According to a poster on Xbox-Scene who had this happen to him, if you have been banned in a previous wave and have kept the console for offline play, if you update the dashboard from a wave 4 game it will know that your console is banned and it will trigger the same effects that we're seeing in the current ban wave - hard drive installs disabled, gamertag corruption etc. I guess there's no solution to this, because if you patch the game to an earlier wave, it will ask for an update before you can play, as the update in the wave 3 partition isn't the same as the update in the wave 4 partition.
Is it possible to go back to an earlier dashboard. The reason why I ask is because I have been banned and can no longer watch my movies. Its a pain if you can't.
Lets say you NEVER plan to go online with your console. Is it safe to update the dashboard from disk?
It depends. If you have already been banned in a previous ban wave, then no. That's why I started this thread. If you have not been banned but you're keeping your console offline, then at the moment it's safe. There is a list of revoked consoles in the firmware update itself though, so it's possible that they could add a list of consoles banned in this ban wave to that list in future firmware updates and then it would no longer be safe to update. If 1,000,000 people really have been banned, I highly doubt that would ever happen though. The list would be huge. The current list of revoked consoles in the NXE firmware only has something like 400 console IDs on it.
YOUR GAMERTAG IS NOT CORRUPTED YOU CAN STILL USE IT! http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-152/banned_xbox_users_must_read-814370/#4921166
that is what i am hoping for a workaround to get the hard drive functions back i can give a sheet about xbox live
