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[Ulm01]

Hi ho. I just purchased the Ultimate Edition and am having problems installing the DLC on disc 2. I start the install, and it warns me that I need a hard drive, and bumps me out. I have a 16GB USB drive ('memory device') with 15GB free.

I've seen in the forum that this is a 'known problem', but I find very little information about it, both here and in Google, and no information on the main EA support site.  There have to be more than a few 4G XBox Arcade and Slim systems out there, and have trouble believeing that there's no way to get the DLC to install.

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

[Heather Cline]

I don't think you can install a game on a USB drive. Thing is everything including the DLC's in your package are around 14 gigs worth of data. Also from something I read on the net, your save device has to be formatted to Xbox 360 standards. You can't just slap in any old hard drive into a 360 and call it done, like you can with a PS3. I believe your USB device also needs to be formatted that way too.

[Ulm01]

Thanks for the reply, but the XB360 supports USB thumb drives as memory devices. They're formatted and treated the same as a disk. You can install games on them, download DLC to them, install XBLA games... pretty much everything you can do with a HD. I've played through about 20 games, and 10-15 XBLA games which were happy as anything to use the USB drive. This isn't anything hacky or homebrew. This is officially supported by Microsoft.



You can buy the DLC, download it to a USB thumb drive, and play it with no problems. The issue is that for some reason, the expansion disc give a 'must have a hd' notice, and bombs out. There is no indication on the box or the support page that it has to have an actual 'spinning disc' vs just a memory device with enough room on it. An empty 16GB thumb drive should be plenty of room, I would think.

[Heather Cline]

Well I suggest you email EA or Bioware for direct support for this.

[HamsterExAstris]

This is not the first game with this problem - Halo Reach had something similar. Basically, the problem is that the USB drive appears to games like a big memory card, not like a small hard drive.



I doubt that EA will patch it; your best bet is to either return it, or coopt a friend's 360 with a hard drive; you can install the content to their drive, then move it to your USB stick, and all should work fine.

[Ulm01]

Heather:



Yeah. I contacted support. They were their usual helpful selves. I got an answer that indicated they hadn't read the question, and then nothing on followup.



ATimson:



I think you may be right. I'll have to ask around and see if I know anyone who can help me out.



Thanks for the responses.

[kittenaid]

 Hi there.

Just to let you know the following if you don't already. 
I had this issue too as I got the new 4gb xBox.
What I did was:

Use my flatmates xBox to install the expansion pack to their proper xBox hard drive (not portable etc)
then simply  transfered the content onto my portable hard drive and hey presto! it worked. Just ensure your save data is on the same drive or it wont work

Hope this i some form of help (by the way, we used this thread to figure out what was  initially wrong with mine xx)

[skykam007]

so i have to actually install to someone else's hard drive and copy over? i have an external hard drive installed and it refuses everytime to install to it