Corrupted Memory Unit

My 4gb memory unit in my Xbox has stopped working, shows only few megabytes left but there is nothing stored in it. This happened after an update to Xbox live and it became "unformatted". I reformatted it but couldn't recover my data. Now I keep everything
on a flash drive, which is not that big of a deal. Now that a new update is available, I get an error code when I try to download it because it won't fit on my *** up memory unit. So now I haven't been able to connect to Xbox live for months, my profile is
gone, along with all game progress. The only solution I can think of is to unformat my hard drive so that the update will download onto the flash drive instead of the hard drive, but I can't seem to find how to do that. Any suggestions or other solutions?
Thanks!

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Corrupted memory unit - Help!

One thing to try would also be using a USB stick to save things onto, as long as its a fairly decent USB it will be useable as a save device, could by pass the issue your having in the future

 

Corrupted memory unit - Help!

Well to send it in for a repair the cost is $99 out of warranty. In warranty it's covered. If you can get to the settings on the console, try clearing the cache.

 

Hi, the system update will not install to your external storage devices, from what you describe the internal memory unit has failed and the xbox needs to be sent in for repair.

CLICK for instructions to get your xbox repaired.

 

Ugh, I figured. Thanks anyway. I'm going to try saving the update to a flash drive from my computer and then update it that way. Hopefully it works because I really don't want to have to send it in for repairs.

 

Hi, the update just won't install even from a USB flash drive if the internal memory unit has failed.