External HD Question (PLEASE ANSWER IF YOU KNOW!!)

I recently bought an external HD for my Xbox 360 Arcade. I was planning to pass all of my profile and game data to it and after doing this, I would erase everything from my Xbox. Would all the save datas from the all my games load properly in the HD after this? Also, would my profile achievements for the games I played be saved or would I need to get all the achievements from the beggining without any gamescore?

I recently bought an external HD for my Xbox 360 Arcade. I was planning to pass all of my profile and game data to it and after doing this, I would erase everything from my Xbox. Would all the save datas from the all my games load properly in the HD after this? Also, would my profile achievements for the games I played be saved or would I need to get all the achievements from the beggining without any gamescore?

mario479

You can use your external drive, but you can only use 16GB of the drive for the 360. You should be able to transfer everything to the external drive and operate as normal. If you have connected to XBL your achievements will be fine, they sync with their servers and stay there no matter what you do with your hard drive or Xbox. I think you'll be disappointed by using the external drive. I'd say use a 16GB USB drive and move your saves and gamertag to that so you can easily take it to friends houses with you. I use an 8GB and have all my saves, even some map packs and my GT on there so I can go to different 360's in my house and take it on the road with me easily. You could use 2 16GB USB drives to give you more space, but they wont allow anything more than that. Even if your external drive is 1TB, it will only format 16GB worth sadly.

When I use my EHD does it erase everything on it, should I back up the info and then hook it up to my xbox....and then afterwards put the info back on the EHD? Otherwise what is the other way to do it ....buying Microsoft's 250 gb drive? Is 16gb generally good enough for basic game saves, free demos, etc..?

you will have to format your 16gb external hdd/flash card

meaning you will lose all the data on it.