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> Problems With 120gb Hd, potential fixes?
xboxdawg
post Jun 14 2012, 06:28 PM
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Ok, so I've got a 120gb MS hard drive that I've had a while. It originally came off my black elite (phat) 2008 xbox. The last month or so I've started having problems loading games every now and then. Gears of War 3 would tell me it couldn't read the disc. Then sometimes updates would fail. I went and cleared the cache and usually that took care of it.

Then I went to play the campaign on Gears and it said it was corrupted. Kind of pissed me off since I was 95% done. So I had to delete it and start over. Yesterday I downloaded the Dirt Showdown demo. When I tried to run it, it said that the disc was dirty or unreadable. WTF its on the hard drive! Anyway I cleared cache, same problem. Deleted and redownloaded. Same problem. I was down to like 12gb on the HD. So I deleted a few things to get it like 14 or 15gb and redownloaded. Now it's working.

My questions:

1. Is my hard drive going bad?

2. Is there a utility to go through and defrag or clean it up? or should I just back everything off to my computer hard drive and format the 360 drive and then load it back on?

3. My other thought was to just buy a new 250gb and copy the contents to it.

Any suggestions?

I suspect that it's just a case of the hard drive being 4yrs old and needing some clean up.
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post Jun 15 2012, 03:04 AM
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Before you do anything else, back up all the data you want to save. Your HDD is likely dying. I know someone who has a failing HDD as well, though it's been holding on by a thread for a while.

If you want, you can pop it out of the case and run a diagnostics test on it. That'll help determine what the problem is.
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post Jun 15 2012, 05:53 PM
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What's the best thing to back it up with? Xplorer360? or is there something better?

Thanks

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post Jun 15 2012, 07:53 PM
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I like Party Buffalo.
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post Jun 15 2012, 08:09 PM
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Ok thanks!

Btw is that available as shareware or do I have to look in the usual places

Update:

I found it, thanks!

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post Jul 3 2012, 03:04 PM
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it's been holding on by a thread for a while.IPB Image
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