Upgrading a 360 hard drive

[QualityChimp]

Hello!

My 360 is playing up again. I did the X-clamp fix last time it showed the RRoD but it's starting to freeze on games and finally just on the bootup screen.

If I were to buy a new 360, such as the 250Gb Super Elite, how do I get all the info, game saves and downloaded games from my teeny tiny launch hard drive into the new behemoth-sized drive?

Just done a quick search but couldn't find an appropriate thread. Sorry if there's one already about this kind of thing.

Thanks in advance!

[Flabio]

If you buy the drive seperate it comes with a cable and software to do the transfer. If you buy a brand new 360 you'll need to either crib a cable and disc off someone or email MS and they'll sell you one.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976183/?sd=xbox

[EvilBoris]

Nobody knows how it will work with the 250GB drives because the disc that comes with the cable only accepts 20GBto120GB transfers, I believe people had the same problem to start with when the 60GB drives were released.

[Kubrick]

Alternatively, use a Memory Unit to shift your saves. Preferably a 256MB one.

[Robster]

Would you have to then d/l all your map packs again as the majority of packs are 0.5 gb ?.

[Flabio]

You can get 512 meg memory units if you want to do it that way.

[wod]

wasn't there a way to make a 120gb hard disc for cheaper by buying the exact same model as in the elite 360 ones and flashing a copy of the firmware of a drive ?

has anyone done that and is able to use xbox live ?

[EvilBoris]

yeah there was and the new dash update could possibly stop those from working