xbox 360 external HDD not working. Possibly hacked?

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  1. timiimit
    timiimit Guest

    xbox 360 external HDD not working. Possibly hacked?


    Hello!

    yesterday in the morning it was working perfectly but not in the evening. Yesterday (6/11/2015) at about 8pm CEST(UTC +2) i got a update to xbox 360 of which there is no evidence that it exists i went to the system info and it says version 2.0.17349.0 which
    is supposed to be the latest one and released in april.

    After i installed the update which took much more time than usually (more than 30 min. usually takes about 10) I click my pins and press the game to play and i get to "download again" button. then i go check the storage in settings and i see only the 8GB
    Internal one. Then I rage a little bit(quite a lot) and turn off my xbox and put the 500 GB HDD out start xbox again, and turn it off, put it back in and restart again (as it instructs here: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/system/add-remove-hard-drive#77322f213d5743ed87743d7fd32a3e3f).
    But still it wasnt detected. I noticed that if i pull it out while its turned on xbox shuts down which means it is connected to it somehow. Now i tried today again and its still not detecting it in storage.

    Help Me please!!

    What should i do??

    :)
     
    timiimit, Jun 11, 2015
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  2. Full external HDD support needed for the 360

    Little late 2B asking, but better late than never.

    TB sized external support needed now more so than ever B4.

    The 360 era's main compitition fully supports TB sized external HDD, yet the 360 itself is limited to 500 GB, main and only 32 GB externally?!

    Yet when considering GwG plus install from disc games in order to keep wear/tear on the optics down to a minium. Us 360 owners need far more HDD space than 532 GB could possibly ever deliver.

    So why not give us 360 owners full external USB HDD support before this years E3?

    Thanks in advance! xbox 360 external HDD not working. Possibly hacked? :)
     
    ElectroFlying, Jun 11, 2015
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  3. Elohmn
    Elohmn Guest
    Yoostar 2 & External Harddrives

    Okay a little confusing but here's how it works. When any External Device be it a HDD or Flash Drive is used as a Storage Device (Memory for the Xbox 360), the Xbox 360 will only recognize it as such (a Storage Device) via the
    USB. In short, a really huge External HDD becomes a 16Gb (Max) Storage Device from USB.

    Some Games and some Features of Xbox LIVE require an Official MS Xbox 360 HDD that is for that particular Xbox 360 Console (ie Slim with Slim HDD). Simply using an External HDD will not work for these cases. Any External Storage Device is meant to supplement,
    not replace an Official HDD or the performance of one that some Games and Features require.
     
    Elohmn, Jun 11, 2015
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  4. Irixion
    Irixion Guest

    xbox 360 external HDD not working. Possibly hacked?

    Okay, first of all, if you're taking your HDD out while the console is on, you're damaging it. You're literally damaging the file system on it. Second of all, what's most likely happening is that the HDD is starting to fail. If the system doesn't detect
    it at all, make sure all the connections are clean, and _DO NOT_ remove or insert an HDD when the system is turned on. Under no circumstances.
     
    Irixion, Jun 11, 2015
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  5. timiimit
    timiimit Guest
    thank you for fast response. I only took it out while its turned on once and HDD is less than 6 months old how could it be already failing?? I made sure connections are clean but its still not working. I think it has something to do with the update because
    before it, it was working and after it wasn't.
     
    timiimit, Jun 11, 2015
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  6. onyxishere
    onyxishere Guest
    What brand of hard drive is it? Some drives do not play well with the Xbox console and can have frequent issues.

    Seagate and PNY drives are good examples of this.
     
    onyxishere, Jun 12, 2015
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  7. timiimit
    timiimit Guest
    I have normal xbox 360 drive. Sorry if title is misleading you by saying external. I wrote external because internal is the one you can't take out and i don't know how to call the other one. If you don't understand here is the image of hard drive I have:

    upload.wikimedia.org/.../Xbox-360-S-250GB-HD.jpg


    only difference between this one and mine is the size.
     
    timiimit, Jun 12, 2015
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  8. onyxishere
    onyxishere Guest

    xbox 360 external HDD not working. Possibly hacked?

    Ok, thanks for that. Now the internal storage is only flash memory and is 4gb, not 8.

    As for the hard drive, where did you purchase it and when?
     
    onyxishere, Jun 12, 2015
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  9. timiimit
    timiimit Guest
    My bad i thought it was 8 GB. I bought it on ebay 19th of March this year.
     
    timiimit, Jun 12, 2015
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  10. Hey there, timi! I'm sorry to see any issues with your console recognizing the hard drive! In addition to what Onyx is asking, I'm also very curious if your console recognizes any other hard drives or USB flash drives that you plug in. Post back with those
    little bits of information, and we'll see what our next steps are! xbox 360 external HDD not working. Possibly hacked? :)
     
    Misses Quinzel, Jun 12, 2015
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  11. Addendum: Could you please post back with images of your hard drive that you take? Frequently, hard drives purchased on eBay can be not official drives, and if you take a picture of the top and bottom of it, I will be able to let you know if it is or not.

    You will need to load the images up to a picture sharing site like OneDrive or one of your choice, and then post the link here on the forums.

    Thanks for your assistance in nailing this down!
     
    Misses Quinzel, Jun 12, 2015
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  12. onyxishere
    onyxishere Guest
    Thanks for jumping in Misses Quinzel. That is exactly what I was getting to. Ebay is never a good place to purchase Xbox hardware because you don't know where it came from or even if it's official.
     
    onyxishere, Jun 12, 2015
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  13. timiimit
    timiimit Guest

    xbox 360 external HDD not working. Possibly hacked?

    timiimit, Jun 12, 2015
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  14. Irixion
    Irixion Guest
    Well, you get what you pay for. That drive, like you said isn't official. There's probably some botched HDD in there. Probably WD with hacked firmware. Either way it looks like it bit the dust. Buy an official drive next time to avoid issues such as this.
     
    Irixion, Jun 12, 2015
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  15. timiimit
    timiimit Guest
    I found out that the disc is completely empty, it's not even formatted. Could that be the case why xbox is not detecting it?

    I will also try if it works on different xbox soon.
     
    timiimit, Jun 23, 2015
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