How to "clean" a XBox360 HD and go to Live?

[7th]

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[tippertime]

to clear the HD cache:

To perform the function, access 'memory' in the system blade, and then highlight the hard drive. Now press: Y, X, X, LB, RB, X, X. The following message should appear: "Do you want to perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices?"

[7th]

to clear the HD cache:

To perform the function, access 'memory' in the system blade, and then highlight the hard drive. Now press: Y, X, X, LB, RB, X, X. The following message should appear: "Do you want to perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices?"

I don't think this is actually going to clear the xbox HD. As far as I know, it just deletes the game updates or I'm wrong?

Saves, for example, are kept so I guess other infos about which games you've played so far seems to be kept there.

[ilogical]

anybody tried this? can anybody post a conclusion? i really want to play online

[ichigo]

You do not need to clear the hard drive in order to play on live. I have an elite and it's modded as well. You can go on live as long as you play the original games and not burnt ones. You will not get banned if you do this. BUT... if you play burnt games, make sure they are fully stealth patched before you burn them or microsoft may catch you. The best option is to NOT play burnt games on live and play original games only on it. That way you will not get banned off live and microsoft will never find out anything.

[h1pp0]

You do not need to clear the hard drive in order to play on live. I have an elite and it's modded as well. You can go on live as long as you play the original games and not burnt ones. You will not get banned if you do this. BUT... if you play burnt games, make sure they are fully stealth patched before you burn them or microsoft may catch you. The best option is to NOT play burnt games on live and play original games only on it. That way you will not get banned off live and microsoft will never find out anything.

Are you using a modchip or did you reflash your drive? I was thinking of modding my xbox but I want an off switch that will turn it off while I play on LIVE and wanted to know if I had to get a modchip or if I can just get away with updating the firmware.

[ichigo]

I have mine flashed. I don't have a mod chip. So basically the drive is flashed and there is no on off switch, its always on but, you can still go on live as long as you play the original games and not the burnt ones. Some people also go on live with burnt games but those games must be properly patched or you may get caught on live! The only way to not get caught with a flashed 360 is to use original games on live only.

[saulin]

I have my 360 modded and I have played burnt games online and I'm still not banned. make sure all your games are stealth. Checked with abgx 360. Even if you play games offline only. Your 360 keeps record of all games played and once you go online all that info is uploaded to your profile online. So if you play games that are not fully stealth'd offline and play only original games online you are still going to get banned.

To wipe all the info on your HDD. Simply restore all settings to defaults and wipe all saved games and achievements. I believe there is an option to do this.. Then go online when you have not record of any games played. From here on make sure all your games are 100% stealth'd. That is if you have not gone online yet.

[ichigo]

Are you sure you have to clean out your xbox saves and achievements, because I didn't do that and I can still go on live using my original games. I've played enough games that aren't patched but I just don't play them online. I'm not banned yet. So I don't know if the whole clearing your hard drive thing is really necessary, but yea you might want to take precautions so that you don't get banned for sure.

[saulin]

Well check your online account at www.xbox.com

Does it show all the games you played? As far as I know it does. Even if you didn't play those games online. It simply keeps track of everything you play and uploads that info to your profile online. Unless you used 2 different accounts. One for offline play and 1 for online play. I believe his might work. Still I would not play a game that is not patched properly at all, even offline if I plan to play some games online.

The ban hammer will come down on you if you played not properly patched games and they show on your profile right now. Maybe not today or even in a month from now but you could already be flagged.