (d)). *Step with fix GUID used twice - volume labels not corrected the first time.

Hi! Thanks for a great video! Any limitations when using Windows 10 instead to do this?

Dude I wanted to say thank you so much. I upgraded to a 500gb SSD. I only have like 3 games on it and the OS. Which is all I wanted. OMG the boot time is insane. I played Dead by Daylight and the fact that textures load quicker the frames are so smooth now. If anyone is going to do this you might as well go ahead and change the thermal paste as well. Why not? My system runs cooler and way faster then before. Thanks mate.

Using the "version 9" script here in April 2020. I encountered a 'gotcha', which is covered in some other videos like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tUisAJjfGz0.html -- where you have to A) manually replace the contents of the 'System Update' partition, and B) create the OSU1 system-update USB stick. Essentially I had to let the XBox do an offline-system-update in order for it to fully recognize the replaced hard drive (despite the fact that the partitions and GUIDs were correctly set by the command-scripts, thank you 100x for that sir XFiX!). So again, even though these instructions are amazing, there's the extra steps of manually replacing the System Update partition files & making the OSU1 "system update" USB stick, and then booting up the XBox in what some call "maintenance mode" to force it thru a system-update. At least for me. Hope it helps future viewers & hackers. GLHF! And thank you again XFiX for an amazing tool, you rock.

Extremely helpful! Worked perfectly w/ Script version 9 on 2020/03/30

I upgraded from a 500GB HDD to a 1000GB SSD following all steps. Once installing into my XBox One and booting up, I received the System error E208 00000570 00000000. I had to reset to factory settings but was able to pull over all previous settings. Besides that tiny hiccup, this worked great. Thanks for the perfect tutorial!!!

Thank you for creating this. I was frustrated with slow menus and long load times. This script saved me so much time. Really nice job all around. Went to a Crucial 1TB using the non-standard 1TB option. This gave me 830.9 GB of usable space. I suspected I might get more out of the SSD than the standard option but I'm not 100% as to why. Care to educate us, XFiX?

Nice work. 😎

This is my go to video for doing this, thank you dude. I am currently copying one now to an ssd. I would recommend transferring games off of the original drive to make the process go faster because it's been 6 hours. Also is there a way to add a percentage of completion to the script because that would be so nice

Brilliant, worked perfectly. thank you.

THANK YOU - IT WORKED ...you are terrific

Thanks! the step at 25:40 is VERY important (running the script again). It will not work without this final step.

Hello from 2023 still works, did it on my XBOX One S

awesome guide, thanks

Another great video!

Still works in 2022 with script v9. Thanks!

What a great tutorial this was. All did was format the SSD with the xbox partition. Just a quick question. Since doing that. My Xbox One X no longer has a boot up logo. Is this normal?

Can't you just use standard disk cloning software?

Thanks for the Video

Thank you very much for this guide. I repaired my broken Xbox One with it. Please accept this virtual beer (b)!

as someone who writs things like this for a living... great job! just one question, why not do the eject source drive in the script? that way you don't need to run the script again and just rename the partitions

It worked great for me, had a weird thing with resolution happen when I first tested it and it spooked me, but everything is working great. I did have a question though, would resetting the xbox make the copy go bad?

Thank you for this guide and information. Question(s) I do have is that my original HDD was giving disk errors and I had to run the script twice. In the second run it said it fixed the drives. What would cause certain drives to have errors and how did it fix them? I was not wanting to let Windows fix them when the bubble popped up with the message so I guess this way was safe.

Thank you for the great well organized video, really liked 'source' & 'target' labels on the disks ;) Does this script need some changes in order to make it work for Xbox 360?

My Xbox is having an error updating offline with the USB zip file ntfs. I called mycrosoft support and they said it's a hard drive error and I asked them what should I do, they said to replace the hard drive 😑

Must say, this worked for me perfectly, even all these years later. I was trying to use the newer "simply" version with the Offline Update. But my console is in preview mode so the OSU files online didn't work. The HDD was still working but starting to grind.

Thanks for sharing

FYI, I used the "(f) Autosize Non-Standard w/ 2TB Disk GUID" option when copying data from a 500GB HDD directly to a 2TB HDD and was able to reclaim the 101.02GB of unallocated space that would have been left at the end of the drive if I had used the "(c) 2TB Standard" option.

This worked! I installed a samsung qvo 860 1 tb and my console is faster. Bo4 loads fast too!

Thank you a billion times

Hi! Thank you for your videos. I didn´t know where to ask. Do you know if there´s a way to partition a HDD (external) for using it with both Xbox and PC? (Ex: 3 TB for Xbox and 1TB for FAT/NTFS partition). Thank you!

Awesome, just upgraded from 500GB to 1TB

Strangely my System update partition on the target drive does seem to appear at all in dsk management but appears in This PC when I look at the drives and then the copy process fails at the last step telling me system update is missing... Any clues as to where I might be going wrong? EDIT: I did manage to get the box to start after manually copying the udpate files to A/B folders to the drive and bootanim but I had to back out of the error in the pwrshell and start the bat again to edit the drive letters/partitions however while the box was then able to boot none of my existing games launched and my profile was no longer on the xbox so I would still like to see what the solution is.

I use Macrium reflect to clone my main Windows 10 PC SSD over to an identical SSD once a week so I have a bootable backup of my windows 10 desktop. Can't Macrium Reflect clone the stock Xbox one X hard drive over to a new SSD?

Can We just clone hard drive using for example Acronis ( or other similar software) from 500 GB stock to 4 TBHDD/SSD?

👏😃 exelente video

great tutorial. I have a question, recently I changed the 1tb hd from the xbox one x to a 500gb ssd hd. after that i received an update and i get the error E102. The question is, in this case I can’t make updates anymore? because why the size is different from the original that comes in X?

So what I understand about the partition layout is: when I have a new 2TB Samsung SSD I should choose "c" (1663GB) instead of the autosize option "f" (1947 GB). With "f" I will have more space until I reset the Xbox one to it's factory settings. Then the Xbox one operating system will reset the space from 1947GB to 1663GB. Because 1663GB is the "standard" size for a 2TB drive. Is this correct?

Thank you!

Is it possible to inject Xbox Original UDATA saves into the Xbox One internal HDD file system like you were able to on the 360?

Question? I did this using an xbox that somehow is enrolled to the Xbox Insider Program, none of the accounts on the xbox have insider enabled or anything, but somehow the Xbox SO version corresponds to an insider version, but If it try to install a "fresh" drive the OSU file update process fails as the current version of the xbox is newer than the OSU version (public one), and the original Xbox driver died (tried this guide but the original drive keeps failing or just completely stops working). Anyway, is there a way to get the OSU for insider version of the xbox or revert back the Xbox to a non insider version (public one) so I can use the public OSU file to update so I can install a fresh drive?