I recently purchased a 250gb hard drive for $70 from a seller called "imagestore" on buy.com. I thought it was a good deal. The extent of my knowledge on xbox hard drives led me to think that it was possibly a generic hard drive. The amount of reading I've done on hddhacker and xplorer360 extreme has left me confused and overwhelmed. It came with a data transfer cable. I haven't plugged in the hard drive to my computer or the xbox 360. So, it's a knock off. It came with a mini-cd that contains broken english instructions, some screenshots of what the steps should look like, and xplorer360extreme2.exe. Here's what the instructions look like. 1、connect the xbox360’s hand driver to the PC 2、open and setup the software Xplorer360 3、use the Xplorer360 to open the hand driver’s Partition3，and teke the game’ patch to cache’s folders Then, there's stuff about forza motorsport 2 more cars>PATCH, supersaves, transferring themes to 00000000000000000 "content" folder. My questions: Does this suggest there are things already installed on the hard drive? Can I delete them? Should I delete them? How do I install the new hard drive to the 360? Thank you so much in advance for accommodating my ignorance.
Well, I got frustrated and impatient so I just dug up an old flash drive, put my game saves on it, plugged in my new HDD, recovered my gamertag, moved my saves, and am redownloading and installing all of my stuff (not all that much really). So far, everything is great.
If you have an old hard drive you can simply connect that to the transfer cable then plug it in to the Xbox 360, if you look under memory mangment you can copy all your stuff from the old drive to the new. If anything is already on the hard drive you will see it under memory management section. Its basically telling you very badly that if you download a title update from the internet you can drag it in to the cache folder. As its clear from your other post you are not banned from Xbox Live that should not bother you, your games will update from live. I dont really see any reason for you to connect your hard drive to the PC from what you have said.