You need to have the Xbox 360 Hacked Backwards Compatibility files on your console, you should be able to play Xbox Classic games then.
My theory is that will happen if you fill the internal hard drive, however i'm no where near doing that to test it.
Nope its not the save game, i imagine it could be something unique to your console perhaps. Save games cant be copied on to external drives.
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