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CDiablo on 19 August 2009

You should format your HDD and gove it a go from there.



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Garnett on 19 August 2009

sabby if i had nothing on my 120 gig it would say 90 gigs,so if i installed 60 gigs it would tell me 30 gigs left,it wouldnt say 30 gigs left and 20 gigs you cant use.



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twesterm on 19 August 2009

This sounds like either a user error or something wrong with your map packs. Did you accidentally delete the one that's not working?

Also, every system reserves some hard drive space but the 360 should only reserve less than 10 gigs and it shouldn't even be anywhere near that.

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Looks like it reserves about 7 gigs which sounds about right I think.



 

twesterm on 19 August 2009
Garnett said:

sabby if i had nothing on my 120 gig it would say 90 gigs,so if i installed 60 gigs it would tell me 30 gigs left,it wouldnt say 30 gigs left and 20 gigs you cant use.

Try clearing the cache and see what happens.

The 360 doesn't reserve 30 gigs of space so you probably have other stuff installed.  When it says you have nothing installed, are you just looking at the games tab?  Do you have movies/music/themes/pictures or whatever else installed or stored?



 

JaggedSac on 19 August 2009

Yeah, it doesn't make any sense for it to reserve 30gb of space.



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Nightwish224 on 19 August 2009

I have an Xbox 360 Elite. I want more storage. I install my games, that's why I want more storage. I don't like to delete, and then reinstall games suddenly. Many a time I randomly play games that I wish I didn't delete off my HD.



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AkibaFan on 19 August 2009

my xbox 360 never does this



twesterm on 19 August 2009
Nightwish224 said:
I have an Xbox 360 Elite. I want more storage. I install my games, that's why I want more storage. I don't like to delete, and then reinstall games suddenly. Many a time I randomly play games that I wish I didn't delete off my HD.

Not that it has anything to do with the thread but you don't have to install a game to play it.

Everything, no matter how large, that is limited has that problem where you have to prioritize what you want stored on it and what you will have to switch around or just not have installed.



 

JOhnyBravoos on 19 August 2009

Well it doesn't "reserve", well maybe it does but what I'm trying to explain is the 1000 vs 1024 bits battle.

So your 120GB HDD is more like 112GiB(This is before inserting it to your Xbox where it does(n't) reserve some of the HDD)



gergroy on 19 August 2009
JOhnyBravoos said:

Well it doesn't "reserve", well maybe it does but what I'm trying to explain is the 1000 vs 1024 bits battle.

So your 120GB HDD is more like 112GiB(This is before inserting it to your Xbox where it does(n't) reserve some of the HDD)


lol, they wouldn't use the term 120 GB if it didn't have that much space.  The 360 reserves about 7 gigs like Twestern said for the os and other system functions.  However, if you clear all the information off the drive, even the os, it would be a full 120 gigs.