copy xbox hd to pc?

Drunen · 29 Jan 2006 at 10:07

in the manual it says that you can copy saved games / demos / trailers etc to your connected pc to save space.

i cannot figure out how. has anyone done it yet?

PuncH · 29 Jan 2006 at 11:22

where in the manual does it say that?

PuncH · 29 Jan 2006 at 11:25

oops.

NokkonWud · 29 Jan 2006 at 11:40

you can't.

As far as I know, the only way to do it is to convert the memory card into a USB dongle.

Drunen · 29 Jan 2006 at 11:57

neat sigs - how do you get them?

TechnoCorruption · 29 Jan 2006 at 12:24

Fill in the details on the form here and it gives you a link

http://www.glop.org/gamercard/

laiman · 29 Jan 2006 at 18:07

I would assume that it can be done using a usb flash drive, haven't done any game saves but I know the 360 reads files that are on my flash drive no reason why t5he reverse won't work.

Memphis · 29 Jan 2006 at 18:11

laiman said:
I would assume that it can be done using a usb flash drive, haven't done any game saves but I know the 360 reads files that are on my flash drive no reason why t5he reverse won't work.

There is a very good reason why it won't work.
Microsoft has not included write support on the 360, apparently for security reasons. It's what is stopping us transferring PGR3 photos to PC.

Aspect · 29 Jan 2006 at 18:54

Could you plug the HD directly into the pc with a usb extension cable?

Memphis · 29 Jan 2006 at 19:07

Aspect said:
Could you plug the HD directly into the pc with a usb extension cable?

The 360's hard disk is not USB, it uses a laptop SATA disk. The next hurdle is the proprietary file system used. It can be read through a Linux OS after quite a lot of fiddling but for the effort required, you may as well just accept it's not possible.

Aspect · 29 Jan 2006 at 19:47

Memphis said:
The 360's hard disk is not USB, it uses a laptop SATA disk. The next hurdle is the proprietary file system used. It can be read through a Linux OS after quite a lot of fiddling but for the effort required, you may as well just accept it's not possible.

Fair enough.

laiman · 29 Jan 2006 at 22:12

Memphis said:
There is a very good reason why it won't work.
Microsoft has not included write support on the 360, apparently for security reasons. It's what is stopping us transferring PGR3 photos to PC.

Ahh, my mistake havent tried writing anything, well thats a bit poo then!