360 HD upgrade, easy?

[Oyeve]

I know this was probably asked years ago but I will ask again. Can I just buy a 500gb laptop HD, use my xbox data transfer cable to copy my 120gb xbox 360 data to the 500gb one? I am out of space and hate all the usb flash drives piling up everywhere. I have my old 20gb 360 HD and interface that I could pop in a 500gb drive. Will that work?

 

[MentalIlness]

I thought if you used a third party hard drive, it could get you banned from LIVE.

Doesn't Microsoft have a limit on the size of the drive that can be used ?

 

[Ross Ridge]

I don't know whether Microsoft has gotten around to banning anyone for this, but for a third party drive to work it not only needs to be the same size one of the Microsoft's official drives, but the same model of drive. You need to reflash the drive with Microsoft's firmware for it work with the Xbox 360.

 

[Sonikku]

Honestly I'd just spring for one of the 250g HDD's on amazon configured for 360 slims for 50 bucks and transfer to that. The only down side is that if you want backwards compatibility on the third party drives that sell for half of what microsoft charges for theirs you'll need to add the partial to it yourself using one of the google guides. Beyond that I have not heard of people getting banned for them, as amazon reviews are nearly all positive. I don't know if the current models will even acknowledge the full capacity of a 500 gig that you flash yourself and get the $10 enclosure for. I know the 360 does not recognize more then 16 gigs of flash memory no matter how big the jump drive is, but I couldn't say as for harddrives. Do you "really" need 500?

 

[Raduque]

Yeah, just put a X360S 250gb drive inside the 20gb's enclosure and use your transfer cable on that. Maybe not cheaper, but easier and less hassle.

 

[dpodblood]

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