Xbox One black screen after HDD upgrade

ultimate360

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Nov 11, 2013
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I finally got around to trying out the HDD upgrade tool in J-Runner recently. I plugged in a 1TB drive from a laptop that I upgraded to an ssd and cleaned it in diskpart right away. Once clean, I opened the JR tool and it successfully formatted and partitioned the drive for the Xbox. I then took the A folder, B folder, and updater file from my original drive on the System Update partition and copied them to the new System Update partition on the new 1TB drive. I then ejected the drive and put it into the XB1 and fired it up.

It showed the green boot screen for about 10 seconds and then cut to the expected black screen. Knowing that it was supposed to do this, I just walked away and watched YouTube for 30min while I let the Xbox do its thing. When I came back after 30min however, it was still at that black screen doing nothing. I listened closely through the vent and cannot hear the hard drive doing anything.

Did I miss something? This was my first time trying this and may have missed a crucial step, but from what I can tell I did this right.

Probably worth mentioning that it made the sign-in noise after a couple minutes of turning it on and even showed the little green sign-in rectangle at the bottom of the screen, but that's as far as it got.

Any insight to what might be wrong would be appreciated :)
 

nofeloniesyet

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ive never had any luck with jrunners tool for xbox one hdd,i had to do everything in linux
 

jweb6102

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ive never had any luck with jrunners tool for xbox one hdd,i had to do everything in linux
linux is the better option here, before you copy across the files though you might want to expand the user content partition to accommodate the extra gig's otherwise your console will revert that hard drive back to 500gb standard. if you get stuck (errors) give me a shout
 

kalki

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linux is the better option here, before you copy across the files though you might want to expand the user content partition to accommodate the extra gig's otherwise your console will revert that hard drive back to 500gb standard. if you get stuck (errors) give me a shout
Hi jweb,
I have opened up a separate topic under Noob Room and I am looking for a tutorial for booting up a xbox one with a newly purchased 500gb harddrive. The stock harddrive is unreadable and don't have any backup data of it.

Can you help please?