Xbox 360How do you error check an XBox 360 hard drive?
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I think that my XBox's 360 hard drive might have an error, and I was surprised to find that (as far as I can tell) the XBox 360 doesn't have a scan-disk type feature. Google shows some people advising that you remove the hard drive from the 360, connect it to your PC, and run a given third party program to check the hard drive. But from what I can see, these programs don't natively understand the XBox 360 hard drive format, and will instead just scan, and potentially fix and errors, the drive at a hardware level. My worry is that since these programs don't natively understand the XBox 360 format, then if such a program finds an error on the hard drive, or perhaps even if the program wrongly sees part of the 360's drive layout as being 'wrong', then the program will alter the data on the hard drive in such a way as to make the drive unreadable to the XBox 360. It's a 500GB hard drive, with many games on, plus save-games and some DLC and indie games, and I really don't want to lose any data, or to be forced to reformat the hard drive and start re-installing everthing again.

BTW, my 360 isn't modded, so I don't think I could run any native XBox 360 homebrew programs on there, even if someone has written a scan-disc style program that runs on the XBox 360.

Thanks for any answers.
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You can just format your HDD to Fat32 after you have scanned it and it will work fine on your xbox 360 again.

What makes you think you have a HDD error anyway?
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Thanks for the reply.

But by formatting the HDD then of course I will lose what is on there, which is what I want to avoid if possible.

As to why I think there might be a problem with the hard drive, I was playing Batman: Arkham Origins on my 360 a few days back, which is installed on the hard drive, and the game went into an endless load (some sort of crash on the loading animation) as part of the map was loading, I reset the 360, re-loaded the game, and again tried to enter that part of the map and the game soft-locked into the endless flight of the Batwing again.

I know that Origins has some unfixed bugs, but I've completed the game more than a dozen times (I love the Batman: Arkham games) and I've never seen this bug before.So I deleted the game and re-installed it, but now it soft-locks on the "checking for DLC" screen. The disc installed without errors, and I still have more than 80GB of hard drive space free, and of course when I first run the game, after installation it downloads and installs the mandatory patch. I've tested other games and they run fine, so I don't know what else the problem could be.
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Try deleting the DLC and re downloading it. Try and look for a FAT32 HDD checker so you shouldn't have to re format the HDD after checking it.
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I did delete and re-download the DLC. But I still get the same "Checking for DLC" soft lock. I will google to find a FAT32 hard drive check program, thanks.
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If you have an external HDD reader you can use it to connect the HDD to a computer and use Crystal DIsk to check the health status and any errors.
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