Xbox issue

[trem1]

Can anyone wiser than me help with an issue were having with my youngest son's xbox. He had an xbox with a 60HDD and 'santa'
bought him a new 360 slim with 250 internal HDD.
Now thinking it was gonna be easy to transfer the data from one to another we bought a transfer cable from ebay BUT the xbox doesnt recognize the cable etc like it shows on youtube etc.
It apparently needs the info transfering to a pc.
how does that work and how would i get the info back off pc and onto new xbox??

OR does anyone have a proper cable to transfer from xbox to xbox direct that i could borrow/buy.

The cheapest i can buy the 'proper' cable for for £15 which seems a bit steep when its only gonna be used once

[nige65]

What does he need to save because if hes on xbox live and downloaded anything he can transfer membership to new xbox and anything hes bought can be downloaded again free .

Transferring Content Licenses to a New Console - Xbox.com

Ive just done mine bought myself a new slim version just transfered license over and downloaded games again.

[trem1]

Originally Posted by nige65

What does he need to save because if hes on xbox live and downloaded anything he can transfer membership to new xbox and anything hes bought can be downloaded again free .

Transferring Content Licenses to a New Console - Xbox.com

Ive just done mine bought myself a new slim version just transfered license over and downloaded games again.

thanks nige.cant ask him at the mo as he's in the shower but i think its his saved games etc and yea he's on xbox live, so if he used microsoft points can he retrieve these items

[nige65]

Originally Posted by trem1

thanks nige.cant ask him at the mo as he's in the shower but i think its his saved games etc and yea he's on xbox live, so if he used microsoft points can he retrieve these items

Yes purchases are linked to the xbox when you buy new you transfer to new xbox so you just download them again free.

[DGH308]

You can transfer game saves with a flash drive.
Might take a bit of time but it's an option.

[john_h]

as above really...but basically you can connect the harddrives to your pc via the SATA connections, not sure with the old style hard drives but i know for defo for the new slim ones. also tell him to copy all his saved games to the "cloud" and on his new download his profile and access his saved games from the "cloud"

i found it cheaper to buy the 4gb go model (matt black) and then buy a 250gb harddrive from ebay...turned out it wasnt genuine so i couldnt play classic xbox but a little formatting and some files found on the net soon sorted that...now works like a genuine hdd.