Can't Connect to Xbox-Live, Requires Update, NOT ENOUGH STORAGE!??!

Hello,

As you know by reading the subject I am having issues with xbox live, bla bla bla

But i havent seen anything like this.

I've gone through forums and tried everything. Won't work.

As you know, people are getting problems connecting to xbox live. You test network connection, you can't connect and then you press YES on the update.

Thats all fine and dandy,

except for me.

It says i dont have enough storage. ALSO, when i Restart my xbox it requires the same update as soon as i come in. It doesnt even give me a chance to sign into BLACKHAWK, i press yes nothing doing, try again, nothing doing. What is going on!?!?!? So i press
b, and goto social and press join the fun. It doesnt even give me an account to sign into. It just gives me download profile. So i try to download profile and i can't do it. I press download profile and it says "To create or download an xbox live profile,
you must have an Xbox 360 storage device" Thats insane, i still have 191 GB on my hard drive for my Xbox. What is going on?

So i press cancel and press "Cant access your account?" it gives me Status Code : 8b050008-521d5747-2df6f9d3

..... What is going on?

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Hey there Blackhawk!

[quote user="BLACKHAWK 69XL"]I've gone through forums and tried everything. Won't work.[/quote]Appreciate if you can detailing out all steps you have tried up to this point, so we dont post up solutions that may only echo back.

If you haven't already, try the following steps up front and in given order and let us know how that goes.

Delete Xbox LIVE profile safely

Before you delete your profile you have to know the username and password for your Microsoft account that is associated with your profile.

1. Go to Settings, and then select System.
2. Select Storage.
3. Select All Devices.
4. Select Gamer Profiles.
5. Select the gamertag that you want to delete.
6. Select Delete.
7. Select Delete Profile Only. This deletes the profile but leaves saved games and achievements.
   

Clear Xbox system cache (3 times in a row)

1. Press the Guide button on your controller, go to Settings, and select System Settings.
   
2. Select Storage or Memory.
3. Highlight any storage device, and then press Y on your controller.
4. Select Clear System Cache.
5. Repeat this process three times in a row.

Restart your console.

Download Xbox LIVE profile.

1. Press the Xbox Guide button on your controller (large X button in the center of your controller).
   
2. Select Download Profile.
3. Enter the Microsoft account associated with your Xbox LIVE gamertag.
4. Enter your Microsoft account password.

 

I have tried all 3 of those, nothing has worked. Well actually, i couldn't even try them

For 1. When i go into storage all i have is "Unformatted", there is literally nothing else, can't try that i guess.

For 2. Whenever i press y over Unformatted, i can only do Format, i cannot do Clear System Cache

For 3. I cannot do download profile, because whenever i press it, it says

"To create or download and Xbox Live profile you must have an Xbox 360 storage device."

This doesn't make any sense, considering my Hard Drive has 191 GB left.

I infer that my Xbox is having an issue connecting to my Hard Drive, and this is the hard drive that i got with my Xbox. The one LOCATED INSIDE OF THE XBOX.

And also, what supports my inference even more so, is the fact that i don't have any available profiles to access. I have 2 profiles and another for my friends when they come to my house. I can't access those accounts, it doesn't even give
me an option to access them as well.

Another inference,

I think this is all happening because of what i did before these chain of events happened. I will relay you everything that happened

I was playing Skyrim and my game crashed, this DOES happen, but not often. Anyways, my controller wouldn't work or anything, i press the power off/on button on the Xbox, nothing doing. So i just took the cord that goes from my Xbox, to the rectangular box
connected to my Xbox, to the outlet. Took that out, Xbox turns off. Put it back in, restart the Xbox and everything i explained up top happened.

It would be EXTREMELY UNFORTUNATE if i have to buy a new hard drive and lose ALL OF MY GAMES AND PROFILES. I THINK i can get all that back if i do have to come to this last resort, but i pray we don't have to get to that crossroads.

Thank you

 

What king of console do you have? FAT, S or E?

Do you have a hard drive for it or is it the standard 4 GB (S or E only)?

If you have a hard drive attached and it is an S or E can you try removing the drive to see if the issue changes? The issue could very well be with the drive itself.

 

My console is an Xbox 360 S

I have the standard-came-inside-the-xbox hard drive. It is 250 GB. I do not have anything else attached to my Xbox.

 

The only solution to this point, is to try what onyx62is suggested, to have your console powered off and safely remove the hard drive. Re-attach your drive and make sure it's properly connected and power on your console.

The "Unformatted" condition of your hard drive is a way for the system to inform its attempt to read data from its partitions has failed and often caused by data being damaged or corrupted.

If your console is still covered by warranty, where the hard drive (accessory) is covered by 90 days warranty from the date you purchased it (or console) you can then send your console in for a repair. https://myservice.xbox.com/

You can also try format the hard drive, but all data will be lost during this process.

The games you purchased as DLC's from Xbox Marketplace, and which are still accessible from the Marketplace, can easily be downloaded with the profile you used for your purchases.

Your profile can also be easily downloaded from Xbox Live.

 

Are there any specific time periods I have to go through when the hard drive is being taken out? Example : take out hard drive, wait 60 seconds, put hard drive back in, wait 5 minutes, etc etc etc?

 

There is no official statement that advertise you to wait for a specific time period.

My recommendation is to wait a couple of minutes before you remove the hard drive. Then just add it back.

Here's how:
support.xbox.com/.../add-remove-hard-drive

 

Ok, well i removed the hard drive, waited 5 minutes, put it back in, waited 5 minutes. The xbox has been off for at least and hour before i removed it.

When I put it back in GUESS WHAT CHANGED!!!!!!

Nothing......

 

Then follow the remaining steps, as per my second post (scroll up).

I'm sorry, but there's no official solution made to solve this from your end.

 

Thank you!

I hope you get this solved, one way or the other.

Good luck and take care!