Upgrading 20GB HD to 60GB

Someone tell me I'm wrong. After doing a little research I've discovered that the new live starter pack with the 60GB HD that's available is only really good for Arcade console owners as the pack doesn't include a cable to transfer data from your old 20GB drive to the new drive. WTF?

So all of us 20GB owners are screwed? We can't upgrade without losing all our save games and offline profiles?

I see a place on the Xbox site which allows you to request a data transfer kit for free but it seems to be geared toward those people who are upgrading to the 120GB elite system. The form you fill out requires the serial numbers of your old 20GB system and the new elite system. So I suspect they'd give you a hard time if you wanted to get this kit to use on the new 60GB starter pack.

Why has MS completely ignored the masses of people who want the larger hard drive to start taking advantage of the install to hard drive option in the NXE???

It almost seems like the best option is to purchase a 512MB memory card in addition to the starter pack so you can transfer your offline profiles and some saves to the memory card. But now you're talking about a $150 expenditure to transfer some of your data. And then what about the licenses? Will those get transfered when you recover your Live Gamertag?

This is a very disappointing proposition. :(

same situation

i bought the 60gb HDD and after realizing MS wouldn't send me a transfer cable because it wasn't an Elite console, i returned the HDD. I even looked on ebay to purchase a transfer cable, only to find they were selling for $70-$80....it would cost more to buy the 60GB HDD + transfer cable than just getting the 120gb with the cable.

for your sake i hope you can get the cable from MS...me, after a LOT ot research i gave up.

I gave up and just got a memory unit and returned it the next day. Yeah it is kind of sneaky but they make it way to hard to just get the cable. I had to phone them twice and then fax the request just to wait for it to get rejected because I did not have a serial number for an elit console ( I just bought the 60gig drive). I could not recover my profile on the new drive because my Live ID is long gone.

Now it is done.

Why don't you just buy a 120GB HDD? I bought one last week and it included the transfer CD and cable, it took like 40 mins. to transfer all the data from the old drive to the new one. So far I've installed 6 games and still have 60BG free.

Try craigslist....thats what I did...bought myself a 60GB HDD and transferred all my saves....

I'm now selling my old 20GB HDD on craigslist too...

I went from 20 GB to 120 Gb and they sent me 2 cables... dumbasses....sweet1234

ok you're exactly right. A very funny business decision if I say so myself. This is an attempt to make users buy the 120GB HDD because it comes with the transfer cable. Well, they got me. I just shelled out the dough because it wasn't worth my hassle to find a transfer cable individually; plus more space couldn't hard right? The 60GB starter kit is $100 and the 120GB HDD is $150. For $50 more you get 2x the space.

I understand this is exactly what Microsoft wanted me to do, but at the same time it did provide a need. I've downloaded about 6 games, have a ton of music, have all my games saves, etc. So basically you have two options 1) buy the 60Gb with no transfer cable (wtf Microsoft) and call MS maybe they will give you one maybe they won't or 2) just spend the extra $50 and be done with it. It's a decision that you must make but if you don't want to spend the xtra $50 I totally understand.

MSofts Customer service is a joke.Fakenamelmao

I guess I see MS wisdom finally. They expect that owners of systems with Hard drives would want to upgrade to the 120 GB version to make their system like the elite model.

The 60GB upgrade is obviously geared just toward arcade owners that want to move into the hard drive model and are on a budget.

Personally I don't plan on using the system to store movies or music so I just wanted a little bigger hard drive to allow me to install a few games to the hard drive.

I can pick up the 120GB drive online for less than $130 so perhaps I should just do that.

Once again I've succumbed to M$ and bought another overprice peripheral for the Xbox. I went ahead and picked up the 120GB hard disk upgrade for $150 at a local Best Buy. I thought about getting it online for $130 shipped but wasn't comfortable with taking the risk of shipping the sensative device to my house so I opted to pay a little more and get it local where I could easily return it. Stupid paranoia I know, but oh well.

This is twice now that M$ has impressed me with the product working exactly as advertised and with no hiccups so far *knock on wood*. I plugged the new drive into the Xbox via the transfer cable and ran the transfer disc and just 35min later the new drive was up and running with all my old content intact. I installed three games last night and they all ran great.

Hopefully this will give me a little quieter operation with a little less heat and that will help prolong the life of my Xbox which is a year old already.