How come my new xbox doesn't read my old hard drive?
all right, I recently bought a broken xbox off eBay that had the rrod. (red ring of death) Im trying to make a profit by fixing it if you’re wondering. Well, it had the 2 lights, so I put on some thermal paste, and it changed to 3. I kept working my magic on it and finally it was up and running. Now there’s another problem. I currently have an xbox 360 elite that is/ was in working condition. I took out that hard drive (120GB) and put it into the other xbox. I also moved my antenna over too so I could access live when I was testing it. It turns on and everythings going good untill the dashboard is supposed to come up. Instead, this update thing comes up and asks me if I want to download a security update. I say yes, but it says I’m not connected to live. It then says to check my connection in network settings and try again. I do it and I have 4/5 bars. It asks me if I want to update it again, and if I decline, I’ll be signed out of xbox live. I say yes again, and it starts updating. About 30 seconds later, it says I can’t download it and to contact M$ for support. I find out it is the dashboard layout update, and I’m wondering why it’s not reading my hard drive. (I already have the dashboard update) I keep reading on xbox.com and it says to try and download and extract stuff onto a cd and put that into it, and it should update. It didn’t. I then tried to have a direct Internet connection, and that doesn’t do much better. Also, if I decline the update and try to play a game, it asks for the update again and brings me to the dShboard.(a thing to note is that when I try to play a game without my hard drive in, it works) I don’t know if it’s because it’s the very first generation of the 360 that doesn’t work with the update or because it doesn’t synchronize. I hope I didn’t write too much and make it confusing. any help is accepted. Thanks in advance! 
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Maybe it’s too old. New stuff can’t read old stuff so it’s like the opposite.
I heard Microsoft’s warranty support service doesn’t take kindly to freely bouncing hard drives.
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I had the same problem last week, just try to clean connections. I mean places where xbox should be pluged. On youtube there’s a video somewhere.
cleaning the connections might fix the issue and it will read the hd and its games once again