[XBone] Upgrading the 500 GB harddisk, a reality.

[DinohScene]

Team Xecuter member Juvenal has been working to upgrade the harddisk of the XBone.
It's not easy as it requires you to know about Linux but TX have stated to be working on a Windows application for it.

Xbox One HDD Tools

What this does:
Given any HDD over 500GB in size, you can format it for use with you Microsoft Xbox One console

Instructions:
All of this must be done as root! I HIGHLY suggest you do this on a livecd or usb booted system if you don't 'know linux' and would rather not wipe the wrong hard drive.
Connect your HDD and take note of what its called (ex: sda, sdb etc)
Run the script with the device name as the first parameter
It will bitch about missing partitions etc, but write a file with commands to create said missing partitions
Run the created script
Copy the correct files to the newly created partitions
Unmount the newly created partitions
Run the main script again

Putting it back together:
When you put the new HDD in your console for the first time and boot up, the console will go the the green "Xbox One" screen, pause for a second or two, then shut down. Boot the console again. This time it should pause at the green screen for a while longer, then go to a black screen for even longer. It can take several minutes before anything happens after this, the xbox is automatically creating temporary files during this time. If you copied everything correctly, it WILL go to the dashboard eventually, just be patient!

What is linux?
Wait for a windows version

Required Files:
These can be gotten off your original HDD easily

└── [4.0K] System Update
├── [4.0K] A
│ ├── [341M] deltas.xvd
│ ├── [ 36M] SettingsTemplate.xvd
│ ├── [ 24M] sosinit.xvd
│ ├── [ 62M] sostmpl.xvd
│ ├── [267M] systemaux.xvd
│ └── [850M] system.xvd
├── [4.0K] B
│ ├── [ 30M] SettingsTemplate.xvd
│ ├── [ 23M] sosinit.xvd
│ ├── [ 45M] sostmpl.xvd
│ ├── [ 91M] systemaux.xvd
│ └── [761M] system.xvd
└── [ 44M] updater.xvd

Source: XBonecrunch.
Edited the instructions slightly, no major changes.

 

[FAST6191]

Well that looks many times less annoying than doing it for the 360.

I will have to dig a bit deeper to see what is actually going on.

I suppose the question now is how MS will react.

 

[Taleweaver]

Ah...so in order to upgrade your hard drive on a Microsoft-based console, you'll need to run linux? Yeah...that makes sense. In a way.

 

[DinohScene]

Ah...so in order to upgrade your hard drive on a Microsoft-based console, you'll need to run linux? Yeah...that makes sense. In a way.

TX have stated to be working on a Windows application for it.

Majority of the hacking/modding tools are build on Linux.
After that they get ported to Windows.

 

[Qtis]

Well that looks many times less annoying than doing it for the 360.

I will have to dig a bit deeper to see what is actually going on.

I suppose the question now is how MS will react.

Indeed this. It would not be hard for Microsoft to check what kind of HDD you have in the console. If it was a non-retail variant (serial, size, whatnot), the results are to be seen. Doubt it'll result into a ban, but AFAIK didn't Microsoft specifically say that you can't change the internal HDD?