External hard drive - original Xbox games

Hi,

What do you mean that you're using a 250GB external hard drive? Are you using a USB external hard drive? External USB Hard drives won't work for playing original Xbox games.

If you are using an original Xbox 360 console where the hard drive fits on top make sure that the hard drive you have is an original hard drive and not a 3rd party hard drive. If you've purchased a hard drive for this console separately from a website like
eBay or Amazon Marketplace it's likely that you've purchased a 3rd party hard drive.

Only original Xbox 360 hard drives that are manufactured by Microsoft will work on your Xbox 360. Otherwise, they would give you this error whether it was an original Xbox game from the Xbox LIVE marketplace or on a disc.

More information on this can be found here.

Original Xbox games that are on the backwards compatibility list will only work with original Xbox 360 hard drives from Microsoft. That's how it's been forever, you cannot run these games on knock off/fake hard drives, or even your own hard drives. They
will also not run on USB Flash Drives, or external hard drives.

USB flash drives and external hard drives will work for almost any game available for the Xbox 360, however they do not work for Xbox original games. Original games require an official Xbox hard drive to play.

If you have any questions regarding this do not hesitate to to reply here or you can PM me. Thanks.

Hi,

Where or from who did you buy the hard drive?

Original Xbox games on the 360 require an official MS hard drive - external storage won't work.

If your hard drive is not an official MS hdd, it will be missing the emulator files to allow original games on the BC list to run on your 360.

Xbox original games require an official Xbox hard drive. You can't use external hard drives or USB Flash drives as they won't work with that game, even if you managed to download it to them. Xbox original games require both the Xbox emulation software
and a hard drive cache to run. Both the emulator and the cache are only available on an official hard drive.

Don't bother with cheaper Xbox 360 hard drives from private sellers on Amazon or auction sites such as eBay either as these are fake hard drives and are missing the emulator and the required hard drive cache.