[XBOX360] Can you use your own Hard Disk inside the caddy?


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Maybe an idea is to buy the biggest WDBEVS drive you can find (maybe 500gb?) and just flash it with a MS 120GB firmware.

Sure, you not using all the space BUTT if Microsoft ever release a bigger HDD (250GB, 320GB?) you can just flash your 500GB HDD with whatever firmware is from Microsoft's newest and biggest drive. That will work. ;)

Problem with that is that you'll lose all your data during the "upgrade".

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Luckily I upgrade my HDD after I got a jasper, so instead of fumbling around with transferring data from old hdd to PC then PC to new HDD I just flashed my 120gb drive on my PC then transfered all my game saves from my 20gb HDD to the internal memory in my xbox. I then put the 120gb HDD in the 360 HDD caddy and moved all my gamesaves from the internal memory to the new drive, also did this with gamerprofiles (Y)

I just had to download all of my rock band DLC again :p

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Yeah, that works if you have a 120Gb memory card =P

you only need your gamertag and gamesaves. all the installs, demo's, video's, DLC you purchased can be redownloaded..

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yeah but that's what I'm saying about loosing all your data. 100Gb of stuff is a lot to have to redownload and install =P

Best to transfer it to your PC and then back to the new drive later. There is that option open iirc. MS could just open up the 360 to write to external USB hdds imo. Sure this will impact sales of their hdds, but looking at it the other way, it's the storage limit that keeps many people from getting more stuff.

If you get rid of this limit on videos/demos and other stuff by opening it up to externals, then they'll make up the difference through media downloads instead.

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It says you need the specific WD 120GB drive but could you use a 160gb WD since the 120 is a little hard to find. I don't mind loosing 40gb of space to have a 120gb drive.

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