Help with hard drive

celj

I bought an 80gb hard drive on ebay which turned out to be one of the Chinese ones of course.
It actually works ok but for some games especially the one I'm trying to play,San Andreas it just wont start.

Basically if I format the hard drive on the Xbox itself will it work?
I just ask because it means moving everything off it to do it.
Thanks!

AndywK

No, you need to download the backwards compatibility update. Im too busy too help at this moment, so just google it and that will sort ya

Remember San andreas was a V1 game

celj

AndywK wrote: »

No, you need to download the backwards compatibility update. Im too busy too help at this moment, so just google it and that will sort ya

Remember San andreas was a V1 game

I should have mentioned,San Andreas has been downloaded from Xbox live so I would have the update surely?

AndywK

Better off getting the backwards comp DL jjust in case. Happens a lot

celj

I've had a look and it says I should automatically have gotten that download.
Lost as to what to do.Can't find anything on Live.

AndywK

Or just download the comp and see if that works.......
Also try clear the cache...risk formatting on your own.
If its an official HDD then call MS, if not then you b****ed

zero19

Xbox original games will not work with chinese HDDs, speaking from experience here. The official HDD has a partition or something to run original xbox games that were downloaded or on disc.

I think there's a way to add the required partition to a chinese HDD but i've no clue about that stuff, someone on here mentioned it before.

Reamer Fanny

zero19 wrote: »

Xbox original games will not work with chinese HDDs, speaking from experience here. The official HDD has a partition or something to run original xbox games that were downloaded or on disc.

I think there's a way to add the required partition to a chinese HDD but i've no clue about that stuff, someone on here mentioned it before.

This is true there is a compatibility folder on partition 2 of the hdd, I can extract mine and you can copy it to yours if it's any help, you need an adapter to connect your Xbox hdd to your pc though

celj

justryan wrote: »

This is true there is a compatibility folder on partition 2 of the hdd, I can extract mine and you can copy it to yours if it's any help, you need an adapter to connect your Xbox hdd to your pc though

Thanks a lot!PM sent to you.

celj

Hi justryan,did you get PM?

celj

Can anyone send me this compatibility folder on partition 2??
Its wrecking my head and I want to get it sorted!

Reamer Fanny

PM sent