There’s an error of legends, a terrible problem that may force you to reset the Xbox. It may be your best option if turning on your device delivers an Xbox One stuck on a green screen.

The problem may happen immediately after turning on the console. Alternatively, it may interrupt the console as you play. Then, the green loading screen may crash to black.

The nickname for this problem is “Xbox Green Screen of Death.” It’s a bit of an exaggeration, though. There’re effective solutions and fixes. These solutions revolve around resetting the Xbox and cleaning up the database. 

The solutions are permanent and may take a while. So we want to make your job easier by listing the causes. There’s a chance you may identify your problem, which may lead you to the specific fix you want.

The error may happen on the Xbox One or Xbox Series console families. Often, it’s a booting failure. The result is seeing the green loading screen with no signs of changing.

It would be best to start the troubleshooting by confirming your console’s possible problem.

Afterward, you may try the specific solution you think you need. Alternatively, try the fixes, one by one, until you find the one that works.

A power cycle would be the solution if your console suffered an abrupt shutdown. It resets the console’s cache and erases power bugs and other potential random bugs.

The process allows the Xbox to do an integrity check after it boots. Therefore, it will allow it to find the files it needs to open the system again. 

The Xbox green loading screen detects, recovers, and uses the files it needs to work. Whenever there’re corrupted files, it means something is amiss, and it can’t start.

That doesn’t mean the Xbox can’t work. In fact, you may be dealing with random bugs rather than missing files.

So, we’re trying to bypass the integrity check. After bypassing the check, we can try updating the console normally to fix the issue permanently. 

First, here’s how to bypass the check.

After bypassing the loading screen, let’s try updating the console: 

Suppose there’s no update available, but the system booted into a very slow loading screen. In that case, you may try to reset it with its menu:

If the problem persists, move on to the next solution. 

A soft reset is similar to a power cycle. So, its purpose is to erase random bugs and glitches. Here’s what you can do:

Afterward, check if the console goes past the loading screen. If it does, update the system, or restore it.

The second option may take some time. Updating the Xbox console with a USB drive is not as easy as updating a PS4 with a USB.

Still, it’s the solution if your console fails after an update interruption. Also, the process may erase all of your data. Here’re the steps:

Here’s a full guide on updating the Xbox with a USB drive. It will cover up additional problems you may find during the process. 

If you go through the Xbox offline update guide and the process doesn’t work, your next option will erase all your data.

See, the PS4 and the PS5 have an option to clean up the database from its Safe Mode troubleshooter. The Xbox does not, so you’re forced to reset the system: 

Afterward, turn on the console normally, and try it again.

If none of the options below worked, there’s no guarantee that changing the storage would fix the issue. A professional would identify the existence of the real culprit if that were the case.

As I said above, the problem commonly occurs in storage. That said, for the Xbox One, you can get any HDD drive ranging from 250GB to 8TB. The Xbox Series uses a proprietary internal SDD, so only a repair would do the trick.

But, changing the HDD on either console family is delicate, so we recommend you take the console as a professional rather than doing it yourself.

Then, after putting in a new HDD, you have to install the system software. You’d do it with the OSU1 file I explained above on a USB drive. It’s the same steps as an offline update.

Lastly, you can manage your storage with additional external hard drives after you change the HDD.

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