Xbox 360 Games requiring Internal Hard drive over 2 TB Xbox Storage Unit

I have 2 Xbox 360 Slims across country from one another.

When I travel I used to lug one of the internal 250GB drives and just pop it in to use it. But one of the 2 drives (I have 2 because of the 2 different Xboxs) red rings, the other one works fine as a replacement though. However, incase the other drive red
rings, I sought out a 2 TB Xbox 360 / Xbox One Storage Unit. I have been using that for a while now without any problems until now.

I'm at one of the two houses and the Xbox 360 Slim here does not have the old internal drive inside it. Not a problem because I have one 8x the size that connects via USB cable… however, I plug it in and the Xbox does not recognize it as a Xbox 360 Hard
drive, not as a Formated Xbox 360 Hard drive. The Xbox refuses to allow me to use it as my "Official Xbox 360 Storage" unit unless I wipe the 2 TB hard drive. I got around this with an old USB that had about 9GB left. I made the smaller one my "Official" storage
and decided I would just select the 2 TB hard drive to use for games. It does not allow this, I can sign in on my account that is on the 2 TB but not access saves, games, etc. I backed out, removed the USB from being my "Official" hard drive and read the options
more.

It mentions I can use up to 32GB of the 2 TB hard drive as my "Official" drive, but that any other information on the 2 TB drive would become inaccessible.

However, it continues to whine and require a Xbox 360 Hard drive to runmost games, only one that runs is Halo Reach.

I'm stuck in a loop, I can get some games with low storage requirement updates to run, but I can't get bigger games like Destiny or downloaded games like Chivalry to run. (Destiny needing more than 10GB of updates which are already downloaded on the 2 TB
drive and downloaded games being the ones also on the 2 TB drive)

How do I fix this? Can this be fixed? Do I have to try and trick the console?

:)

 

Updating Xbox after a month or 2 of not playing

From the Support page at:

support.xbox.com/.../system-update-help.aspx

A storage device (memory unit or hard drive) was not found during the software update. Follow these steps:

1. Turn off your console.

2. Remove all console storage devices, including any USB flash drives, external hard drives, or the internal hard drive on the Xbox 360 S console. Learn how to remove the hard drive.

3. Add your primary storage device, for example, the hard drive.

4. Turn on the console

5. Try updating the console again.

 

ok im trying to update my games and i keep getting a status code 3f4a-0000-d080-0200-8007-045d

Here is the suggestion from support for error code xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-8007-045D

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A storage device (such as a memory unit or hard drive) was not found during the software update. Follow these steps:

1. Turn off your console.

2. Remove all console storage devices, including any USB flash drives,
external hard drives or the internal hard drive on the Xbox 360 console.

3. Add your primary storage device, for example, the hard drive.

4. Turn on the console

5. Try updating the console again.