Xbox one e101 error after hard drive replacement

TrooperN · Jan 8, 2020

I have a xbox one original and it had given me an e200 error and I looked that up and most people said it was hard drive related so I replaced the hard drive with a 500gb wd black and it worked fine for a while then it started giving me the e101 code, so
I did some research and people said it was the hard drive and I have tried many things like resetting the console, holding the power button and unplugging the power for long periods of time, nothing seems to be working. This only happens when I am trying to
update and it will give that error and if I restart it enough times it gets through the update fine. The weird thing is that the old hard drive is currently being used in a laptop and works perfectly fine. After I started getting this error recently I installed
the latest update if I push the xbox button on the controller the screen goes darker and then returnes back to normal and the menu never shows up and it won't let me sign into any accounts.

So I was wondering if there was anything else I could try or is it unfixable?

:)

Smwutches

The hard drive is not meant to be swapped out and is a violation of the terms of service to do so. As such, we cannot assist on the forums.

DarthJediNinja

Go through the steps here and that should fix your problem. If for some reason you are still having problems you can contact support here.

Georges C.

Hello again, If you are getting the E101 error, it means your console's internal hard drive has bad clusters and needs to be replaced.

JosefLBohorquez

Yeah, error E101 is not very descriptive

But if you search videos or posts related to error E106, in some cases the error points to a failure in the internal hard drive (that can be fixed replacing it)

bubb4 j4mes 87

I tried using both and I get an E101 error. Do I need to add it to the software update folder on the hard drive?

Xbox one e101 error after hard drive replacement