System Update E### error issues possible fix.

So I found myself at wits end tryign to fix in my case E102, then 101, then 200, then 105 errors. Below is the method that worked to fix the issue.

I borrowed and slightly modified from this post - https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/xbox-one-e101-fix-and-tutorial.1303830/

1. You’ll need to open up the xbox. The required tools are actually pretty simple. I do in full disclosure have a fully stocked garage and electronics toolset so I was able to do this on the fly where some may need to go pickup tools. I’ll list below cheap tools to do the trick. I did use a drill and it worked perfectly. That said, using a drill on electronics is generally a horrible idea and takes some finesse. You can easily over torque or under torque without knowing. If you decide not to do this by hand please be cognizant of your torque levels. I pulled screws at full torque. I put them back in on a 2 and increase to a 4 where they didn’t seem fully spun. Some of the screws were wedged in. I did initially start by hand. I didn’t have the energy to do it all one by one though. Long story is I spent the last week in the hospital with an issue in the ICU and I am short on physical energy at the moment. Please be warned about the ribbon cable in the front. Didn't notice it till later. It was no big deal to reattach. I just didn’t even realize it was there until I’d pulled the cover off already. I used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-d6vuIjmyE for orientation purposes and to figure out which screws went back where. No extra work tracking is needed if you just reverse the work in the beginning of the video above. I reseated all of the long screws first and the rest were cake. Do not bother pulling the black screws that are shown in the video. They do not attach to anything that needs to be removed for what we’re working on.
2. Once all the screws are removed and the top and bottom cover are removed you should be able to pull the drive. The metal case will basically open like a clam. The drive is lover under the BluRay. Its screwed to a platform. Once the screws are off it slides off super easy. I happen to be in the middle of an update on an unraid server and shucked a bunch of external drives. I cannibalized the enclosures for this so I wouldn't need to power down my computer and it worked fine. If you aren't as lucky for parts laying around any laptop with a second drive port will work or turn off your desktop and add this in as a system drive. It was instantly recognized and opened multiple "drives" for the partitions.
3. For the fix the only partition I cared about was "System Update" I didn't bother formatting. I did as recommended backup the entire partition before updating. There is where the OP on the walkthrough I found ran into permission issues. I did not have any issues with permissions. Everything just worked. I saw the files in the A folder were dated in October. The files from the update on the USB were November. Additionally, there was 1 file on the main folder in System Update that had a 0 size. I updated that file and the files in the A folder with the files from the downloadable USB update.

A. The file in the main folder was called updater.xvd and had a size of 0 bytes. Once fixed it was aprox 83mb. This is as of Dec 8th so if your reading this down the road file sizes may have changed.

B. In the “A” directory everything was dated 10/23/2019. There were 6 files. 3 of them matched files from the OSU1 update. They were SettingsTemplate.xvd, systemmisc.xvd, and SystemTools.xvd. None of the other OSU files matched up to anything I saw. I updated only those 3 files. Again, this is as of Dec 8th, if the update payload changes you may need to update/add other files.

C. My assumption is that the “B” folder is a backup of a previous update and thus I made no changes to it.

1. From there I sealed everything back up and attempted to boot. Initially it errored out. That’s because it actually needed to redo the original failed update now. It defaulted to downloading on its own went through all 3 steps and now I'm looking at the normal GUI.

Update: 12/09/2019 – I cleaned up and updated the above. For some reason my first day back to work after a vacation and a hospital stay had me too amped to sleep so instead of hearing my alarm at 7am I just woke up at 5:30am lol.

Additional things to keep in mind. If you followed the now obviously asinine steps MS laid out to fix this and were probably as frustrated as I was with the issue you probably tried a factory reset. As a result, I had to reset the system settings when it finally came back up. My advice would be to use the miscrosoft.com/link option as that was a breeze relatively speaking. Also, much to my chagrin the system hadn’t completed a full factory reset. Only settings were gone. Apps were still there oddly although they needed to reset themselves for a second. I just popped in Shadow of War and was greeted with a popup that it will take a min or two to setup. Oddly, that proved wrong and within 30 seconds it was reloading the game without actually needing to reinstall… praise XBOX.

Conclusion: MS needs to fix this. What I had to do could be done with a batch file most likely. They tried to charge me something along the lines of $240 USD to send them my system and fix this. If we weren’t less than a year from a new gen I might have actually just gone ahead and paid. If someone wants to do a batch file for this, I’ll link to it. Also, I’m going to create a separate post with this to make it easier to find.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e0x7nk7x906z7zn/X-Box_SysUpd.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhrqh0ebohcxa5w/X-Box_A-Folder.png?dl=0

Tool Suggestion: I have a little more intricate tool but for $10 this should work perfectly for anyone with delicate electronics. A key feature should be that it free spins while you hold it making it easier to keep everything in place. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-Precision-screwdriver-14-Piece-Plastic-Handle-Multi-Bit-Screwdriver-Set/1000026849

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