Apologies in advance for the length. Thank you much if you read all the way through and can think of a possible solution!
Alright, so I did an Escapist search and couldn't find anything related to my current situation, and global search engine inquiries aren't getting me anywhere. So, in a last-ditch effort to solve my issue, I present it here for my fellow Escapists.
I have two gamertags of my own on my current 360, and my boyfriend's is there as well. My old gamertag and his own were both on our old 360, a Core which I'd purchased the year the 360 first came out (2005, I believe) and bought a 120gb hard drive for. We've had no problems with DLC in the past, save for the easy fixes - Remove the hard drive for longer than a certain amount of time, stuff auto-erases for some inexplicable reason, but only certain files. No big deal, we just worked around it.
Several months ago, my boyfriend purchased the 250gb Slim. We transferred everything from the Core to the Slim using an external hard drive without any issues, and everything worked just fine. I'd purchased a large amount of DLC on my old gamertag, but most of it was for games that I hadn't played in quite some time. I recently acquired Red Dead Redemption and purchased the Undead Nightmare pack, which worked flawlessly. RDR was the only game I'd played on my new gamertag that was never played on my old one, and the UN pack for it was one of only two DLC items I purchased specifically on my new gamertag. Up until this point, DLC worked just fine between all three gamertags - Oblivion expansions, Guitar Hero tracks, etc.
Upon attempting to play Mass Effect on my new gamertag, I was given the lovely message that all of my extra content was corrupted and needed to be re-downloaded. Not a problem, I've seen it before. So I go into the memory and remove all of the DLC, turn the Slim off for a while, then come back a bit later and re-download everything. Start up Mass Effect... Same message. So I put Mass Effect 2 in. What a surprise! The corruption alert again.
Somehow, all of the DLC on the Slim's drive has been corrupted (for all gamertags), and no amount of deletion and re-download seems to fix it. I've tried just about everything I can think of with this to try and solve it, but nothing thus far has worked.
Suggestions, Escapists? Hopefully nobody mentions licensing... Most of my DLC was purchased on my old gamertag, and the email attached to it was hacked quite some time ago, so I no longer have access and thus cannot renew the licensing for that particular gamertag...
(Oh, and for the record, the 360 is always online.)
Alright, so I did an Escapist search and couldn't find anything related to my current situation, and global search engine inquiries aren't getting me anywhere. So, in a last-ditch effort to solve my issue, I present it here for my fellow Escapists.
I have two gamertags of my own on my current 360, and my boyfriend's is there as well. My old gamertag and his own were both on our old 360, a Core which I'd purchased the year the 360 first came out (2005, I believe) and bought a 120gb hard drive for. We've had no problems with DLC in the past, save for the easy fixes - Remove the hard drive for longer than a certain amount of time, stuff auto-erases for some inexplicable reason, but only certain files. No big deal, we just worked around it.
Several months ago, my boyfriend purchased the 250gb Slim. We transferred everything from the Core to the Slim using an external hard drive without any issues, and everything worked just fine. I'd purchased a large amount of DLC on my old gamertag, but most of it was for games that I hadn't played in quite some time. I recently acquired Red Dead Redemption and purchased the Undead Nightmare pack, which worked flawlessly. RDR was the only game I'd played on my new gamertag that was never played on my old one, and the UN pack for it was one of only two DLC items I purchased specifically on my new gamertag. Up until this point, DLC worked just fine between all three gamertags - Oblivion expansions, Guitar Hero tracks, etc.
Upon attempting to play Mass Effect on my new gamertag, I was given the lovely message that all of my extra content was corrupted and needed to be re-downloaded. Not a problem, I've seen it before. So I go into the memory and remove all of the DLC, turn the Slim off for a while, then come back a bit later and re-download everything. Start up Mass Effect... Same message. So I put Mass Effect 2 in. What a surprise! The corruption alert again.
Somehow, all of the DLC on the Slim's drive has been corrupted (for all gamertags), and no amount of deletion and re-download seems to fix it. I've tried just about everything I can think of with this to try and solve it, but nothing thus far has worked.
Suggestions, Escapists? Hopefully nobody mentions licensing... Most of my DLC was purchased on my old gamertag, and the email attached to it was hacked quite some time ago, so I no longer have access and thus cannot renew the licensing for that particular gamertag...
(Oh, and for the record, the 360 is always online.)
(sorry, just had to get it out of the way)
