Xbox One S System Update partition

With the xbox one, the HDD needs to be formatted in its entirety with the Xbox One formatting and partition system, which is slightly different than Windows. The console OS won't "recognize" the hard drive as a game drive until you format it for the games
on the console.

If you intend on doing both, you need to partition the hard drive in windows, then take it to the console and format it for the games on one partition and media the other.

When you partition a hard drive, everything on it is lost, and you will need to redownload the games to it on the partition you want it to.

The 4GB 360 S's storage space isn't "treated" as flash memory, it IS flash memory. It's attached to an internal USB port on the motherboard.



A HDD is required because every XBOX game expects there to be a 2GB cache partition it can cache game content on. USB's read/write performance and its read/write durability do not lend itself to use as a cache partition for the XBOX. The 2GB cache partition
only exists on the 360's HDD. It's part of the 4.7GB of space that the 360 reserves for system usage on every HDD.



The 360 S has a small trap door on the right/bottom of the console. That's where the HDD goes. This bay is empty on the 4GB 360 S. Opening the trap door and fitting an official 250GB 360 S HDD does not void the warranty on the console.

None of this helps. I can't update the firmware without choosing a system disk. If i setup the system disk before update I can only create 32 gb of space. I have let the xbox create the partitions with no luck.

Most game updates are stored in a hidden 'system' partition of the hard drive. This hard drive cache can be come full or corrupted over time. When that happens, game updates may not store correctly, hence the need to keep updating.

This guide explains how to clear the cache:
http://support.xbox.com/en-us/xbox-360/troubleshoot/hardware/clear-system-cache

This procedure only clears this hidden partition, no other data is effected. Once it is done, you will of course be asked to update your games again, but it should only be once.

Yes please, most of the Xbox app games requires an NTFS partition

To avoid formatting the entire drive (if you don't mind)
I can advise you to create a new NTFS partition shrinking the one you want to use:
https://www.diskpart.com/articles/partition-ntf...

And don't forget to select the new partition as where new content is going to be installed via Windows settings > System > Storage