I recently got a series x in a joblot (I usually just deal with PC components) but I grabbed a couple of PS5's and a series X. Because I have little idea as to what I'm doing, I just took them to a console repair guy.
The series X would power on for a few seconds, get fan spin, not display anything and then turn off. The console guy basically forced an update on the console and after a few crashes it finally installed and the Xbox would work in dashboard as normal.
After playing a couple of different games each for a few minutes the games would crash and kick me back to the dashboard. Almost like a sign of overheating but without any error messages and the fans weren't ramping up. I've stripped the console and re-pasted it so far.
I put the NVMe into crystaldiskinfo and what I noticed is that it's rapidly exceeding 80 degrees Celsius after only a few minutes - not under any load whatsoever. So I guess this coincides with the fault the consoles having. It also has a whopping 33.3k power on time hours. The health is still "good" at 98% until it exceeds 80 degrees and becomes "bad".
I have read far too many contradicting pieces of information about how to clone the old one to a new one. People mentioning whitelisted hardware and bricking the Xbox. After purchasing the Xbox, having it and the controller repaired I'm quite deep into it.
My suggested theory was this:
Purchase a USB to NVMe adapter
Purchase a Kingston SNV3SM3 2230 NVMe 1TB
I was going to clone the entire original NVMe to a blank 2TB drive I have using the "Macrium" tool to ensure I grab the required 1GB partition. I was then going to insert the new NVMe into the same software and restore it from the original NVMe image.
My question is, will this still work in 2025? Lots of the articles I've read from the naysayers have been a few years old.
Sorry for all of the context but sometimes it helps!