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Title: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: Jay on 11 January 2012, 19:42
Operation 'installationz' complete in 30 seconds (wife wanted to do it, but told her it was complicated and that I'd best do it)  :grin: transferring from the internal 4Gb almost complete. Lovely jubbely.

Almost tempted to start buying these hard drives, take it out the caddy and flog them on as they're cheaper than normal 2.5" drives :shocked:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 11 January 2012, 19:51
Can you do a Picture "How I did this incredible feat of engineering" guide.


Just pre-empting the next question.

ta.



Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: Jay on 11 January 2012, 20:19
I even took a video, pre-empting such a silly question :kiss: Just need to edit the audio out of it as my daughter is saying "what's that? what's that? Is it broke? are you fixing it daddy?" :laugh:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: cняis on 11 January 2012, 21:35
What about a guide for the older 360 HDDs?  :kiss:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: JC on 11 January 2012, 21:37
you need to do this for what reason  :huh:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 11 January 2012, 21:46
What about a guide for the older 360 HDDs?  :kiss:

Seriously?

They clip in and out from the side. One button.

 :huh:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: cняis on 11 January 2012, 21:50
What about a guide for the older 360 HDDs?  :kiss:

Seriously?

They clip in and out from the side. One button.

 :huh:

I thought he was on about using a standard 2.5" HDD and getting it to work in an xbox cradle....

misunderstood OP  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: Jay on 12 January 2012, 00:25
you need to do this for what reason  :huh:

Got a 4Gb xbox bundle with the Kinect last year, bought a 120Gb hard drive in a xbox caddy to slot in. Now I don't have to delete my saved games. and can have all my sh!t installed on it, like Forza content I had to skip out on (not that I played it much, but maybe I would have had I had better content) because I didn't have the capacity :smiley: and all the apps with the new xbox dashboard. and the emulation for original xbox games (Sega games pack here I come!)... the list goes on really :smiley: Got 4Gb on board, 120Gb showing as a proper hard drive in it now and the 512Mb Cloud storage. Sorted.


Saving / loading and even exiting / entering buildings in Skyrim is faster now  :shocked:  :cool:


The installation of the hard drive in this EggBox S is easy, turn upside down & slide button, pull up panel, insert drive, put panel back in place.
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: dan_apps on 12 January 2012, 22:28
sounds complicated :grin:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: JC on 13 January 2012, 18:31
oh, so if you bought a cheap x box you need to do this  :laugh:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: cняis on 13 January 2012, 18:53
oh, so if you bought a cheap x box you need to do this  :laugh:

Today's lesson? Don't penny pinch!
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 13 January 2012, 19:21
I'm tempted to do this as 4G's are quite cheap, but I keep reading about the new XBox coming this summer.


Ohhhh!

Just have to make do with my 60G for now.



Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: Jay on 13 January 2012, 20:42
I only bought it for the Kinect bit... which has barely been used :laugh:
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 14 January 2012, 15:45
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/xbox-4gb-console-117-48-delivered-from-microsoft-store-1115528

Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: golf-sib on 18 January 2012, 12:41
Thought new xbox is only going to be announced in q1 next year and only hit the market in 2014... or something I read on engaget, plus they will be building a new and better kinect2 for it.
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: Jay on 18 January 2012, 18:43
Not entirely sure they're building a Kinect 2, they've just announced that on Feb 1 you can buy kinect for your PC  :smiley: It'd be a kick in the nuts for all kinect owning customers if they did that.
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: cняis on 18 January 2012, 19:08
Not entirely sure they're building a Kinect 2, they've just announced that on Feb 1 you can buy kinect for your PC  :smiley: It'd be a kick in the nuts for all kinect owning customers if they did that.

I've seen a vid of a hacked Kinect sensor (using dev tools) being used to control windows 7, Minority Report stylee.

Was impressive, although a bit buggy.
Title: Re: Xbox hard drive upgrade
Post by: Jay on 18 January 2012, 19:16
Yeah that's a bit bodgey dodgy, you can preorder a proper Kinect sensor for Windows on Amazon from Microsoft, to be released 1st Feb :cool: