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RPG install can take abit over 12gb.
u you know it helps ;)-



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gergroy said:
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 GiB 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.

Haha but they do! I'm not being biest at all but what HDD companies displays as the HDD capacity is not what you think your getting, for example 120GB=/=120GiB. Storage manufactures trick you into thinking that your getting more bang for your bucks, 111.75GiB vs 120GB... What are they going to showcase? Of course it's the 120GB as it's larger and it's a nicer and rounder number to use. Your device will read in 1024 (Because it uses binary, - 1,2,4,8,16...1024) but the storage companies use 1000, so on your screen it will view 111.75 and not 120.

But it's actually reasonable aswell as confusing to some as they are used with the data displayed by their operating system to display in GB while it's actually GiB! I've probably worded this like hell but if you don't believe me just do some research so you can see for yourself.

 

With your Internet Service Provider, do they display your up/download speed in Mbps or MBps? It's Mbps! It's the larger number, 8 times larger in fact, so when you download and only see say 1MB/s on your download bar where some customers think that they're actually getting 8MB/s and not 8Mb/s as they don't know the difference between bits and bytes without thinking that the capital B would make such a difference.



Johnny is right on this one.



Guys...there is NOTHING wrong with your harddrive and you don't have to delete any info on it.

There is an issue with the new Map packs and COD:WAW that causes this. Myself and a few friends have this issue, but there is a simple solution.

 

When it says that you don't have a Map Pack or you can't select a Map because it greyed out, simply re-download the map pack. This CAN be done while in the game...so no need to leave a party.

Also, You technically won't be re-downloading it as it WILL find it on your Harddrive and within 2 or 3 seconds it will complete.



Hmm... if I understand the original question correctly, my first guess would be an installation error on Map Pack 1. Since something went wrong, it didn't think it was installed, thus giving you an error that it couldn't find it. Second guess would be a generic hiccup that didn't properly link the game to the maps, causing it to be on the system, but not know where to look for it. The third option is the ugly one, and that would be a bad sector on the drive. Rather than returning a load error, it may have just returned a not present error. But it sounds like you have it fixed for now.



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Im not saying it reserved 30 gigs of space i just used that as a number,its 7 as mentioned.

 

I know it needs to reserve some space,but i had 30 gigs left,30 gigs thats WITH reserved space,why cant i use those 30 gigs? When i try to install a game or something it wont work.

 

 



You should be able to use those ~30gbs or so left. I've put quite a lot of stuff on my Elite 120gb hd and I'm down to like 12gb of free space left.




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