Startup Screen Freeze

Still nothing. I have it downloaded on internal and tried it with a secondary acc, including reinstall, but it still continues to freeze on the startup screens.

Hi, could you connect the hard drive but disconnect your console from the Internet, does it still freeze on the startup screen ?

Well, I got less lag at startup, but loading screens seem the same outrageous length...

I'll let you know if the game freezes less often.

The only thing I believe "and please don't trash me for thinking", is that there was an error in the update and it either contains corrupt files, or it is so off that the system is going haywire with errors and cant catch up. before this problem occurred
for me I first noticed my power cubes sleep mode acting up immediately after update, then same as everyone else since the update, about three days and then im down to tricking my xbox to work, which btw worked absolutely positively fine before this stupid
pointless update. Xbox is turning out like PlayStation, they just have to have all these advertisements and random bs that pointless to gamers. I mean if I wanted to watch adds for cars or deodorant, I would watch tv. blaaaaaa. can you tell im frustrated...
Hopefully a fix is in the works, or I am going back to pc. If any one finds better way to trick there system for now please let me know... Btw to prove my theory about the hdd being fine. once I am able to trick my xbox into starting up by disconnecting
my network cable, turning the console on and loads right up, I load minecraft which is on harddrive and it works fine. once game is loaded I can connect to live, but ill be damned if I hit the home button( lol after that its about a ten min wait till home
screen goes away.

If you cannot get past that loading screen with the HDD inserted at all, then the drive will need to be repaired or replaced. If you purchased it with a new console, it will have the same one-year warranty as the console. If it was purchased new on its own,
then it should have a 90-day warranty.

If you'd like to set up a repair, you can reach our phone team at 800-4MY-XBOX.