#DOWNLOAD GAME TO FLASH DRIVE XBOX 360 CODE#
Your post will end up in the spam filter, where it will stay forever. Answer (1 of 2): Just connect your external drive to your console, go into System/Storage/Games & move the game code (and saved game, if you want) to the external drive. Don't use URL shorteners (including youtube ones).If you're looking for a swap or trade, please use /r/gameswap or /r/GameTrade. If you want to give something away, please use /r/playitforward instead. No links to Craigslist, Kijiji, Ebay or any other similar sites. This includes, but is not limited to Xbox Live accounts, MS Points, games. No advertising, selling, trading or giving away of ANYTHING.Absolutely NO affiliate links as posts or comments.Discussions and links concerning the repair of broken consoles is allowed. Any direct links to warez, game hacks, or console hacks will be removed. Check XBOX Live status here before posting!.Note: We are not affiliated with Microsoft in any official capacity News, reviews, previews, rumors, screenshots, videos and more! Select those, choose Copy and then select your USB flash drive (which will now also be called Memory Unit, but have a flash drive icon).Ĭongratulations, your save games are now safer from hardware failure.Everything and anything related to the Xbox 360. Select it, and your save games should be visible. Time to back-up your save games.ĭepending on whether your Xbox is using a hard drive or just has a memory module on board, you will need to select Hard Drive or Memory Unit.Ĭhoose Games and Apps, and find the game that you wish to backup the saves for. Once done, you will be taken back to the Storage settings. The Xbox will then set up the USB drive for its own use. Select USB Storage Device and then Configure Now (or "Customize" if you'd prefer to only use a portion of the drive). Sign into your gamer profile, insert the drive in a USB port on your Xbox 360, and head to Settings in your dashboard. Once you've got something that fits the criteria, it's time to get to work.
The drive must be empty the Xbox will wipe all contents before using.If you want to back-up your save games to a USB flash drive you can, but there are a few conditions as it seems Microsoft wants to protect its sales of Xbox hard drives: You can turn the console off if you like, too - the Xbox will enter low power mode and continue transferring the save before it completely powers down. The location of save games is completely independent of where the game data itself is stored. If yours is larger than that, youll want to partition it first so that there is a 32GB partition. Note that the maximum size supported by the Xbox 360 is 32GB. When playing a game, you can also select the cloud as your storage instead of your hard drive - just keep in mind that the game save is not uploaded to the cloud until you've finished playing your game. Most games are 5-7GB, so youll need to make sure that your USB stick can accommodate that. You can then copy or move save games to the cloud by selecting your Hard Drive or Memory unit, selecting the appropriate game, selecting the game save, choosing Copy or Move, then selecting Cloud Saved Games. Select Cloud Saved Games, then Enable Cloud Saved Games. If you have these things, you can enable cloud storage by signing into your gamer profile, then going to Settings in the dashboard, selecting the System tile and then selecting Storage. You'll also need half a gigabyte of storage on your hard drive to act as a local cache. Sadly, you need to be a Xbox Live Gold member to use this that is, you'll need to set up a paid subscription. The first is cloud, where your games are saved online and can be downloaded to any console you log in to.
The Xbox 360 offers two alternatives for saving your games somewhere other than the console. You've likely amassed a whole heap of unlocked game modes, vehicles, weapons and more in your games but what happens if your hard drive dies?