I just deleted a game (not the memory) from my hard drive so that I could play it on a friend's 360. It usually said (before I deleted it) that I needed to download an update so that I could play the game, which isn't true because it never did that on my 360 where it was downloaded. So like I said, I deleted it from my hard drive to see if it would just play like a normal disc on his 360... And it did the same thing... Did I just make it so that I can't play the game with my data again?

I don't really understand your post. Sorry. 
 
I read it twice and just can't get what you're trying to say. 
 
Even though I can't really understand it too well, why not just install the update? Or is there a reason you can't do that?

I don't understand what you're trying to say.
 
You deleted it from your HD so you could play it at a friend's house?
 
wut

Yeah I figured that would happen... Um.. My game was installed on my hard drive + 360. It wasn't installed on my friend's 360+hard drive. When I tried playing it at his house, it would say that it couldn't load my file (I brought my hard drive to play on his 360). So I went home and deleted it off of my hard drive because I was going over is house the next day. I did that so that maybe it wouldn't need to be on my 360 to play, and that it could play as a normal disc (not off my hard drive). So that didn't work. I even tried installing it on his 360 + my hard drive and it said the same thing... I think I can't play my file again which sucks, unless someone knows how to fix it.  
 
If anyone else needs help understanding just post on this.. I would really appreciate the help.

If you're asking about the save data deleting the game from your hard-drive won't delete the save data. It should still all be there.

Don't have a 360. Is "memory" referring to internal memory? Does it even have internal memory? Lol.

"Don't have a 360. Is "memory" referring to internal memory? Does it even have internal memory? Lol. "

It's got a big hard-drive on the top (Kinda like a memory card if you get what I mean). But you might be right.. It might have some sort of internal memory! Oh no! I'm freakin' screwed...

Wait so why can't you play the game?

when I try to load my file up, it says: Cannot load because you need to download the update for this game. The thing is... It doesn't need an update..

Ok I read that if you connect to xbox live it should fix things. Are you not connected online?

Not with the account that I was using.. Can I upgrade to silver using that account? And thanks a lot dude, you're really saving me here.

I'm so lost here.

Why don't you just download the game to your harddrive again...

Just update the damn game for God's sake. If it says it needs an update it means it needs an update. It simply won't play if you don't update unless you're playing offline.

Well it would be the same as downloading it to someone else's 360, its not gonna work if I re-installed it to mine.

Cool. Non-problem solved, I guess.

well, its a little scary thinking you wasted however many hours of your life. So I'd say its a bit of a problem.

I'm still not 100% clear on the situation, but I'm thinking that maybe once you save your data under a patched version of the game that the data might no longer load under an unpatched version of the game...just update the game.

" well, its a little scary thinking you wasted however many hours of your life. So I'd say its a bit of a problem. "

This topic still confuses me, I gotta say.

Thanks for the reassurance, no one really seemed to understand (no offense)

" Thanks for the reassurance, no one really seemed to understand (no offense) "

yeah... I know, I'm just saying thanks. 

wow, I'm exhausted

Heh.. Trust me, it's a lot harder to explain than it might seem..

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