Help with xbox hard drive. (Old white version)

Ki11erKid07 · Jul 25, 2015

Hi my son has the white xbox and his hard drive is now full as he downloads games rather than buys the disks. What can i do now as he doesn't want to delete anything as its mostly full games.

Is it just a case of buying a new,bigger hard drive and clipping it on? But how can i get the games he has stored already on to his new hard drive? Is he able to just download them all again for free via xbox live?

Any help appreciated as there not cheap things for me to get it wrong!

:)

Daft Badger · Jul 25, 2015

I don't know the difference between Xbox 4GB and Xbox Slim

Not sure there is a white version of the 360 slim,sounds like it's one of the old style consoles without a hard drive,if that's the case you need one of the old stle hard drives that clip on the top of the console.

I could be wrong,just not heard of a white 360 slim,only black.

Mistress Sara · Jul 25, 2015

Elite hdd

Hi there,

The older white 360 consoles, and the black Elite consoles that came out shortly after can use the same drive. The newer, slimmer console versions cannot use the same drives as the older consoles.

This page will show the consoles and which drive will work.

Smwutches · Jul 25, 2015

At this point, it would be difficult to find a new hard drive for that model of console. However, they recently released an update so you can add any external USB hard drive up to 2TB for extra storage space (stay away from Seagates though). Then he could
leave his current hard drive plugged in and still have extra space.

Anything you download can be redownloaded again for free from your download history. But with both hard drives plugged in, he can also move data between the hard drives in his settings.

Irixion · Jul 26, 2015

You can buy an external and transfer your files onto that, although some content can't be used on external drives. There's some places that you can find real HDDs, though I'd avoid online stores because they can sell you a fake which ...well they don't really
work too well. Go to a pawn shop or something--they normally have good HDDs. I grabbed a 120 GB one for I think it was 40 bucks or something like that.

banej · Oct 31, 2018

Unfortunately some data cannot be moved between HDD without the use of a transfer cable - Eg GOW3 profile, DOA4 game saves, etc.

Irixion

You can buy an external and transfer your files onto that, although some content can't be used on external drives. There's some places that you can find real HDDs, though I'd avoid online stores because they can sell you a fake which ...well they don't really
work too well. Go to a pawn shop or something--they normally have good HDDs. I grabbed a 120 GB one for I think it was 40 bucks or something like that.

banej

Unfortunately some data cannot be moved between HDD without the use of a transfer cable - Eg GOW3 profile, DOA4 game saves, etc.

Smwutches

At this point, it would be difficult to find a new hard drive for that model of console. However, they recently released an update so you can add any external USB hard drive up to 2TB for extra storage space (stay away from Seagates though). Then he could
leave his current hard drive plugged in and still have extra space.

Anything you download can be redownloaded again for free from your download history. But with both hard drives plugged in, he can also move data between the hard drives in his settings.

Daft Badger

Not sure there is a white version of the 360 slim,sounds like it's one of the old style consoles without a hard drive,if that's the case you need one of the old stle hard drives that clip on the top of the console.

I could be wrong,just not heard of a white 360 slim,only black.

Gaven1982

It's a hard drive that was on my old white xbox. It does give me the option to choose drives, and is showing up where i put it.

Help with xbox hard drive. (Old white version)