Xbox one HDD files

LeeTheTech · Mar 22, 2016

Hello, I just bought a new HDD for my xbox one because my old one died. Does anyone have a copy of the boot files I can move onto the partitions? Like the files for when you first boot a XB1?

Thanks,

- Lee

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ratedmoney · Mar 22, 2016

Original Xbox backwards compatibility problem on Xbox 360

Is your HDD a legitimate one from Microsoft ? the reason I asked is because people were able to make HDDs for the 360 by extracting files from original 360 HDDs and putting them in theirs. The issue with that is those HDDs could not automatically get the necessary files for backwards compatibility. You would have to hook the HDD up to your computer and manually do it.

John Wolf · Mar 22, 2016

WILLING TO PAY FOR SUPPORT, lost Xbox 360 profiles and games

I copied all files that were on the Xbox 360 HDD in the content folder, to my PC hard drive.
I have ZERO idea how to tell if a 360 file is corrupt.
I appreciate your advice, and I am hoping for some step by step, or something....
JW

Skeeter Quill · Mar 22, 2016

That's not something that's publicly available. I doubt its even as simple as formatting the drive. You'd probably also need a different firmware for the HDD.

Skeeter Quill

That's not something that's publicly available. I doubt its even as simple as formatting the drive. You'd probably also need a different firmware for the HDD.

Tzar of kaos

You got 3 choices

Move a file/game to one HDD to another.

Copy a file/game,it will appears on both HDD.

Delete file/game.

Derek_10

The media files are either MPEG-4 or MKV. I can confidently say that the issue is not due to file compatibility as I have many other files in those formats that play just fine.

This is the exact issue: I have an external HDD connected to my Xbox with all my media (movies mainly) files that I have saved throughout the years. When you initially connect an external HDD to the Xbox it asks if this is for storing Games/Screen Captures
or if this is for Media playback. In this case media playback is selected and then all the files currently on the HDD will show up and play without issue.

Now here is the issue. After the initial setup and selecting this HDD as media only, any additional files I add to my HDD the Microsoft Media Player as well as VLC will recognize the file/folder depending on how I have it formatted, but:

1) If the file is not in a folder both programs will recognize the file but will not play it

or

2) If the file is in a folder, then when I open the folder the folder is empty.

This is a new issue and has never happened in the past.

One potential temporary solution I thought of, but I don't know how to do it or if it is possible: Can I have the Xbox forget the external HDD (without clearing the HDD obviously) so as to the next time I plug it in it will recognize the external HDD as
a new drive and I can select Games vs Media again? This way after media is selected all my new files will show up as well.

Update: I restarted my Xbox and reselecting the Games vs Media did not work. When trying to play an individual file (of the new files just added, because all my previous files in the same format work just fine)

Update #2: The external HDD I am using is a WD 8TB Easy store. As I stated above all my old files work but none of the new files do. As my issue was not formatting, I dug out my old HDD (a 2TB Seagate) and added my new files to that. All the new files played
normally. The question is.... why are new files not playing on my WD while they play normally on the Seagate. (BTW: Yes both HDD are formatted the same, exFAT). At least for me this appears to be an external HDD issue. I will do one more update after clearing
my WD HDD before adding everything back, but this will take around 1 day.

Update #3: After erasing all media and adding it back to my WD external HDD all files (including the new ones) play as normal.

SlimJuggler9939

if you want to use that HDD for xbox games, you cant copy files from MAC to xbox one

JDBAKER

Now that this (Destiny: Digital Guardian Edition for the Xbox One) is available for direct pre-order, pre-load for XBox One, what's the download file size and actual footprint (i.e., actual installed file size on Xbox One HDD)?

Xbox one HDD files