What USB sticks are recognised for offline updates

Heya there!

First off, all NTFS formatted USB-Sticks should work, at least I don't know of any that are explicitly unsupported. There might be some reasons giving you problems here:

• Make sure once again the stick is formatted as NTFS. In some instances Windows pre-selects FAT instead. (But as you mentioned NTFS already, I guess you have this one checked)
  
• As per the official manual, (https://support.xbox.com/en-IN/help.../system-update-solution/offline-system-update) you need to have the $SystemUpdate in the stick's root directory. Not in sub-folders, and not the packed .zip file, this is easy to mix up
  
• if you / your console is signed up to the "XBox Insider" program, the Insider builts are different from the Offline Update ones, so you can't use offline update as far as I know if you're using the Insider builts. So, for the update to work, you'd need to leave Insider first with the console
  

I hope that one of those things might be the cause of the problem here, otherwise I hope other people have more ideas.

Best wishes, let us know if you can get it to work!

Greetings,
Bryan

I have repeatedly formatted the HDD... and then rebooted the console with the USB stick in (which has the update unzipped on it) - it now won't recognise this usb stick & update.... I'm pulling my hair out

Hi Allebas,

I have tried to do a offline update by downloading the update files onto USB and the console would not recognise it or show any indication I could update offline

Try the offline update using a PC and a USB stick please

That's right Arturo, I've been downloading offline updates onto a usb memory stick, but can't access the troubleshooter to install. Not sure what to do?