Using your 360 HD on a friend's 360

AuburnTiger

Long story short, my 360 E-74'd me, sent it off. Wanting my Halo fix.

Any potential problems in borrowing my friend's 360, bringing it over, popping my HD in and playing Halo?

AuburnTiger

Anyone?

joshgotro

This is possible.

Works fine.

Krathoon

Yeah. You should be able to swap it out. They could not sell drives if it was bound to a certain box. Essentially, you are carrying your account to another machine. I do wonder, however, if it would cause problems if you buy a game through it. I would avoid that, just in case.

Moe Fwacky

It will work fine, I have a friend who brings his HD around to friends' houses to play his DLC or just use his save games for some of his games that he brings with him as well. It's pretty much today's equivalent of taking your memory card out of one machine and using it in another,.

edit: also DLC is coded to the Console ID and your Live ID. Only one of these has to be valid, so if you buy DLC on your friend's 360 with your Live ID on your HD, you will have to be logged into Live for it to work on your 360 when you get it back.

Synthesis

I've done it before without problems. In almost all cases, online Xbox 360s are nearly interchangeable if you swap the hard drives.

That being said, I would avoid buying anything. That shouldn't be too hard.

DeathPrawn

Synthesis wrote: »

I've done it before without problems. In almost all cases, online Xbox 360s are nearly interchangeable if you swap the hard drives.

That being said, I would avoid buying anything. That shouldn't be too hard.

This post is truth. Bolding the important part.

Esh

Sort of a related question, I haven't had a 360 in over a year, but if I buy another and renew my Live subscription, will everything I downloaded and paid for before be available to download again free of charge if I use the same ID?

AuburnTiger

Esh wrote: »

Sort of a related question, I haven't had a 360 in over a year, but if I buy another and renew my Live subscription, will everything I downloaded and paid for before be available to download again free of charge if I use the same ID?

Yep. It'll be tied to your original gamertag and your original console. If you go to your download history, you'll be able to see everything you've purchased and re-download it.

There's a DRM tool online that will allow you to transfer the license from your old console to your new console as well, so you won't have to be signed into Live to access your stuff. I don't know the address offhand, though.

JustinSane07

Unless it's no longer available.

God damn Dropkick Murphys free pack being taken down from XBL for GH3 after I wiped out my HDD by mistake.

Willeth

JustinSane07 wrote: »

Unless it's no longer available.

God damn Dropkick Murphys free pack being taken down from XBL for GH3 after I wiped out my HDD by mistake.

You should still be able to download it from your download history on xbox.com. The DRM tool is at xbox.com/drm, by the way.

Local H Jay

what kills me is now that i'm offline and on a friend's box, i can't use all my map packs for various games

*sigh* atleast i still got L4D survival mode

Dodge Aspen

Okay, so this seems like the XBL questions thread, now.

At one point, I had Hexic HD on my system. I think it came with the Hard Drive I bought with my Arcade Unit. I played it for 5 minutes, and got one achievement. Now, I want to add to that one achievement, but cannot play the game, and cannot find it on Marketplace to download it. I guess it was discontinued or something since Hexic 2 came out. Is there any way I can get this game back, or am I SOL because I didn't actually download it?

DolbyDigital

Funny. I have the same situation. Last of the people I know to get RROD'd.

I believe the games you have ripped to your HD will not run off your HD when it is on a different console. It will run off the Disc.

I will look for this link to transfer your license to new consoles, as I will want to do this too. I don't want to have to be online to access my stuffs once I get my new unit.

By the way, I am in Canada. They replace units here, as opposed to refurbing, right? Does that mean I will get a Falcon, or newer chipset? I have an Elite from '07 now.

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Found the link:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox360/licensemigration/faq.htm

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Neat video of the Major explaining how to do the transfer:

http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/D42744BA-71F6-4710-B397-FEF9D7A49802/0/vidlicenseTransferNXEHi.asx

HOWEVER I just read that if you have your XBOX repaired, the license transfer is part of the repair process, so you don't have to do it in this case. You do, however, need to REDOWNLOAD ALL OF YOUR ARCADE GAMES AND DLC. That is a huge pain in the ass....

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Willeth

Dodge Aspen wrote: »

Okay, so this seems like the XBL questions thread, now.

At one point, I had Hexic HD on my system. I think it came with the Hard Drive I bought with my Arcade Unit. I played it for 5 minutes, and got one achievement. Now, I want to add to that one achievement, but cannot play the game, and cannot find it on Marketplace to download it. I guess it was discontinued or something since Hexic 2 came out. Is there any way I can get this game back, or am I SOL because I didn't actually download it?

Why can't you play the game? Did you delete it?

Hexic 1 was never on Marketplace. You only got it by buying a hard drive. If you deleted it, you'll have to get on to MS support and wrangle with them to get a code for it. I did it, and it was surprisingly painless. Other people have done it and given up after months. There's a gigantic thread on the Xbox forums about it.

Dodge Aspen

Willeth wrote: »

Dodge Aspen wrote: »

Okay, so this seems like the XBL questions thread, now.

At one point, I had Hexic HD on my system. I think it came with the Hard Drive I bought with my Arcade Unit. I played it for 5 minutes, and got one achievement. Now, I want to add to that one achievement, but cannot play the game, and cannot find it on Marketplace to download it. I guess it was discontinued or something since Hexic 2 came out. Is there any way I can get this game back, or am I SOL because I didn't actually download it?

Why can't you play the game? Did you delete it?

Hexic 1 was never on Marketplace. You only got it by buying a hard drive. If you deleted it, you'll have to get on to MS support and wrangle with them to get a code for it. I did it, and it was surprisingly painless. Other people have done it and given up after months. There's a gigantic thread on the Xbox forums about it.

I must have deleted it, cause I sure don't have it anymore. So, I can try and fight MS for it? Geez. It's Hexic. Not sure if I care that much. Thanks for the info.