Xbox 360 hard drives

AngelaBerthot · Aug 26, 2016

My Xbox slim disc drive has died. I need a new Xbox my question is will my internal hard drive work with the newer 360 systems or would I have to get another slim. Thank you.

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Mister Beep · Aug 26, 2016

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What specific Xbox 360 console do you own? Do you have an official Xbox 360 hard drive attached? In order to play Original Xbox games on Xbox 360, you need a console with an official Xbox 360 hard drive since the software required is stored on the hard drives
themselves. 3rd party hard drives or non-official Xbox 360 hard drives will not work.

Hope this helps!

VENOM MDK · Aug 26, 2016

Original xbox games not playing on xbox 360 s 4gb, and not wanting to purchase hard drive

You can buy either this HDD
http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/accessories/xbox-360-250gb-internal-hard-drive/83934

or this HDD
http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/accessories/xbox-360-250gb-internal-hard-drive/83934

And you'll be good to go. Just make sure they are the official Microsoft HDD drive.

Smwutches · Aug 26, 2016

If you're referring to the 4gb internal memory, then you would not be able to remove that and put it in another console. If you're referring to an actually hard drive, then you can just pop that out and put it in abother Slim.

QuickMythril · Oct 31, 2018

the original console is officially called the Xbox 360, the first "slim" with the silver touch sensitive power button is the 360S, and the newest one, released when the xbox one was released, which does not have a ring of light with 4 sections, but a smaller
circle with only one light is called the 360E.

if you are asking if your hard drive can be taken from a 360S and put into a 360E then YES! if i understand you correctly, it will work with the "newer system" 360E, you do not need "another slim" 360S.

Mister Beep

What specific Xbox 360 console do you own? Do you have an official Xbox 360 hard drive attached? In order to play Original Xbox games on Xbox 360, you need a console with an official Xbox 360 hard drive since the software required is stored on the hard drives
themselves. 3rd party hard drives or non-official Xbox 360 hard drives will not work.

Hope this helps!

Obsessive Power

Hi,

Is your Xbox 360 hard drive an official hard drive? If you bought a '360 Hard drive' from private sellers on eBay or Amazon, then it's likely that the drive is not official hard drive.

Only official Xbox 360 hard drives from Microsoft will play original Xbox games using backwards compatibility. Only they contain the files in order for the emulation software to work. This will not effect Xbox 360 titles.

Obsessive Power

Hi,

It's likely because the hard drive you're using on the Xbox 360 isn't an official Microsoft hard drive. Only official Xbox hard drives from MS will allow you to run original Xbox games made backwards compatible on the 360 platform.

Original Xbox games won't run on a 360 if:

You don't have an internal hard drive
Your internal drive is not official - knock off hard drives from eBay and Amazon won't run original games.
Your 360 hard drive is faulty

Zero420override

Here's a link for common 360 Hard Drive issues, I hope it's of some help.
Troubleshoot Xbox 360 Hard Drives

HassanB

Hello,

This problem usually occurs when you have an Xbox 360 hard drive that is not genuine. This can happen if this Xbox 360 hard drive was purchased from a place like eBay or Amazon Marketplace and it was not an original Xbox 360 hard drive.

Only hard drives manufactured by Microsoft in their packaging have the emulation files needed to play original Xbox games. The hard drives that are purchased from eBay / Amazon Marketplace are usually fake/knock off hard drives which can only play Xbox 360
games.

Xbox 360 hard drives