Question Asked: How Do I Transfer Content From One Xbox Hard Drive To Another?
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Aug 26th, 2008 |
First, let’s tackle why you’d need to do this. The majority of Xbox consoles come with some form of a hard drive nowadays. If, like me, you bought the system with the 20gb hard drive, and, also like me, download every Rock Band downloadable song there is, you’re eventually going to run out of disk space.
You’ve got two options; the cheap way, and the right way.
The cheap way would be to get a memory card, plug it into the front of your XBox, and move your data there. Then put your new hard drive in, and copy the data to it. Time consuming, not automated, and may not be that cheap, depending on the amount of data you’ve got.
The “right” way, is the Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Kit
So, how does it work? Pretty simple, from what I can see. You take this “transfer cable”, plug your old hard drive into it, put your new drive on your console, and run their CD in your console.
They make it pretty well known that it’s a one time transfer, not a copy or a clone. And it’ll wipe the data from your 20gb drive. Seems well worth the price, to me. The data copy can take an hour+, so be sure you’ve got time to sit and wait. It won’t copy data as fast as your computer, because, well, it’s not a computer, it’s a gaming system.
The process seems pretty easy to do, and has generated pretty good results, aside from people complaining over the price of the 120gb drive ($179.99 on Amazon, $229.99 from Microsoft.) However, if you’re running out of space on your hard drive, you really don’t have any options, aside from upgrading, or deleting some of your precious content from your drive. Which, after paying all those Microsoft points for, who’d want to? It’s your content, you paid for it, you should get to move it.
Microsoft also disclaims that some downloaded content may not be transferrable, due to licensing issues, and may need to be authenticated to use (you may need to login.)
As someone who’s been looking for the way to do this, now I know. Thanks for asking, it was a great question. I hope you’ve got a better understanding now.
Edit: I finally got around to buying the 120Gig hard drive last night, and used the transfer kit to move my files from one hard drive to the other. It took just over an hour, and was really easy and painless. After it completed, it warned that I had some “corrupt files that couldn’t be moved”, but I couldn’t see anything missing.
Warning, the new hard drive has about 10gigs worth of junk on it (demo games, videos, etc) that you can delete to free up space.
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