Cant play any original xbox games, please help

what games are you trying to play? go to xbox.com to check what games work in backward compatibility. if your game is there, then i dont know what the problem is.

You have to connect to Xbox live, or download stuff from the xbox website, burn it onto a disc and then put that disc into your 360.karriston

yeah the sofware for backward compatibility doesnt come in your harddrive, you need to install it manually in one of the two ways he said.

Did you download it from live or did u burn it on a cd?

Did you restart the xbox after installing it? (even though as far as i remember it should restart automatically)

Other than that i dont know what to say, i installed it long time ago and it worked just like that.

i have exactly the same problem, i have an xbox360 arcade a 120gb hard drive, i have downloaded the bc update with no avail. it says it has updated but i dont see it when i look at the contents of the hard drive, unless its hidden....??

when iinsert an xbox origional it just ass me to re-download the game "game error: game cannot start"

i know that the arcade does play xbox originals so whats the problem?

seems impossible to find a solution this anywhere online

I have the exact same problem. If I swap my 20gb hard drive back in I can play, but as soon as I have my 120gb hard drive in, no original games work (whether by disc or download). If it's a disc I get "Error disc cannot be played. It may be dirty or damaged" and if it is a download "Error, try downloading the game again". The error is not the disc or the download, it's definately the hard drive. I have formatted the hard drive with my console (putting in the serial number and all that) and I have downloaded and burnt the latest backwards compatibility patch, but nothing works. I am on Live and it doesn't even ask for the latest Patch to play Halo 2.Firestarter0709

did u download the game demo onto both hard drives or just ur 20? cause that would explain that problem.

I'm having the same problem, and nothing seems to help. I've tried everything!

Same problem here, I got a 120 gig hdd, got it from australia but it must have been coming from china coz when I put it in my xbox 360 the drive name was displayed in chinese characters, I read somewhere on the net that these a$$holes get the cases of the xbox hdd, pull out the hard disc and put a random laptop sorta disc in it, and apparently that doesn't let you play original xbox games coz it lacks data that it's only installed in the original drives.

Original xbox disc (shenmue 2) or downloaded from xbox live (jade empire) both on the compatibility list, don't work.

I tried everything too, formatted, uploaded from the website and updated from a dvd, it says that the update is already installed, I' m gonna try getting a genuine hard drive and use it, I'll see if that works, I'll post the outcome here.

Hope we all find a solution soon.

Aiight Fellas, this thread might be dead by now but I'm still posting in case some poor bast@rd like me buys one of those fake ass hdd and goes crazy tryna find why it don't work as it should.

I just traded mine in today, got a genuine 60 gb microsoft hdd, backwards compatibility worked like a charm, shenmue II and jade empire are both working fine, the drive updated itself from xbox live and everything went smooth.

Bottom line is if you looking to get a hdd from ebay thinking to save some cash, think again, God knows what kind of problems this fake ass third party hard drives will cause you, don't bother with them unless you want a hdd to just store data on, don't expect it to do anything else, if you want my opinion, stick to the original stuff.