xbox 360 usb flash memory

[segagamer]

I need help with using an HP 8 GB USB flash memory on my Xbox360 Arcade console. It is brand new and I configured it for use on the 360 so I can transfer game saves between my own console and my brother's Elite console. However, when I plugged it into his Elite, the system asked me to configure the flash memory. I thought I had already done that on my own console, but I did it anyway. I then copied a few game save files from his Elite onto the USB flash memory. When I plugged it into my own Arcade console, I was prompted again to configure it for use with the 360. I really don't understand why I cannot use a standard USB flash memory device between 2 different 360 consoles for transferring game save data. Am I doing something wrong here or is it not possible to use standard USB flash memory devices? Any help would be appreciated.

[Mayhem]

Could be fake. Also might not be good enough for using on the 360. Only things I can think of currently.

[Gamevet]

I need help with using an HP 8 GB USB flash memory on my Xbox360 Arcade console. It is brand new and I configured it for use on the 360 so I can transfer game saves between my own console and my brother's Elite console. However, when I plugged it into his Elite, the system asked me to configure the flash memory. I thought I had already done that on my own console, but I did it anyway. I then copied a few game save files from his Elite onto the USB flash memory. When I plugged it into my own Arcade console, I was prompted again to configure it for use with the 360. I really don't understand why I cannot use a standard USB flash memory device between 2 different 360 consoles for transferring game save data. Am I doing something wrong here or is it not possible to use standard USB flash memory devices? Any help would be appreciated.

I believe your problem is related to the user id. You have to save your user data on the USB flash drive, to be able to use it between 2 different 360s. I do that with my Elite and Arcade Xbox 360.

[segagamer]

I believe your problem is related to the user id. You have to save your user data on the USB flash drive, to be able to use it between 2 different 360s. I do that with my Elite and Arcade Xbox 360.

Would I need to install my user data on my brother's Elite as well before I can transfer game saves? As I remember, my brother's Elite shows my player profile as Player 2, not the profile I have created on my Arcade 360.

[Gamevet]

Would I need to install my user data on my brother's Elite as well before I can transfer game saves? As I remember, my brother's Elite shows my player profile as Player 2, not the profile I have created on my Arcade 360.

Your brother would have to create his own user profile on a USB thumb drive. You cannot share save files with that of your brother. Each save file is linked to the user account, so any files your brother transfers to your 360, would be for his use only. MS put this in place, to keep players from using other user's data to inflate their scores/achievements.

[ProgrammingAce]

While it's true you can't share save files between profiles, I don't think that's what's happening here. It sounds like each console wants to reformat the USB drive every time it's plugged in. That would imply to me that the drive itself is defective; or at the very least, isn't compatible with the 360.

There's a couple of reasons that could be, some USB drives handle the master boot record in a "funny" way, I doubt those devices would be compatible with the 360. Any USB drive that says it supports U3 certainly won't be compatible with the Xbox.

[skaar]

Make sure both 360 consoles are on the same version of their OS/Dashboard. I had this happen when one console was missing updates. The new cloud storage option and support for profiles between consoles has been a long time coming but is finally here on the latest dashboard.

[BlastProcessing402]

Your brother would have to create his own user profile on a USB thumb drive. You cannot share save files with that of your brother. Each save file is linked to the user account, so any files your brother transfers to your 360, would be for his use only. MS put this in place, to keep players from using other user's data to inflate their scores/achievements.

It depends on the game. Some games let you transfer saves between accounts, but include a flag or something so that if you load that save (or any saves made during the same session after loading that save) you can't get achievements.

[Gamevet]

While it's true you can't share save files between profiles, I don't think that's what's happening here. It sounds like each console wants to reformat the USB drive every time it's plugged in. That would imply to me that the drive itself is defective; or at the very least, isn't compatible with the 360.

There's a couple of reasons that could be, some USB drives handle the master boot record in a "funny" way, I doubt those devices would be compatible with the 360. Any USB drive that says it supports U3 certainly won't be compatible with the Xbox.

If he unplugs the device from his 360, powers the 360 down and reboots, he would know if there was something wrong with the USB thumb drive, if his own 360 doesn't read it when he plugs it back in. I'd say it's a user issue if one 360 reads the device, but plugging it into another causes havok.

I know you can't take your HDD and plug it into another person's 360, because of user ID's and the drive being tagged for that particular 360.



It depends on the game. Some games let you transfer saves between accounts, but include a flag or something so that if you load that save (or any saves made during the same session after loading that save) you can't get achievements.

I guess that depends on how you're transferring that save file.


Segagamer, you should check this out. http://www.gamefront.com/how-to-transfer-old-xbox-360-data-to-a-new-xbox-360-slim/

[Leo_A]

I know you can't take your HDD and plug it into another person's 360, because of user ID's and the drive being tagged for that particular 360.

That's not correct. You can do exactly that without any issues. Hard drives aren't tied to a particular 360.

Of course, you'll have to be logged onto Xbox Live to access your DLC when you do it (unless you transfer the licenses). But beyond that and disc installations being locked to a single console, there aren't any limitations that I'm aware of.

[segagamer]

Thanks for the responses. I think I need to explain my purpose for the game save file transfer more clearly. I got Sonic Generations for Xmas and started to play the game on my brother's Elite console, which is located at our parents'. I have put in about 1 hr play time and have cleared several levels, and thought that I could transfer the game save file so I can continue playing the game on my own Arcade console using the same save file. Now I realize that my own console has the latest OS with the cloud option while my brother's console has the previous version of the OS w/o cloud. So the next time I am there, I will be sure to update his console's OS so it is the same as mine.

I was also thinking that perhaps I need to create my own profile on his console, since I discovered that I cannot copy my user profile from my console onto his. Would I have needed to create my own profile before playing Sonic Generations for the first time? I have a generic profile named Player 2. Would I need to customize it so it mirrors on own console's user profile? Also, it would be great if I could create custom characters and transfer to the USB device, so I can continue to improve their stats on my own console, like custom characters in Top Spin 4 or Virtua Fighter 5, and then bring them over to the Elite console.

I am not trying to do anything with these files that would compromise any of the scoreboards and etc out there. In fact, I normally do not even have my 360 console connected to the Internet most of the time, since I do not play online games and occasionally check out the demos and bonus content on Xbox Live. At our parents', we do not even have Internet access, since our parents are not computer literate. As for transferring files, all I am doing is go to the memory screen and file the save files I want to copy to the USB, similar to files on my PC that I want copied onto the USB drive.

Finally, every time I configure the USB drive, the console would inform me that it is compatible and recognized by the console it was configured on. However, I just plugged in the same USB drive that I configured yesterday on the same console and was asked to configure again. I went through the whole configure process and was informed it meets the Xbox 360 standard and then saved a game save file to it. I turned off the power w/o unplugging the USB drive and then turned on the power again. Went to check on the USB drive and made me go through the configure process once again. This is ridiculous!!!

[Gamevet]

That's not correct. You can do exactly that without any issues. Hard drives aren't tied to a particular 360.

Of course, you'll have to be logged onto Xbox Live to access your DLC when you do it (unless you transfer the licenses). But beyond that and disc installations being locked to a single console, there aren't any limitations that I'm aware of.


I don't necessarily know what changes MS has made, since they offered USB drive support. I do know that when my Elite had the RROD, I had to do a system migration to use my old HDD on the replacement 360.


Thanks for the responses. I think I need to explain my purpose for the game save file transfer more clearly. I got Sonic Generations for Xmas and started to play the game on my brother's Elite console, which is located at our parents'. I have put in about 1 hr play time and have cleared several levels, and thought that I could transfer the game save file so I can continue playing the game on my own Arcade console using the same save file. Now I realize that my own console has the latest OS with the cloud option while my brother's console has the previous version of the OS w/o cloud. So the next time I am there, I will be sure to update his console's OS so it is the same as mine.

I was also thinking that perhaps I need to create my own profile on his console, since I discovered that I cannot copy my user profile from my console onto his. Would I have needed to create my own profile before playing Sonic Generations for the first time? I have a generic profile named Player 2. Would I need to customize it so it mirrors on own console's user profile? Also, it would be great if I could create custom characters and transfer to the USB device, so I can continue to improve their stats on my own console, like custom characters in Top Spin 4 or Virtua Fighter 5, and then bring them over to the Elite console.


So, you played the game using your brother's profile?

If so, there's no way you can use that save as your own on your 360. You'd have to log-in on your 360, using your brothers account. If you want to play games using your 360 and your brother's, the best solution is to transfer your user profile to a USB thumb drive. You just need to make sure you're saving your games to the thumb drive and not the consoles.

[Leo_A]

I don't necessarily know what changes MS has made, since they offered USB drive support. I do know that when my Elite had the RROD, I had to do a system migration to use my old HDD on the replacement 360.

There isn't even a system migration that you could've done. It's all plug and play when you remove the hard drive from your system and plug it into another. Been that way since day 1.

You're thinking of the license transfer process. You did that to enable offline access to your DLC (Or perhaps multiple accounts are on your 360 and you wanted all of them to be able to access any DLC on it). Otherwise, only the purchasing account could access that DLC and you'd have to remain online at all times to have access. Had nothing to do with getting your hard drive to work on a different system.

Or you're thinking of the Playstation 3. You do have to do something similar to that if you remove the HD and put it into another system (You have to back it up and then restore it since putting the HD into a different system reformats it automatically).

[Gamevet]

I'm not thinking of the PS3, which I did upgrade from 60gig to 250. That system requires a HDD backup, before you swap drives.

Yeah, you can swap the HDD between 360s, but like I said you need to do the system migration to make it work right. DLC is a big part of it.

[G-Boobie]

I just moved my own flash drive (one of the small 4 gig HP ones you can get anywhere) from one of my 360's to another without a problem: both consoles have the latest OS, and my profile is copied to the flash drive too. I'm willing to bet that's it's either the OS discrepancy or that you don't have your profile on there.

You're going to lose your progress, but reformat the flash drive and copy your profile on to the flash drive. Copy some other save data (DO NOT MOVE: COPY), and try loading it on your brother's machine, after logging in as the profile on the flash drive. That'll narrow your problem down, anyway.

The cloud saving thing really makes this problem go away: it's awesome.

[Mayhem]

Yeah, if you played the game while logged in as your brother, you're not going to be able to use that save game with your own profile unless you hack it. And given you only played an hour, might as well just start from the beginning again.

What my brother does, as he plays on both his own 360 and mine, depending on the game, is have his user profile to the memory card as well. So he installs all his games to the HD, but all his save games and profile are on the USB.

And yes, I believe the reason the 360 is complaining about not properly recognising the USB is most likely down to the different dashboards both 360s here are using.

[Leo_A]

Yeah, you can swap the HDD between 360s, but like I said you need to do the system migration to make it work right. DLC is a big part of it.

Again, there isn't a system migration that you could've even done. The only thing it could've been was to tie your DLC licenses to your console and it's called a license transfer. All it does is restore the license for DRM purposes that allows your system to access that DLC while offline (Xbox DRM works in two ways, the purchasing account can utilize the content anytime it's logged online on any 360, or the system that purchased the content or had the license transferred to it can access the content at anytime, even offline, with any profile on the system). The license transfer deals with part 2 of that.

It had nothing to do with getting your hard drive to work on your new system. They're not tied to a specific system and I can remove and plug my hard drive on to any other pre slim 360 right now and all my stuff would be working just fine as long as I'm logged into Xbox Live (And if I remove the hard drive casing, I can do it on any slim). It has been that way since day 1.

Just go type Xbox 360 account migration into a search engine like Google. You'll find no links about such a thing and all you will see is information about license transfers to enable offline access to DLC on a system other than the one that the content was purchased on and some legacy links about how to migrate a Xbox Live account created on the original Xbox to the 360 so you could use the account on both systems. Nothing about getting a hard drive working on a different Xbox 360.

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

http://mktplassets.xbox.com/NR/exeres/6AECC100-69EE-4CFA-A594-66AB29836FE0.htm

[BlastProcessing402]

It depends on the game. Some games let you transfer saves between accounts, but include a flag or something so that if you load that save (or any saves made during the same session after loading that save) you can't get achievements.


I guess that depends on how you're transferring that save file.


Just from one profile to another on the same system via the copy option available in the 360's system menu.