You'd be lucky to get 5 dollars for a 20GB, just chuck it in your closet. Heck, craigslist and the like have people selling old 120GB or maybe even a newer 250GB drives all the time for cheap.Ĥ) That should be fine, I'm sure smart people could hook it up to their computer and restore the erased bits like a regular hard drive anyways, but they'd have to be pretty heinous. Granted, installing games helps noise and speed a little bit, but you've gone this long running off the discs anyways, so save the money from the 250GB one. You can pop it out of the gray case and stick it the the SATA port on the back of the new XBox, or buy a proper enclosure(5 bucks?) from DealExtreme or somewhere like that. Unless you set those up to save to the cloud, they'll be stuck on the old hard drive unless you get a transfer cable or plug it right into the new XBox.Ģ/3) Honestly, from what you've told us, I'd just go with the 4GB and use your old hard drive. The only thing to really concern yourself with is gamesaves. Through the XBox website, you can "push" that stuff back down to your new XBox though, it shows you what you've bought and you can pick what you want to bring back. If it doesn't have the cable, when he signs in on the new XBox it'll pull his profile down with his achievements and stuff, but won't bring the old downloaded content down immediately(like Rock Band songs and demos and any DLC). Is it OK to wipe it before selling?ġ) I think some of the 250GB models come with a transfer cable as well, so you can plug in the old hard drive into a USB port on the new XBox and it'll copy everything over exactly.
This guide deals with how to physically take the drive apart and replace it with your shiny, new WD HDD.
Microsoft makes it expensive or difficult to upgrade your hard drive by limiting your options with said upgrade.
We do play Rockband as well.ġ - How does transferring his old account to the new Xbox 360 work? Does he just need to sign in, or is it more complicated? Will all our old content move over automatically, like purchased Rockband songs and any achivements he has?Ģ - For his use, any benefit of going with a HDD model? Or should I just get the 4GB model and call it a day?ģ - If there is a significant benefit to the hard disk, should I get the 4GB model and install the old drive in it? Or just bit the bullet and buy a new 250GB model?Ĥ - Finally, if I buy a new 250GB model I may just eBay the old 20GB drive. Here I show you the rather simple replacement of the actual hard drive in the 360s HDD enclosure. mostly just plays the COD series and some sports games. He doesn't really do many downloads, Netflix, etc. I have the old hard disk (20GB I believe) and I believe it can be installed in a new Xbox 360 slim but I'm not sure if it's worth it. A year or 2 back I performed a RROD fix (heat gun, repair kit, etc.) and it actually performed well for quite a long time but now I think it just needs to be replaced. My son's Xbox 360 (original style) finally died a few months back.