Re: 8007045D

I have the problem but not the answer... Its a good job xbox live is free...no , wait, why am I paying for this s**t?

Hey guys, sorry to hear about this issue! Josh, have you checked settings > system > storage > your device > gamer profiles to see if there is a corrupted or incomplete profile that you can delete there? If so, try deleting that, and give downloading another go. :-)

Hey guys, Right then, after a long and frustrating evening I have a 6 step fix! you just need a usb stick and some patience.

step 1. go into your hard drive and manually check to make sure all the save files have an owner; anything that says unknown profile, delete.

step 2. transfer all your data to the usb stick; some things wont move because you need to sign in to a profile, you can recover the tag to the usb and log in then move it. please note; its not worth worrying about DLC content...anything you have purchased/had a free code for, will be retrievable from the 'download history' menu in your gamertag profile when you recover it.

step 3. import your gamertag to the usb stick (it will work even though you cant download it to the hdd), look in your profile menu and use the 'transfer licences' function. you can only do this a couple times per year but hey, its not like xbox's die every day! ;-p

step 4. clear cache then format your hdd... please make sure you've transferred everything important to the usb stick and then taken the stick OUT!!

step 5. BEFORE you transfer anything back; recover the problem gamertag (any other tags will be imported from the usb when you do the save files and other content) as before, you may have to sign in to any relevant profiles in order to move some stuff.

step 6. ENJOY having everything back in its place... hello skyrim, I've missed you!

Good luck! I know its a pain in the proverbial but I did this by trial and error last night and have lost nothing except one fifa12 career save file because I wasnt paying attention when i transferred everything back to the hdd in step 5 (it wasn't from my profile and i didnt sign in and move it). hope it goes well :-)

I'm having the same problem. I read what turxofwar said but all of my game saves that i had on my profile say Unknown Profile. Am I really going to have to delete all my game saves. I put alot of time into those and i sure as hell don't feel like doing it over because of this fukn update.

If it even is the update. you guys said this back in Jan. The update was yesterday. Hopefully theres another way to fix it though because I dont even have a flash drive. I'd rather not have to buy one and I really don't wont to lose all of my game saves. I've had xbox live for about 4 years so I have alot of games saves.....

Hey there Tesus! I understand that you are having some issues downloading your profile. I certainly understand your aversion to deleting your game saves, so I won't ask you to do that right away. The steps that I would suggest do recommend downloading directly to a USB device though, with the hard drive disconnected. Is there any way you can borrow one for this purpose, or perhaps try downloading on a friend's console who has a USB device. Please let me know, thanks!

can i have some help with this issue please because i can still see my friends sign in yet i cant see my gamer profile in my storage? and am not sure how you transfer files

Hey Pro, I'm sorry, but you'll need to create your own thread for official support, please. :-)

okay so called the xbox hotline, and as usual they took a full 2 hours, and i had to call back( thx xbl..). they told me to go to my storage and press y to transfer content, but my xbox doesn trecognize my USB yes i have tried 6 USB's and googled it. absolutely nothing i try is working, i called back and all they said was "buy a new HDD" is this true or can you help me out??

Hey there Divine - unfortunately this error code indicates an issue with your storage device, as you've discovered. Have you tried your USB drives in another console? We'd be interested to see if the profile can be downloaded without the hard drive installed, which would require a USB Flash Drive that is configured as an Xbox 360 Storage Device.

Try going to account.live.com also to see if account is blocked

I just went in and deleted my profile and re-downloaded it. Kept the games on there but just deleted the profile> the profile had become corrupted and I had had the same 8007045D code.

i have this problem as well but my problem is that it won't show anything in the memory so i can't use any of the profiles/saved games i have. Also it won't allow any importation of information into it i think my memory unit has died but i'm not quite sure. And if so can i save it? HELP PLEASE!