XBOX360 ELITE unable to read hard drive and/or download update.

CoPpEr X hEaD · Feb 20, 2015

Upon start up, XBOX 360 logo screen lags longer than normal. Then "Update Required" screen appears and I am prompted to download update to connect to xbox live. System update reads " You do not have enough storage space to take this update, please connect
an xbox 360 storage device with at least 190 MB of free space". At which point I show no hard drive space and all of my profiles are gone. I cannot log in to xbox. Assuming all of my space is gone (120 gig drive), would all of my profiles disappear? or
has the drive crashed? Thanks!

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OffMocha37 · Feb 20, 2015

After transfering with Hard Drive transfer cable from old drive to new xbox 360 slim with not load new games

I transfered from old xbox360 hard drive to new xbox360slim hard drive by xbox360 hard drive transfer cable. everything went ok.

then tried to load a new game opened sealed box xbox360 shows reading then open tray. Tried a another brand new game same thing.

Rehooked up drives shows old drive empty buy the content does not show on new xbox360 slim screen.

and the games that were already on new xbox360slim will load game from disc and play.

reads game disc and plays. But will not read new games. Please Help.

StonColKILLA · Feb 20, 2015

HD Compatability

Does the Hard drive Memory from the old 360 elite work on the new style xbox360?

MR KILL J0Y 911 · Feb 21, 2015

hmmm have you tryed to contact chat support maybe see what they say..... id think they recommend a reformatting of the harddrive but i do not know id ask chat support

MR KILL J0Y 911

hmmm have you tryed to contact chat support maybe see what they say..... id think they recommend a reformatting of the harddrive but i do not know id ask chat support

HomegrownSilky

It could be that the hard drive is failing. The Xbox is unable to read the drive, thinks that it needs an update but the update will fail because the drive itself is failing. Your 360 might be dead basically.

KrizanLovich

as per the other comments about the use of the external hard drive for the 360 I am in the update preview program which allows additional External hard drives to be used.I purchased the same Seagate 2tb external hard drive as per my xboxone but when I apply
the format on the xbox360 as per the instructions it replies with unable to format. Would like to know what external hard drives are compatible? I no the hard drive works as tried it on the xboxone after it would not format for the 360

thanks

NZ Racer

Windows10XboxOne

Forgot to mention you could buy a transfer cable to move all your files from the elite hard drive to your new slim as an alternative.

HassanB

Hi,

If a hard drive is becoming unformatted again and again it likely leads to a problem with the hard drive itself, not the update, honestly.

It's likely that your specific hard drive has a problem reading/writing at the same time, and when something like that happens (an update) that requires both downloading -> reading -> writing (to the hard drive), it's likely that it's glitching or crashing
in some instance.

I'd suggest changing your hard drive out if you're experiencing this each and every time.

XBOX360 ELITE unable to read hard drive and/or download update.