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jmmitche

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Hdd Not Working
« on: December 29, 2006, 07:31:00 PM »

Hey guys, i am having a little trouble with my 360, when the hdd is hooked up the 360 hangs at the logo for 5-10 minutes then boots up but the hdd does not appear.  When the hdd is not connected it boots up fine.  It is a premium console and the hdd is the one that came with it.  Any clue as to what is going on here?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks
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xboxcave

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« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2006, 07:48:00 PM »

have you been inside your 360 ?

i forgot to connect the SATA cable back up and thats what mine did.
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jmmitche

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« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2006, 08:15:00 PM »

Yes i have, but i checked all of the connections, everything seems fine.
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xboxcave

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« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2006, 09:06:00 PM »

go back in and doubble check that when you were putting the cables back in the sata cables were pushed in firmly
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jmmitche

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« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2006, 10:56:00 PM »

the sata cable goes to the dvd drive and shouldnt have any effect on the hdd connection, but they are all connected as firmly as possible.
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Flaming Tornado

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« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2006, 02:51:00 AM »

Does your HDD power up?

Not sure you can find out or anything, but listen to it, (mines had activity LED's etc).

I had a similar problem, turned out the power was whack.
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jmmitche

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« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2006, 03:45:00 PM »

yeah i can feel it spinning but the 360 isnt recognizing it, i am gonna hook it to my pc and rebuild it
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jmmitche

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« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2006, 04:48:00 PM »

i tried hooking my 360 hdd to my pc via a pci to sata card (the same one i used to flash my dvd drive)..the pc detects it fine but once i open xplorer360 and search for the drive my computer starts freezing for about 30 seconds, unfreezing for 2-3 seconds, then freezing again.  I let it set for about an hour and it kept doing this, any idea on how to stop it from freezing like that?
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OriginalCompGeek

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« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2006, 09:34:00 PM »

Might be a defective hdd, certainly sounds shaky.
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mygameswirelesscom

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« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2006, 11:04:00 PM »

hey i think you HD is no good !!
HD is very very week on inpack!!
if you drop your HD from 1feet it could damage!!
so i think you need a new one!!
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jmmitche

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« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2006, 07:17:00 PM »

well sorry wal-mart. you are about to have a defective drive returned to you.

Thank for the help everyone!
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