XBLA and Hard drive questions

[moonwhistle]

I would like to know whether xbla games are tied to a specific hard drive / console or profile.

I have several profiles and I can play the xbla games from any of these. Does that mean I can transfer one profile to another hdd that the games will go with it?

I'd like to experiment with buying xbla games putting them on a spare 20GB hdd, playing them to completetion and then selling them on along with the hdd.

Has anyone tried this?

[Paulos G]

As long as the profile with which you first downloaded the title is signed in to Live any other profile on the HDD can play it. They are tied to both the profile and console first used otherwise.

[speedlolita]

I'd like to experiment with buying xbla games putting them on a spare 20GB hdd, playing them to completetion and then selling them on along with the hdd.

Has anyone tried this?

Not possible, they will revert to their trial version if the account in use has no history of purchasing them.

Although a few of my games like to act like they're Trial versions occasionally anyway.