I can’t install Halo Anniversary onto my harddrive. The disc is brand new with no scratches. I’ve tried installing it no less than 20 times and either it will begin installing reaching between 2 - 40% complete or it won’t install at the very beginning of the installation. I tried deleting demos and other content to make room. I have a first generation Xbox 360 with a 120 gb harddrive. I have also cleared my cache. Any ideas?
I don’t know, keep cleaning the disks with a fiber-cloth in between tries. I had a completely broken fable 2 that took me about two hours to download and several tries.
Try cleaning your disk tray from dust and take your hard drive out, clean any dust and reinsert it.
I had the same problem, however it installed the 4th or 5th time I tried. I think it might have to do with the new disk format that my old 360 is having a hard time reading.
EDIT: Even though my game is installed, when I try to start the game, it gives me an error saying that the disc is unreadable. I have to eject then close the tray again for the game to be able to start.
It may be a sign of a failing laser. Have you tried it with any other games of the new format?
I’ve also had problems with newer games lately installing to the HDD. Deus Ex, GOW3, Arkham City, and now Halo Anniversary. I keep using a can of compressed air to blow out any dust, then retry. Eventually it worked. I have not had an issue reinstalling old games to the HDD, so I think it’s something with the new disc format.
How much space did you say you had free on your HDD?
i had an issue with this for a failing laser a few years back. a cheap possible solution is to buy a disc cleaner that has the brush on it and put that in. my xbox hasn’t had a problem since
well my 360 is only a couple of months old, and it won’t get past 58%, infact it was 7% on the first go and in th game it freezes within 5 mins of playing when the Captain is giving his talk to the cheif, yet the old 60gigger no problems and that was a second hand one I bought over a year ago
first time I’ve had this problem
u dont go on live do you?
I know it’s been a while since I posted this topic and just now replying to it. I still cannot install Halo Anniversary onto my hard drive.
I did found something interesting. I believe it’s the hard drive itself. My brother does have a first generation Xbox 360 as well. I went to this Xbox 360 and attached my hard drive on his console and it still cannot install, doing the same thing. I know for sure, because he installed his copy of Halo Anniversary onto his hard drive on his own Xbox 360 successfully.
I do get on Xbox Live and for the most part it works fine. One annoying thing that it sometimes does is that if I let the game idle at the title screen, it will randomly crash. It hadn’t crashed in a multiplayer game or in campaign…yet.
I have 41.8 GB of memory free on my 120GB Hard drive. I believe I just may have to get a new hard drive. I WOULD try to format the hard drive, but I have so much game saves and DLC games/contents, I don’t want to lose them all/re-download them. I may eventually have to, though.
Thanks for the help everyone! I’ll come back and see if anyone has a solution to this problem. Unfortunately, cleaning the disk, blowing out dusts, and switching Halo discs doesn’t seem to work so far 
If I find a solution, I will let yall know.
Try clearing system cache on your hard drive. That should fix the problem
I cleared my cache twice. That didn’t work 
> I’ve also had problems with newer games lately installing to the HDD. Deus Ex, GOW3, Arkham City, and now Halo Anniversary. I keep using a can of compressed air to blow out any dust, then retry. Eventually it worked. I have not had an issue reinstalling old games to the HDD, so I think it’s something with the new disc format.
I did the same thing except i took my first generation xbox 360 a part its really not that hard go t my air compressor tank and got all of the dust out of there and for the most part my xbox was loading and reading the disc at a normal rate.
Its not hard to take them apart. First take of the front face plate then the two side plates from their you rip off your waranty sticker (if your smart you can take it off without ripping it by aplying some heat) thenundo some tabs and a few screws and ta da u just took apart your xbox so you can do some major maintness.
no ideas so far, because almost everyone I know has been able to install to HDD. However, I have noticed that the abundance of glitches and mishaps in this game are quite high, and maybe this is just another problem that game has, (or it could be the first gen Xbox you have is dying)
I installed it on a first-gen Xbox 360 with 120 Gb with no problems… If you have the space, I don’t know what could be wrong with it, sorry. 