Ironman273 Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Microsoft Now Selling Xbox 360 Hard Drive Migration Kit By Eddie Makuch Microsoft today put an Xbox 360 Hard Drive Data Migration Transfer Kit for sale on its Web store finally allowing faithful gamers looking to buy larger hard drives to do so without forfeiting all their data in the upgrade. Don't know about you, but I'm still on my 2005 original 20 GB hard drive. And with the rise of digital gaming, I've been left biting the bullet and downloading something, erasing it to make room for something else, then re-downloading it when I want to play it again. I've been waiting to buy a kit like this to upgrade to a 120 or 250 GB HDD for some time and now, with certainty, I'll do it. And at $14.99, it's not the totally "bend-over" price point I expected. Hooray. Buy your [way too long of name] kit at the Microsoft Store today. Source: Blast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I've been waiting to buy a kit like this to upgrade to a 120 or 250 GB HDD for some time and now, with certainty, I'll do it. The Xbox 360 HDD's that were sold at retail came with the transfer kit. I don't know what he was waiting for. The problem was for those who had upgraded Xbox 360 consoles themselves, not just the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motoko. Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 This is excellent news. Now we can buy bare bone laptop drives and transfer the OS ROM to the drive w/ out the hassle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 [/size][/font][/color] The Xbox 360 HDD's that were sold at retail came with the transfer kit. I don't know what he was waiting for. The problem was for those who had upgraded Xbox 360 consoles themselves, not just the hard drive. What if your console broke and you bought a new one with a larger HDD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 What if your console broke and you bought a new one with a larger HDD? Microsoft gave you a free one for that. You just had to print the request form out from online and fax it in. Took less than a week to ship it to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well I'm sure there's plenty of people who bought drives off ebay or used from other stores like gamestop and whatnot that didn't come with this so it's a good thing. I do hope this doesn't mean they're going to short this piece of equipment from the 250GB HDD when that goes stand-alone retail later this month. -Spenser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I agree it's a good thing. I was just pointing out the guy in the article who waited to BUY one of these kits when they became available instead of just buying the HDD a long time ago because it comes with one. But hey, if he wants a free one and wants to buy one, more power to him (unless as you say, he was buying from eBay). LOL. I have 3 of these laying around home. I ordered one (a free one) and Microsoft sent out 2 of them. While I was waiting for them to be shipped to me, a friend of mine ended up letting me borrow his. He told me to keep it because he wouldn't need it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massiveterra Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I currently am attempting to upgrade to a 120 Gig a friend gave me, and I have the transfer cable but no transfer disc. I'm starting to think to bite the bullet and spend the $15 to buy this because it's going to cost me $15 just to buy a pack of dual layer dvds, and that doesn't even guarantee that the transfer iso will work in my non-modded console. Suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL_ Veteran Posted March 8, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 8, 2010 I've heard the older transfer kits only worked from 20GB to 120GB, so yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 This is excellent news. Now we can buy bare bone laptop drives and transfer the OS ROM to the drive w/ out the hassle. there are not such thing in the HD and, anyway if you are upgrading your HD with a WD drive you have to plug it in your PC, so you'll never need that kit (I've upgraded first to a 120GB and then to a 250GB without that kit and never loose a save ;)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motoko. Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 there are not such thing in the HD and, anyway if you are upgrading your HD with a WD drive you have to plug it in your PC, so you'll never need that kit (I've upgraded first to a 120GB and then to a 250GB without that kit and never loose a save ;)) O rly? That's even better because I have about 7.5GB of space left out of 20GB :rofl: This process shouldn't take long either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I bought one of these off eBay for ?7 not too long ago. Nice that you can them from an official source now though I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted March 8, 2010 Global Moderator Share Posted March 8, 2010 I think the fact that MS is now putting it on sale directly might mean more than people might think. I expect they could be gearing up to either agressivly price newer and bigger HDDs and want to get this out as well, OR there could be some other change in the works and this will be needed (a new 360 slim like in the other thread maybe with a dif hdd setup?). It sure is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistical Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Microsoft gave you a free one for that. You just had to print the request form out from online and fax it in. Took less than a week to ship it to you. Except they stopped doing it sometime ago, probably around a year at least last time I checked and then it was only available to specific regions. The United States was not one of those regions they did it for free anymore, especially when I called back in August/September '09. Some may of been able to get the Microsoft Reps to give it to them for free over the phone but this was highly unlikely to of happened and did not for free. It was cheap and it can come in handy with friends that may need it anytime or you can just sell it on eBay I am sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Except they stopped doing it sometime ago, probably around a year at least last time I checked and then it was only available to specific regions. The United States was not one of those regions they did it for free anymore, especially when I called back in August/September '09. Some may of been able to get the Microsoft Reps to give it to them for free over the phone but this was highly unlikely to of happened and did not for free. It was cheap and it can come in handy with friends that may need it anytime or you can just sell it on eBay I am sure. I wasn't aware that they stopped giving out free ones prior to this $14.99 option. That used to be the case however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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