Xbox 360 Slim unboxing and transfer to 250GB hard drive
To my surprise when I got home yesterday, I had this funny thing waiting for me that looked kind of like a new Xbox 360 S console! I decided to do a quick video to show the data transfer* process and also to show off the Xbox 360 S compared to a regular Elite console.
I hope you enjoy the video! *Kingdom of Keflings and Hexic HD are preinstalled on the hard drive.
I do want to clear up one thing for people who have emailed me asking. “Kinect Ready” on the Xbox 360 S does not mean that it comes with Kinect. What it means is that it is built to support Kinect without the need for any additional power source. For those of you with current Xbox 360 consoles, when you purchase Kinect it will include an extra power source for you to use. Xbox 360 S owners will not need that. They can simply “connect” Kinect to their console and get their motion on.
[Update] – If your transfer cable isn’t prompting you for the transfer and it recognizes your old hard drive as a USB attachment, then unfortunately you’ll need a new or different transfer cable.
Video: Xbox 360 Slim unboxing, transfer to 250GB hard drive and comparison
July 7th, 2010 at 7:28 am
it’s probably the transfer cable.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:52 am
DO YA GET THE TRANSFER CABLE WITH THE NEW CONSLE PLEASE TELL ME
July 8th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
no you dont
July 14th, 2010 at 8:00 am
does the transfer include xbox live membership?
July 14th, 2010 at 9:09 am
your Xbox Live membership has nothing to do with the transfer. your membership will go unchanged and remain the same as it was after transferring.
July 24th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Deac, Kingdom of Keflings didn’t come pre-installed with my console just the demo. What gives?
July 24th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
well yeah that’s what it is…just a trial preloaded lol
July 26th, 2010 at 4:41 am
why dont you just recover your gamertag?
p.s nice video
July 26th, 2010 at 8:32 am
recovering your Gamertag doesn’t transfer your data.
July 27th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
oh yeah, ok i gotcha Deac.
August 17th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
So I guess since my first cable didn’t work out, I have to try a new one… But isn’t there something about a disk?
August 18th, 2010 at 12:37 am
[...] new hard drives will not come with a transfer kit and will not be compatible (obviously) with the original Xbox 360 [...]
September 5th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Well, i just got the new xbox 360 S and a transfer cable but the only thing it wont transfer are the installed games (A.K.A MW 2 that installed onto the hard drive since it has alot of scratches)
is there another way to do this?
else i will have to buy a new copy :/
January 18th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
hey i connected my old harddrive to my new 360 s and never got a transfer notifaction but i only have the 4gb i just wanted to see if i would get the notifaction
April 9th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Does this cable work both ways? As in, can I plug up the transfer cable to the hard drive and the Xbox 360 S, and it would recognize it as a hard-drive? Or is it just “Okay, there are your files, this cord is useless now!”?
May 20th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
thanks man that helped
May 20th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
no prob barnos..glad it helped.
September 6th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Can you transfer your stored music from an old hard drive to the new one?
September 6th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
yep you can.
September 7th, 2011 at 8:54 am
Thanks.