Xbox 360 120GB Hard Drive

Comment: pretty simple. i recived my purchase had to delete a few things-the product was good as new for half the cost. very pleased.

Comment: The refurb drive works fine but if you're looking for matched components you may want to stick with a new one. My 360 is white and the drive came in as black. No choice was given prior to purchase. Otherwise, it functions as described.

Comment: I see a great many reviews in which people are saying that they received a 3rd party HDD, and not a Microsoft hard-drive. Remember Amazon has the A-Z guarantee if you've been misled... Same goes for whether or not it contains the transfer kit, which will cost $20 if you purchase it separately. A new 120GB HDD should include the transfer kit, but I see a lot of people complaining that they didn't receive one.

I purchased a "used" Xbox 360 120GB HDD from a private Amazon seller, and it works great, though --as stated in the listing-- it didn`t include a TRANSFER KIT.

If you're upgrading and don`t have the TRANSFER KIT, you've got a few things to do once you`ve attached your "new" HDD:

1.) Do a Gametag recovery, to get your old profile onto your new hard-drive. You'll be prompted to do this during set-up once the new HDD has been attached... So no fuss, no muss. I should add that you do need to be connected to Xbox LIVE for this to work.

2.) After that, you can do a license transfer that will allow you to re-download anything you may have purchased off of LIVE. This can be done on Xbox.com, but you do need to have completed the step above first. If you've never purchased anything off of LIVE, you can skip this step.

3.) After that, it's all about your game saves. Without a TRASFER KIT, you can use a flash-drive instead, which means reattaching your old HDD and moving everything on to a flash/stick-drive (do this in the console dashboard's SYSTEM SETTINGS/MEMORY). Once completed, reattach your NEW HDD, and transfer whatever you need back off the flash-drive (again in SYSTEM SETTINGS/MEMORY). This is all VERY user friendly. However, one problem about using a flash drive was, for me, that a couple of the game saves wouldn't transfer. This was only an issue with 3 games (out of more than two dozen)... But I did end up borrowing a friends TRANSFER KIT, to complete the process.

I guess if you're like me and buying a used/refurb on the cheap without a transfer kit, I would suggest trying the flash-drive method first, and see if there is anything that can't be moved. If there is, I guess it then becomes an issue for you as to whether or not those saves are worth the $20 purchase of a kit.

Comment: Reading the prior reviews, most if not all says it came with a transfer kit. Do not rely on this information alone. Amazon frequently uses different partners to fulfill the orders so whether or not it will come with a transfer kit is dependent on this fact.

Mine DID NOT come with a transfer kit, hence in the big picture I spent more money than I should because I thought I was saving money if it included the kit. I would have been better off buying the harddrive and kit from another seller, it would have came out to the price of the harddrive alone from here.

Best thing to do is see who the company is that the product ships from (there should be a name and link to the company right under the product name) and see if you can contact them to get the details on whether or not it includes transfer kit.

Comment: Sure it's a little pricy, but with the Ability of the NXE update to save my games to the HDD, my little 20GB HDD was filling up fast. This drive is a bit louder than my older 20GB drive, but it sure does give me a lot of expansion power.