Installing a blank internal hard drive

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Xbox One

Microsoft's third-generation Xbox game console, released November 22, 2013.

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Harri Huttunen @jalle65

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Installing a blank internal hard drive

Hey guys! The internal hard drive of my Xbox One broke completely into the point that it is unreadable by the Xbox and my PC. It was a simple hard drive failure, with the hard drive ‘reading hand’ somehow lagging, which caused the magnetic structure of the hard drive to lose all data. This means I cannot transfer any data from the old drive to a theoretical new drive.

Can I simply buy a blank new hard drive, punch it in the Xbox One and turn it on? Or somehow use a flash drive to install a new OS on the hard drive? Is there any way I can make my Xbox One work again?

Thanks in advance :)

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Tom Chai @tomchai Rep: 75.5k 19 112 83 · Answer 1 · 2020-10-14T08:10:54-07:00

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You can’t expect it to work like the PS4, Xbox One is not designed with internal HDD user self-service in mind.

Although it is possible. There are utilities exist to format blank hard drives exact like Xbox One factory default, then download the correct version of the OS image and manually put all the files there, then the console should be ready for a recovery boot and you can further recover it to actual factory default.

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Cool, thanks for the answer! Can you name a utility I can use to format the hard drive? And where can I download a correct version of the OS?

Oct 14, 2020 by Harri Huttunen

Something like this:

https://www.pcsavants.com/tech-tips/xbox...

Not sure if it is still relevant or up to date, but you can try.

Oct 14, 2020 by Tom Chai

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