Bought a new 60GB Pro console and sold the 20GB Premium to a mate. Just received the transfer kit and just curious - I understand that the transfer kit copies EVERYTHING over from the old drive. I only want my game saves, but thats fine. However, does it delete existing game saves on the new 60GB? Reason I ask is while I waited for the kit to arrive I started playing single player COD:WOW and am almost finished, and would hate to have to restart again if the transfer kit formats the new 60Gb drive.
Any ideas?

Yes, the transfer nukes both disks.
The receiving disk gets cleaned before anything gets copied--the older disk afterwards.
Might want to move those game saves to a memory card...

How do you get one of those cables?

How do you get one of those cables?

supposedly MS will send you one for free if you can give two xbox serials as proof that you're switching xboxs otherwise they assume you should have a cable since they come in most of the retail HDD packages though teh 60 gig does not since it's meant to "complete" a core xbox. I have mine from my 120- gig HDD it's useless once you use it(it counts as a license transfer which you are only allowed one per year). so PM me and maybe we can work something out.

MarkH, make sure to come back here and tell us if it even works. My understanding was that the Transfer Cable will only work from a 20GB to a 120GB drive and will not work with a 20-20 or 20-60GB transfer.

MarkH, make sure to come back here and tell us if it even works. My understanding was that the Transfer Cable will only work from a 20GB to a 120GB drive and will not work with a 20-20 or 20-60GB transfer.

It bloody better or I will not be a happy camper! Ive got about 60 hours invested in Fallout 3 never mind the other games! If it definately doesnt work with the 60GB drives I would never have up/down graded in the first place.

Copying over now, so far so good. 20 minutes to go. Will report back later.

Well after just over an hour I can confirm that using the transfer kit from a 20GB to a 60GB drive WORKS.
And yes it formats the new drive so my COD5 save game was lost but more importantly all my other games saves off the old 20GB were saved.

My understanding was that the Transfer Cable will only work from a 20GB to a 120GB drive and will not work with a 20-20 or 20-60GB transfer.

The MS documentation that comes with the kit explicitly lists 20-20 transfers as supported, along with 20-120. Nice to see 20-60 also works.
Now all we need is a guinea pig to report on going from 60 to 120... ;)

The MS documentation that comes with the kit explicitly lists 20-20 transfers as supported, along with 20-120. Nice to see 20-60 also works.
Now all we need is a guinea pig to report on going from 60 to 120... ;)

I see no reason why it wouldn't.

can i please borrow this cable from someone? i can include a check for postage when i send it back, if needed.

thanks


The MS documentation that comes with the kit explicitly lists 20-20 transfers as supported, along with 20-120. Nice to see 20-60 also works.
Now all we need is a guinea pig to report on going from 60 to 120... ;)

Important Content can only ever be moved from a smaller source drive to a destination drive that is the same size or larger and only one time. For example, the following hard drive pairings allow transfer from source to (">") destination: 20GB > 20GB
20GB > 60GB
20GB > 120GB
60GB > 60GB
60GB > 120GB
120GB > 120GB

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937279/en-us

They sent me an extra transfer kit so you can just have it. PM me.

They sent me an extra transfer kit so you can just have it. PM me.
thanks, PM sent