XBox hard drive quandry

[18-Till-I-Die]

So i got a second hard drive for the 360 because my old one is basically filled with game demos, and i'd prefer not to delete them. When i put the new hard drive in, for some reason my profile is not there, so i check and i found out i can move stuff from one hard drive to the other. Now he's my question:

1--is it really the case i have to move my profile everytime i change hard drives? Cause that seems like a tremendously stupid feature.

2--am i fucking something up here? I am the most technology illiterate person ever so i honestly have no idea what the hell i'm doing.


I'm not moving my profile or something till i am sure i know what is going on, or if i have to. The only other option i guess is getting my profile on the new hard drive by "retrieving" it, but it wants my Windows Live ID, whatever the Hell that is, and i have no idea how to give it to the thing. Also i'm trying not to turn my console on and off too much cause i don't want to fuck it up, Red Ring of Death and all that. So yeah, any help would be appreciated.

I wasn't sure if i should ask something this minor in Testing or not so my bad if this seems a bit irrelevent for G&C. (though to be fair, it's about both)

[18-Till-I-Die]

Ghetto edit:

Missed an "a" in quandary there...

That's what i get for typing while drinking.

[Vendetta]

your profile is stored on the hard drive, yes.

If you want to swap between hard drives but not faff around with the profile, get a memory card and keep the profile on that

[General Zod]

Do you really need to keep the game demos? It's not like you can't just redownload them off XBL if you really wanted to for some reason.

[Stark]

If you have two 360 HDDs that are the same size, you're Doing It Wrong and MS Does Not Support Your Jiggery-pokery. If you bought a larger one like a normal human being, use the transfer cable to move all your shit onto the larger one and throw the other one away.

Or get MS to ship you a transfer cable, get sick of waiting after a week of JSF whining, move everything important via memory card, then have the cable show up right before xmas. I can get it for you wholesale!

[18-Till-I-Die]

I think i'm probably going to get a memory card, seeing as i already got the hard drive i might as well find a way to use it.

I'll have to see if i can get a transfer cable maybe, but i honestly don't know what "bigger one" means, WRT the hard drive. For all i know it is the same size but then i didn't think it made any difference. Frankly i thought that they were all some uniform size, like mass produced. I got this one after going to three different stores, i found a gamestop with some kind of HDD/XBox live "starter" thing package and that was the only one i could find. If there were larger ones i was in the dark about it. So i guess i must slog through the internets to find some explanation.

The one i got is 60gb, the original came with the XBox and i have no idea what the storage capacity is for it. I may have to dig up the box and see if it's written on there.

See when i say i'm tech-illiterate i'm serious, i'm like a caveman toying with this shit and i honestly have no idea what the Hell i'm doing. I figured it was like an old memory card for the PS2, but again i find i've been left behind by technology like some bizarre anachronism.

[Stark]

Dude, the size is written on the drive in big letters. I hear that 60GB drives don't come with a transfer cable (because MS are wankers presumably) but if you call support they'll send you one (eventually).

[18-Till-I-Die]

Well the one i got at GameStop certainly has the storage capacity writen on it, 60gb, but the original has no writing onthe outside that i can find, other than some warning type things on the bottom.

But yea, i'm going to try for a transfer cable. Probably also a memory card.

I THINK...that the original was 80gb. I recall maybe reading that on the box, or when i ordered it. I'm not even sure if they go that high...in retrospect it may have been 60gb too. I thought it was odd the one i got recently had the number writen on it but the original didn't, maybe it's some mistake in printing or something?

[Death from the Sea]

Well the one i got at GameStop certainly has the storage capacity writen on it, 60gb, but the original has no writing onthe outside that i can find, other than some warning type things on the bottom.

But yea, i'm going to try for a transfer cable. Probably also a memory card.

I THINK...that the original was 80gb. I recall maybe reading that on the box, or when i ordered it. I'm not even sure if they go that high...in retrospect it may have been 60gb too. I thought it was odd the one i got recently had the number writen on it but the original didn't, maybe it's some mistake in printing or something?

the original 360 HDD are only 20 gigs and the ELITE 360 HDD are 120 gigs. They came out with those 60 gig HDD to "help" with the new XBOX LIVE "experience"....

To check your drive size, plug in said drive and check the memory usage, it should tell you there.