XBox 360 Hard Drive

[Wigeon Incognito]

Hi,

I was given an XBox 360 with a couple of games for free and all was well until I bought GTA4. I hadn't used it much until then so hadn't realised why it was given to me - the hard drive is broken.

The fault is intermittent so sometimes the console starts fine but other times it won't, if I remove the hard drive the problem is solved but obviously I can't save games etc.

The question is, if I buy a new hard drive can I just plug it in and play?

I tried reading up on the internet last night but it started to sound a lot more complicated than that.

Thanks,

Matt.

[tim2100]

AFAIK

Yes you can just get a new hard drive, and drop in.

However you will lose all your current games saves / downloads / demos etc.

If it is just for game saves and not downloads or games then maybe a memory card will be a cheaper option?

[Bungleaio]

You should just be able to buy an new one and fit. There are cables so that you can transfer the info from one to another.

[Xenocide]

Yep, it will be fine. Plug + play baby.

[Wigeon Incognito]

Excellent thanks. I think I got caught up in the whole aftermarket hard drives, mod chips, bios this and bios that talk which confused the heck out of me!!

At last I can progress beyond trying every car I can find and discovering jumps in GTA4!

[madrob6]

My local gamestation has a transfer cable that they use to copy the contents of a hard drive to a new one (e.g. if you upgrade to an elite). Might be worth enquiring at your local and see if they offer the same thing.

[Wigeon Incognito]

madrob6 said:

My local gamestation has a transfer cable that they use to copy the contents of a hard drive to a new one (e.g. if you upgrade to an elite). Might be worth enquiring at your local and see if they offer the same thing.

Cheers, although in my case I literally hadn't used the machine until GTA4 arrived so anything on the broken hard drive can be junked.

[rsv gone!]

What type of hard drives do they use? Standard IDEs? SATAs?

If so, are they automatically formatted?

Does anyone know if I can add a hard drive to my Xbox360 Arcade in the future?