Got onto my 360 today - it took an abnormal amount of time to load, was stuck on the logo screen for a while. Loaded up after a while and signed me in.
Apart from my issues connecting to Live (that has to do with me upgrading to Windows 8 and having to reset my bridged connections) - my hard drive now displays as “Unformatted device”. I cannot alter it in any way shape or form without formatting it completely, which wipes it clean of all data.
I’ve researched this a little bit, and I’m hoping I do not have to do the inevitable. If anyone has encountered this problem or knows anything about it, please do assist! And yes I have unplugged it while off and on and reconnected; no difference.
I can still sign on and use my profile, in fact I am playing Reach online right now; however, I cannot view or do anything involving my hard drive. I cannot even choose it as a load device for games without having to format it first. I am reluctant to do this because I would rather not lose the countless hours of game data embedded within. This is a long shot; most of this community has no idea about hardware specs, but figured I would ask. Any intelligent help is appreciated!
Is it a slim hard drive? The same happened to me. It shown as unformatted then worked but shown everything as corrupted and then wouldn’t read/write anything.
It does not effect the hard drive since it is not being recognized as a Microsoft product.
Yes; yes I have tried all of those. No success.
Nope, original 360, same HDD I’ve had since launch in '05. Reach is working fine; however, Forza 4 is limited. All data installed to HDD by disc two and all DLC is now unreadable.
Try backing everything up with Party Buffalo and formatting is all I can suggest. Eaton may be of assistance too. I usually nag ask him when something hard drive related ****s up as he has a lot of knowledge about them.
Your heart is in the right place . There may be people who are still experiencing this issue. Though previous poster is right, you might want to check post dates. They frown on resurrecting old posts on here.