Is there any way to fix an Xbox one HDD filesystem?

Diego448 · Jun 6, 2020

Past year my 1.5 year old Xbox One started failing a lot, some startup errors showing up, then was unable to save game data, and finally I was unable to move games between external and internal drive. I tought the HDD was dead, but it never showed HDD error
codes, so my only guess left is that somehow the filesystem become corrupted. I tried formatting all the console and deleting everything, udpating the console offline, but no luck at all.

Is there any way I can fix the Xbox One filesystem?

I know I can do so on a Windows PC using chkdsk, but not sure if Xbox One has any troubleshoot tools to fix the filesystems on the repair options on startup. Or if is there anyway I can remove the HDD, connect it to a Windows PC and fix the filesystems.

Quick edit, the only reason I want to fix my old Xbox One X instead buying a new one is because it is a Project Scorpio edition, and I have no way to get any of these.

Note: I want to know if Microsoft can bring some Xbox OS iso in case I need to reformat entirely my HDD again, I know the OSU1 files contain important update files but not the full OS.

:)

Diego448

I understand the risk, but I have no plans to modify anything inside the HDD, just want to check the filesystem. And talking about warranty, it has expired long ago. Hope there is some official way to check and repair the filesystem without opening the
console.

Smwutches

There would be no way for you to fix it yourself without violating the terms of service and putting the console at risk for being banned. It would need to be send in to Microsoft to be fixed.

FiftyFour Bravo

remove the files from the hdd, reformat the hdd to FAT32 and put the files back on it, the 360 can only see that filesystem if used as a Memory Unit

IceStorm III

[quote user="NanoTechSoldier"]It's how a Hard Disk Drive works Ice Storm III... No discussing it...[/quote]Apparently not as you have some misguided notion that the physical layout matters to the filesystem.

It was also saying, about the performance
difference on a bigger HDD to a smaller HDD & why they only use 320GB in a XBOX at the moment..

The performance issue is a filesystem, not a mechanical, issue. MS can elect to short-stroke larger drives if it so chooses.

IceStorm III

[quote user="NanoTechSoldier"]FATX is Larger than FAT32[/quote]FATX and FAT32 are filesystem types. The way you're using the word "Larger" here has no meaning.

Everything uses Digital TimeStamps on Hard Drives & partitions are one of them...

Would
you like to define what "Digital TimeStamps" are in your mind? Creation and modification times do not "lock" drives to one particular device or another.

FAT32 Partitions on a NTFS HDD, are only Virtual Partitions & require Digital TimeStamps...

Uh....
that's not in any way how partitioning works in this instance. You appear to be confusing virtual disk images with actual HDD partitions.

Is there any way to fix an Xbox one HDD filesystem?