Xbox slim 360 4gb corrupted

[Maiken]

I've been searching the forum and couldn't find what fits my issue (and I hope this is the write place to post this).

I have a Xbox 360 slim where the 4gb drive reads 19mb of free space left. When you look at what's stored it shows zero under everything. I can't format, clear cache or reset back to factory.

I open the box cause one post said to remove the drive but there is no drive under cd drive.

Is there a way to wipe the drive or turn it off and use an external hard drive. Because right now I can't play anything cause the system wants to update and there's not enough space.

I hope this all makes sense, thanks in advance.

 

[Haaris]

use usb to update it

 

[Maiken]

Tried that, it gives a long number error. I googled the number and it means there's not enough space on the drive to do the update.

 

[artyk82]

the all what you need is a flash drive above 4gb, install it and make it works in your xbox,
i think that your xbox was 250gb, and then hdd was deleted, or maybe 4gb was corrupted, and sonly way is to install the valid hdd
and update will stand on it(sorry for my english))))

 

[Maiken]

No worries about the English I understand. The problem is I've already tried that and I've got a flash drive for 32 gig for the 250 gig hard drive but it still won't update, it's trying to use the 4gb.

 

[morinzo]

did you format half of the usb stick using the xbox 360? that way you have 16gb fatx storage & 16gb fat32 .

If you didnt format it with the xbox then thats why it wont update with usb..

 

[Maiken]

Yes, the flash drive and drive are fat32.

 

[Maiken]

I thought I would add some images to get the idea.

 

[morinzo]

What motherboard is your console? i have some spare trinity 4gb imu's & I could send you one free to replace the old one as long as you cover shipping.

do you know how to check what motherboard is in it..

 

[jsinger47]

Looks like a toasted Corona 4gb. Pretty common. I've been fixing a lot of these recently by converting them to 16mb consoles.

 

[gavin_darkglide]

Looks like a toasted Corona 4gb. Pretty common. I've been fixing a lot of these recently by converting them to 16mb consoles.

Which is one of the many reasons I wont buy a 4gb carona, Also because you cant install a demon.

To the op, have you tried dumping the nand, and formating with j-runner. You may be able to format the chip, and write a new stock nand back to it, and not have to convert it to a 16MB console. If you dont have the equipment, and are in the US, I would send Jsinger a PM, and see if he can sort this out.

 

[Maiken]

@morinzo

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I have a carona motherboard, after searching on how to tell which motherboard I have. I have no soldering skill so no idea what I would do with an imu.

@gavin_darkglide

I have no idea how to even start doing something like that, I have been reading a lot of posts trying to figure this out.

I can't believe that there's no way to just reset this thing, or just wipe out whatever the problem is.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[nofeloniesyet]

@morinzo

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I have a carona motherboard, after searching on how to tell which motherboard I have. I have no soldering skill so no idea what I would do with an imu.

@gavin_darkglide

I have no idea how to even start doing something like that, I have been reading a lot of posts trying to figure this out.

I can't believe that there's no way to just reset this thing, or just wipe out whatever the problem is.

Thanks for all the help.

as jsinger said the 4gb memory is corrupted,common prob with coronas,only way round it is to convert it to 16 mb as jsinger said,and that is a very skilled job there,you have to remove the 4gb bga nand and solder a 16mb tsop to it,and remove and move around and add some resistors.if in usa id get jsinger to do this for you.

 

[jsinger47]

@morinzo

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I have a carona motherboard, after searching on how to tell which motherboard I have. I have no soldering skill so no idea what I would do with an imu.

@gavin_darkglide

I have no idea how to even start doing something like that, I have been reading a lot of posts trying to figure this out.

I can't believe that there's no way to just reset this thing, or just wipe out whatever the problem is.

Thanks for all the help.

The problem is that the component that "controls" the memory has died. Since it is broken, "wiping or resetting" isn't really an option.

 

[gavin_darkglide]

The problem is that the component that "controls" the memory has died. Since it is broken, "wiping or resetting" isn't really an option.

Now that I did not know, I have had similar problems with flash drives, which is essentially what the 4GB MU is, hence why I said try formating the nand with J-Runner, and rewriting a new stock nand to the chip.

 

[nofeloniesyet]

Now that I did not know, I have had similar problems with flash drives, which is essentially what the 4GB MU is, hence why I said try formating the nand with J-Runner, and rewriting a new stock nand to the chip.

yea its the actual chip controller that dies,not the nand,but it leaves it to where you virtually cannot change anything on the nand.thats why we have to convert,and it is xbox live safe afterwards,really dont think they distinguish a diff in 250 gb consoles and 4gb,least no one i ever had to do this for has had any issues on live.