Xbox will not read my hard drive?

Havokk · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:09 pm

I turn on my xbox and it says zero profiles found I have the xbox slim with the 250 upgrade and under the area that says storage devices it says like 3 gig avalible?
pleasee tell me I can fix this and how!

Link · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:49 pm

Unplug and replug your x-box HD, otherwise it might be dead.

Havokk · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:19 pm

I ended up having to reformat my harddrive its working now but I lost all my saved games still have my profile and I had to redownload my store items again lost soo many hours of game play! how can I make sure this wont happen again

Link · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:15 pm

Beats me. make sure you're using a legit microsoft HDD and make sure you're careful when plugging and unplugging it from the console.

Swordfish00830 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:16 pm

Havokk wrote:

I ended up having to reformat my harddrive its working now but I lost all my saved games still have my profile and I had to redownload my store items again lost soo many hours of game play! how can I make sure this wont happen again

Invest in a memory stick and put all your save data on that. Saves from games usually don't take up that much space so you won't need a big memory stick. I have all my save data on a 4 gig memory stick and since I don't have a big HD just a 20 gig. The memory on that HD goes to DLC and XBLA games.

Danimal Collective · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:43 pm

Havokk wrote:

how can I make sure this wont happen again

Don't buy an Xbox :mah:

Link · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:03 pm

Swordfish00830 wrote:

you won't need a big memory stick

I heard girls like guys with big memory sticks...

Danimal Collective · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:07 pm

Link wrote:

Swordfish00830 wrote:

you won't need a big memory stick

I heard girls like guys with big memory sticks...

It's the width that counts, not the MBs.

Crono · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:22 pm

If you have the slim, it uses a standard 2.5" SATA HDD, you can put it into any computer and back the data up.

Havokk · **Posted:** Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:46 pm

Crono wrote:

If you have the slim, it uses a standard 2.5" SATA HDD, you can put it into any computer and back the data up.

WHAT?!?!

Crono · **Posted:** Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:09 pm

Yep. Not sure if there's any weird filesystem issues, though. But physically it's a SATA 2.5" HDD.

I would actually recommend doing HDD backups with a Linux system, even if it's just a live disc, they just don't try to mess with the data and partitions like Windows does. Also the partition software is free.

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