Xbox One Hard Drive Upgrade | How to Clone Xbox One Hard Drive

Prepare for Xbox One Internal Hard Drive Upgrade

This article guides you on how to upgrade Xbox One hard drive. You can quickly replace your hard drive and avoid data loss by cloning it. But before you start, please make some preparations:

🔍1. Prepare screwdrivers, pry bars, etc. to remove the original hard disk from your Xbox One. You can refer to the full tutorial provided by iFixit:

• Use a pry bar to separate the clips.
• Use tweezers to remove cables and panels.
• Lift the hard disk tray to remove the hard disk.

🔍2. Connect the Xbone One internal hard drive and the target SSD/HDD to your computer and download the reliable cloning tool - AOMEI Partition Assistant:

As a comprehensive tool for disk and partitions, AOMEI Partition Assistant provides cloning functionality specifically for hard drive upgrades and will help you upgrade your Xbox One hard drive without losing any data or customized settings.

🔍3. Purchase a certified SSD or larger HDD and initialize it to MBR or GPT so that the Xbox One can recognize it. The AOMEI tool helps you to automatically initialize your hard disk and format it to the target format.

How to clone Xbox One internal hard drive to SSD/HDD

AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional helps you to get an exact copy of the current internal hard drive. All games and other data, settings, and programs will be cloned to a new hard drive or SSD. This tool supports cloning larger HDD to smaller SSD by only copying the used space from the source disk to the destination disk.

In addition, the tool offers some extra help in Xboe One internal hard drive replacement, such as changing FAT32 to NTFS without formatting. In short, using a professional and safe cloning expert can save time and effort in re-imaging.

Before we get started, you should make some preparations:
◥ Connect your Xbox internal hard drive and the target HDD or SSD with your computer using a mobile hard disk box.
◥ Please back up the disk if there is important data on the HDD/SSD, and it will be formatted during the process.
◥ Install AOMEI Partition Assistant on your PC.
◥ If the new hard drive is not NTFS file system, use AOMEI Partition Assistant to convert it to NTFS file system.

The tool provides a simple interface that makes it easy for everyone to work like an expert. You can click the following button to download the demo version. Just follow the steps below to see how to perform Xbox One internal hard drive replacement or upgrade:

Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Clone" in the main interface, and select "Clone Disk".

Step 2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".

Step 3. Select the destination disk to store the data on the source disk, and then click "Next".

Step 4. Then, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to “Sector to Sector clone”, and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.

Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk or tick "4k alignment" to improve the reading and writing speed of the SSD if the target disk is an SSD drive.

Step 5. At last, click "Apply" and "Proceed" in the main interface to start cloning the hard drive.

Step 6. When the cloning process is finished, insert the cloned SSD in your Xbox to replace or upgrade the Xbox internal hard drive.

★Tips:

The same method can also be applied to upgrade desktop or PC HDD to SSD.

Whether you are using Xbox One S or Xbox One X, or other versions, you can use this following method to upgrade your hard drive.

If your computer is using the Windows Server system, you can turn to AOMEI Partition Assistant Server Edition, which was specialized for Server OS.

Why Clone Xbox One Hard Drive?

Xbox One is the successor of Xbox 360. Since it was first released in November 2013, it has attracted a large number of gamers relying on its internet-based features, such as the ability to record, the capability to integrate with a set-top box, voice control, and the 4K video playback and HDR10 supported by Xbox One S version.

However, many users will ask how to clone Xbox One internal hard drive so as to finish the Xbox internal hard drive replacement or upgrade for the following purposes.

✦ Insufficient hard drive space. Microsoft equips each Xbox One with a 500GB or 1000GB hard drive; it is definitely not enough for a game console. And after years of use, the internal hard drive would be running out of space. You can delete some games and files to free up space, but it doesn’t do much help. Instead, replacing the Xbox One internal hard drive with a large one can solve this issue better and thoroughly.
✦ Better gaming experiment. Like other HDD, the running speed of the Xbox internal hard drive is much slower than SSD. As the price of SSD has sharply fallen, many users want to clone Xbox One hard drive to SSD to upgrade their Xbox One internal hard drive and enjoying better gaming experiments.

In the above, we have illustrated how to upgrade the Xbox One internal hard drive to a larger HDD/SSD by cloning the hard drive. Download Aomei Partition Assistant and try to get better performance of your Xbox drives!

Conclusion

Cloning Xbox One internal hard drive is a good way to upgrade the internal hard drive and deal with low hard drive space. As the SSD price has sharply dropped recently, replacing the internal hard drive with SSD is the best choice if you want to improve the running speed of your Xbox.

By the way, AOMEI Partition Assistant can do lots of help for your Xbox. If you want to change the file system of your drive, it can also format the Xbox hard drive.