Long story short, I spilled soda by mistake into my Xbox Ones fan while it was off. How? I placed my cup on the table wrong. Yes. I know.. After that it would just turn on and beep then turn of directly after...
So days later I opened it, to try and clean it/fix it, and I have concluded that it is unfixable at this point, BUT I had an idea.. I can sell it on eBay for parts. So I took the 1TB HD out of its enclosure, and using my external harddrive cables and power supply, I pluged it in to my Windows 10 PC. Now "why are you plugging it?.. just sell it.." you must be asking yourself. Well, when it died I was still signed into my xbox live account, and Youtube account, and my cloud storage was signed in aswell... so what I want to do is connect it to my computer and fully delete my account information so like that I can safely sell it.
(The HDD is called WD Blue 1.0TB WD10JPVX)
So I plugged it into my PC and It gave me 5 partitions Temp Content, User Content, User Support, System Update, System Update 2, and the entire thing as a whole is labelled ATA/ATAPI bridge. It says that when you go to eject usb.
System Update 2 is empty, the rest contain files of which I'm not quite sure whats left or right honestly, and I'm extremely tech savvy.. so if you guys could help, that would be great! I'm going to guess that my private information, xbox live account, cloud storage, and sign in information is in User Content?
When I open User Content, it shows a folder entitled PLS then another entitled SharedStorage and then under, it shows a TON of file pages that seem to have random letters and numbers on it. For ex: 627F6282-62827G728J-YWO087HSO Also for 2 of those in between those letters and numbers it says Netflix, and Zune video.. so I assume these are the Xbox One apps?
Remember I JUST want to delete my private information so I can sell it online for someone else to happily use on their Xbox One, so do not tell me to format it, because that would leave them without a dashboard, OS, or updates.. which would make it unusable.
Thanks in advance!!
(PS I WOULD simply stick it into a friends Xbox One then delete my profile and info, but none of my friends have an Xbox One.)
So days later I opened it, to try and clean it/fix it, and I have concluded that it is unfixable at this point, BUT I had an idea.. I can sell it on eBay for parts. So I took the 1TB HD out of its enclosure, and using my external harddrive cables and power supply, I pluged it in to my Windows 10 PC. Now "why are you plugging it?.. just sell it.." you must be asking yourself. Well, when it died I was still signed into my xbox live account, and Youtube account, and my cloud storage was signed in aswell... so what I want to do is connect it to my computer and fully delete my account information so like that I can safely sell it.
(The HDD is called WD Blue 1.0TB WD10JPVX)
So I plugged it into my PC and It gave me 5 partitions Temp Content, User Content, User Support, System Update, System Update 2, and the entire thing as a whole is labelled ATA/ATAPI bridge. It says that when you go to eject usb.
System Update 2 is empty, the rest contain files of which I'm not quite sure whats left or right honestly, and I'm extremely tech savvy.. so if you guys could help, that would be great! I'm going to guess that my private information, xbox live account, cloud storage, and sign in information is in User Content?
When I open User Content, it shows a folder entitled PLS then another entitled SharedStorage and then under, it shows a TON of file pages that seem to have random letters and numbers on it. For ex: 627F6282-62827G728J-YWO087HSO Also for 2 of those in between those letters and numbers it says Netflix, and Zune video.. so I assume these are the Xbox One apps?
Remember I JUST want to delete my private information so I can sell it online for someone else to happily use on their Xbox One, so do not tell me to format it, because that would leave them without a dashboard, OS, or updates.. which would make it unusable.
Thanks in advance!!
(PS I WOULD simply stick it into a friends Xbox One then delete my profile and info, but none of my friends have an Xbox One.)