Okay so I got some weird hard drive issue here. So basically one day I accidently took my retail hard drive and ran it with a recovery. I thought I had lost all my information as it was now formatted to dev. Today I plugged it in my retail and updated to 9xxx kernel when doing so I was returned to the dashboard. I checked my hard drive status to see if it needed formatting and all my data was there! When I plugged it into dev it had a completly seperate effect, it was as if the drive had been formatted for dev and only my dev related downloads and profiles showed up in neighborhood as if the two states were completely and utterly seperated. I put it back into my retail where I proceeded to download and play reach without problems. I put it back in my dev to see if my new download would show up and nothing was there but the things I recieved from the dev in neighborhood! Acted like a completely seperate hard drive. I also might add I noticed a download that I was getting from PN pending in my retail. I canceled it and moved on with my day. I came back from a walk and I turn on my retail and during sign in it began to freeze. Finding this odd I rebooted a few times untill it got stuck at boot screen. Just now typing this whole thing I let it sit at boot screen and now my xbox just decided to go to the dashboard where it is taking forever to load the blades. Has anyone ever had this happen and what the hell is causing it? EDIT: Just got into my hard drive and it says 5.3GB free and all my data is missing but in xport360 all my data shows up fine. Proceeding to clear cache which is now a frozen prompt screen with no text, my retail is lagy at best if I didnt have the patients people would think it was completly frozen.
A pending PN download coming in from retail Xbox Live? That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. Wouldn't your PNet tag have to be signed into Live in order for that to happen? Since the two networks are totally separate, your retail machine must have been signed into PNet. Did you check the marketplace to see if you were getting PNet stuff?
I didn't worry to much about it but the message did say /!\ Download for other xbox Or something along those lines I just cleared it. Now Im at frozen bar of performing maintenance. All my stuff seems to not show up in retail anymore this is odd at best. Maintance didn't fix still at some seriously weird shit right now still laggy as hell and none of my content is showing up. It was working fine for both consoles and now its behaving badly. So I just checked my music and played a song and got no music it attempted to build song list but didn't now im staring at visualizations with no music playing... Then I just checked and im not signed in and now I cant connect to live testing connection now. Attempted to test connection and just recieved a grey box with no writing and a blackscreen then the greybox closed itselfout with still no writing now im staring at the dash loading screen again. Just asked me if I wanted to send info to Microsoft? Is that new in this dash? Frozen at xbox live. Can't connect to live. W: 0000 - 000B X: 0000 - F001 Y: 00A8 - 2820 Z: 0000 - 0000 ID: 0006 - 0000 Signed in fine with HDD removed. I'll let you guys know what I come up with, I "barely" backed up my content folder with xport360 xplorer wouldn't read it and xport wouldn't backup the whole image. I'm trying to format but its failing. I cleared the dev partition to see if I can format now from retail. Formatted on Dev and says 11.3 gigs free but retail refuses to format still and says it has 5.3 gigs free. Its the same damn HDD... wtf.
What you are describing sounds like a hard drive with two different FAT tables, each located in a different spot and each oblivious to the other. So long as the physical content on the drive doesn't overlap, you're fine, but when both try to use the same space on the drive "Watch out Lucy!" Is your retail unit stock or are you running a JTAG? -hl718
Can you still see it on the retail? Is the Microsoft logo visible in the memory menu on the retail? In the memory menu on the dev? -hl718
It causes major lag, but yes it shows up in the Retail but has 0 items listed or available. I don't remember seeing the Microsoft logo. Dev claims its compeletly empty and retail claims it has content on it, when checked via SATA/USB it doesn't display anything that could be of interest inside the HDD. I may have to do a full format via pc.
I get sign-in problems all the time and noticed that one too. It was added in with the usb update a few weeks ago. It made me laugh - Microsoft *asking* if we want to send information to them. :lol: