Ran out of space -- Now What?

Got a question for you guys:

Now that the 360 has the Games on Demand feature, I'm consistently finding myself deleting old crap off my xbox that I never use, but I've finally reached a point where I've filled up my hard drive with stuff I actually want to keep. I've got Burnout Paradise and Halo installed right now, taking up a good 4GBish of space, and forget installing my games anymore (I usually only keep the current game that I'm playing installed, but I can't even do that). I've got a bunch of TV shows I'd like to keep, along with a bunch of Arcade Games that I absolutely love.

I know the natural answer here is to just buy another Hard Drive, and I'd do that without hesitation if that meant it would simply increase my storage space, but do I have to transfer my gamertag onto the Hard Drive I'd like to currently use everytime? Aren't there other problems like keeping the data consistent? Is there any way to corrupt the data?

How many of you out there regularly use more than one Hard Drive, and is it a serious hassle? Because I really don't want to drop a ridiculous amount of money on a new hard drive to find out it's an absolute b*tch to deal with while gaming.

Do you have the 120 gig HDD?

I have the 120 gb hard drive so i dont have to use more then one hard drive. I have lots of games and videos and everything else on it and i still have about 75 gb's left.

Once you buy something it's always yours. You could delete things you don't play that often and redownload it for free whenever you do. But that's alot of work.

i got a question if i bought rugrats episodes off of xbla are they timed?

Once you buy something it's always yours. You could delete things you don't play that often and redownload it for free whenever you do. But that's alot of work.

DZBricktop

buy a bigger hard drive and recover your profile on the new hardrive. then you can get all the games you purchased for free. the only thing you will lose is your saved game data. im not 100% sure but i think you can get a memory card to transfer the game data

buy a bigger hard drive and recover your profile on the new hardrive. then you can get all the games you purchased for free. the only thing you will lose is your saved game data. im not 100% sure but i think you can get a memory card to transfer the game data

Saulgill

I would just get the 120 gig if you can. I was hesitant as well, but once I got the HD, it was well worth the cost. So much extra space with plenty to spare

Two things:

1) If you're going to get a 120gb hdd, get it off amazon.com. They have used ones for $80

2) If you don't want another hard drive, get this: http://us.codejunkies.com/Products/XB360-MAX-Memory-4GB___EF000778.aspx

That plus a 16GB micro sd card would be more than enough space

Oh boy.. I'm gonna hate re-downloading every damn add-ons I have. Halo 3, Modern Warfare, Fallout 3, and World at War.D0ub13_5c0r3

buy a bigger hard drive and recover your profile on the new hardrive. then you can get all the games you purchased for free. the only thing you will lose is your saved game data. im not 100% sure but i think you can get a memory card to transfer the game data

Saulgill

Oh boy.. I'm gonna hate re-downloading every damn add-ons I have. Halo 3, Modern Warfare, Fallout 3, and World at War.D0ub13_5c0r3

Well I find it being cheaper to actually just go buy the game in Gamestop, Gamecrazy, etc. because it actually is cheaper. Vegas 2 on GOD is 29.99 and I found it in a store for 24.99. Not much difference but you could buy something else with the extra 5$ you saved.

I notice a lot of hate towards Games on Demand haha, I understand they can be found cheaper. I chose to pay the little extra for the convenience of not having to leave my apartment to go buy it, or wait a week to have it arrive in the mail. The only drawback in my opinion is forgoing the extra space on the hard drive (trading them in gives you back almost nothing, so the replay value on ANY game is worth the $4.00 gamestop is going to give me, and any game that will net me more than that I'm going to likely keep because it's a great game. I also fundamentally have something against used games as a game developer myself, but that's another argument).

I guess the 120GB HD is definintely worth it from these comments, I think I'm going to grab one off Amazon. Thanks for the help!

Once you buy something it's always yours. You could delete things you don't play that often and redownload it for free whenever you do. But that's alot of work.

DZBricktop

If you buy a 120 gig HDD new it comes with a transfer cable, why all the confusion?!

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Once you buy something it's always yours. You could delete things you don't play that often and redownload it for free whenever you do. But that's alot of work.

cametall

You can. You have to go to xbox.com. Under "My Account" is an option for "Purchase History". Your purchase history has a list of everything you've bought from Xbox Live with an option to add it to your Queue again.

But like many here have already said, buying the 120 gig HDD is the best way to do it. Buy it new, it comes with a transfer cable. It's easy. There's nothing to be worried about. There are a few minor catches though. It won't transfer Original Xbox gamesaves, and not all music you burned to the HDD from a CD-R. You would also have to do a "license transfer" of all your DLC if you want to play it OFFLINE. If you're always connected online, you'll have no problems. License Transfer can be found HERE if you need it.

2: why waste money on games on demand? paying full retail price for Data when u can get copy most likely cheaper have the disk and not worry about spcae k2theswiss

I couldn't agree more. When you buy games on demand you don't even really own them.