upgrading to elite and need help

I am getting ready to purchase an elite mainly because of the bigger harddrive. However, in my first 360, I have my live profile AND many files AND XBL arcade games that I have spent a lot of money on.

I know the transfer cable can be given for free, right? But I heard that it cannot transfer xbl games. Is there anyway that I can transfer my profile AND also transfer my xbl content and games, or atleast get all the mspoints back??

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find it in the boards.

Thanks in advance.

The digital downloads are locked to the console, not the HD. Why don't you just purchase the 120 GB HD and copy the content over with the supplied cable and use the same console? Without using HDMI, the elite clearly isn't worth it.Flavour666

That's not true at all... every one of my downloads came over just fine and I didn't have to redownload anything.

thanks for the info from both of you. I will just get the transfer cable, I don't care if I can't do it unless I'm on live, because I always am anyway:)

Thanks again to both!

The downloads aren't locked on to the console but instead on microsoft's online servers. So basically just recover your profile on the elite via xbox live and just redownload all of your stuff from the marketplace. If you already bought the items previously that's on record and you don't need to pay again.MJ0LNIR_SPARTAN

Ok so what your basically saying is that the HD basically contains game saves. But everything like your Gamer ID tag, downloads that you buy, credit card info, they are all in Microsofts servers.

Am I right?

[QUOTE="Flavour666"]The digital downloads are locked to the console, not the HD. Why don't you just purchase the 120 GB HD and copy the content over with the supplied cable and use the same console? Without using HDMI, the elite clearly isn't worth it.LOEAnubis

That's not true at all... every one of my downloads came over just fine and I didn't have to redownload anything.

Here's the issue (from what I've heard): You will be required to connect to Xbox Live in order to play any XBLA games that are transferred. Am I right?