Xbox 360 250GB HDD [UK]


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Hi all,

Xbox 360 250GB HDD pre-order arrived today via Amazon Prime UK. Going to go transfer my content from my 60GB HDD. Attached photos for anyone who wants to know what you get. Seems the transfer kit module is different from ones I have seem in Gamestation (2nd hand).

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The tranfer kit is the original microsoft one. Thats the normal one. The off brands you can find online. Im surprised you can find em in store. If by 2nd hand you mean used then im sure someone must of traded it in. But the one you got is the "real deal".

Traded in ones sold separate or with 60GB & 120GB HDD's (Shrink wrapped).

Only seen two before and they both had Xbox style white plastic down them, guess unofficial or import?

I am jealous. I just got a 60gb drive off a mate (his wife won't let him on his 360 so he never uses it) and i bought a transfer cable off of ebay, which turned out not to be a Microsoft one, using the software supplied it was an utter nightmare getting 12gb of data switched between the two. i lost save games for Forza 3 (I was on season 18 :blush: ) and my daughter was miffed that her Viva Pinata save was corrupt. I also had to restore our profiles cos the new one didn't like them.

I had to re-install some games as well. But after a day and a half I managed to get a reasonably usable XBOX360.

Then Microsoft did that update on the 6th of April which allowed all yer crap to be transferred by a USB stick. BARSTEWARDS.

Everything transfered over ok, it did skip installed (from DVD) games though.

The 250GB HDD comes pre-loaded with the following:

Video

Welcome to Xbox Live (2010)

Forenza 3 Customised Car E3 2009

Arcade

Hexic HD

Peggle (Trial)

Geometry Wars 2 (Trial)

Pinball (Trial)

Pacman (Trial)

Transfers content from my Sandisk 4GB faster than the 60GB did, there is no 3 second delay between selecting Transfer and it actually doing the transfer.

Nice. I've had my 250 GB hard drive for a couple of weeks now, and it's definitely a nice upgrade from the 20 GB drive. The first thing I did (after transferring my contents) was install Forza 3 to the hard drive, and then install all of the extra content that came with the game as well. I couldn't do that with my old drive, since it was so full :).

After I finished the transfer, I had a message on the screen telling me that some of my data (on the old drive) was corrupt and was therefore not transferred. I have no idea what that data was, though. All of the important stuff (Mass Effect 1, 2 saves, Dragon Age saves) seems to be intact though, so I'm not too worried about it.

nice one Aergan, thanks for posting this. So it moved all your arcade games as-is? saved game positions as well?

already ordered one of these but it's taking its sweet time getting here. this is a good thing to have for what i believe will be the last couple of years with the 360 until the X3ox comes out. Yep you read it here first. X3ox.

anyway, also tired of listening to the poor DVD grind in MW2. time to give the dude some time off. nice thread once more!

nice one Aergan, thanks for posting this. So it moved all your arcade games as-is? saved game positions as well?

already ordered one of these but it's taking its sweet time getting here. this is a good thing to have for what i believe will be the last couple of years with the 360 until the X3ox comes out. Yep you read it here first. X3ox.

anyway, also tired of listening to the poor DVD grind in MW2. time to give the dude some time off. nice thread once more!

No probs.

Used the Transfer Disc, transferred all my games on demand (Assassins Creed), arcade game purchases (R-Type, Sonic 1, 2, 3, S&K), saved games, gamer pics, themes etc. All licences carried over, can play any purchased content with any account on the Xbox still.

Only thing it skipped were the Installed Games. Have installed FFXIII (3 Discs), Batman: DA, Street Fighter IV, Fable II & Devil May Cry 4 so far.

£66.59 from Amazon UK (Pre-order Discount & Free Express delivery via Prime).

Thought about hacking a drive but I've tried to keep everything legit so far as I share the Xbox with my Mrs & our two kids.

Wanted the extra space for demos and to install most of our games onto as our one year old is facinated by the DVD-ROM drive read noises and belives it requires his immediate attention for hands-on investigation.

hey Aergan, finally got my 250GB and plugged it in over the weekend. migration took 30 minutes, it moved everything except the second Forza 3 disc, which i had installed. Works like a charm so far, installing games is great, the console's practically silent this way. Good on the poor old DVD drive. And the sense of freedom - so intense i almost took my pants off the first evening!

good, sound like you're also pleased with your purchase, that's the point. i could justify this one, so i went for it and it makes me feel all gooey inside. it even came with the excellent Hexic HD free. Yes, the same game i got free with the 20GB back in 2006. that's beautiful.

good, sound like you're also pleased with your purchase, that's the point. i could justify this one, so i went for it and it makes me feel all gooey inside. it even came with the excellent Hexic HD free. Yes, the same game i got free with the 20GB back in 2006. that's beautiful.

looool. Hexic HD wow, they could have created a whole new game just for that HD release!

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