360 Elite Data Migration

[Dave]

Hi all

I'm going to pick up an elite sometime this week and I was wondering about the data migration cable that Microsoft provide. At the moment my saved games are on my stepbrothers' Premium console - can I transfer my saves/profile across without touching his saves/profile?

This is just using the cable, and no extra stuff like the Xport 360.

Cheers

 

[Dave]

Rubbish. Looks like I'll lose my saves then.

I take it I can recover my Xbox tag on my new console - my gamertag won't have an "affinity" to my stepbrothers console will it?

 

[Dave]

Surely you could still migrate everything over, then just delete his profile/stuff off of your elite - or does it 'cut and paste' the files from one drive to another, rather than making a copy?

Scort.

As far as I'm aware it copies and then deletes the original ones. So my stepbrother would be slightly miffed with me

Could you not use a memory card to xfer your saved games?

Yeah, I'm thinking of going down the memory stick root, but getting one second hand and then flogging it again as the prices are extortionate on them. How do you copy saves across with a memory stick? Is it a simple click on the thing you want - copy - chuck it in the elite and copy again? Cheers

 

[Dave]

Dave - Just copy your saves from 20GB HD to memory unit then transfer saves to 120GB HD from memory unit, Very simple

Yeah, that's what I'll probably do. Like I say, I'll keep my eye for second hand ones - the brand new ones are daylight robbery. Shame you can't just use a generic USB stick really!

Cheers everyone - hopefully picking up my Elite on Tuesday. 32" LCD comes through on Tues as well