New to XBox: Hard Drives?

Games Other Halo
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Hey all,

Finally caved and bought an XBox. Sick of missing out on Halo games.

I just bought the standard 4GB version. I didn’t plan on doing anything intensive on it - basically, I’ll play all the Halo games and that’s about it. I’m still a PC gamer through-and-through (hell, I’m buying a Xim Edge to play Halo 4 with my mouse and keyboard).

Now, I’ve never used an Xbox before, so what’s the deal with hard drives? Do I need to buy an extra hard drive to install Halo on? 4GB will not be enough (by a long shot). It’s looking like I may need to buy a data stick for each Halo game or two. But then again I don’t know what I’m talking about.

Basically, can someone give me the down-low on how this works? Just lay it out for me, plain, sweet, and simple?

Thanks in advance.

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You need to buy a 360 branded hard drive or a 8-16gb thumbdrive to install Halo on.

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I believe you need a hard drive with 8GB of space available to install the mp. You can also get a flashdrive up to 32gb, which is what i did because it is way cheaper then a xbox hard drive. I bought a 32gb flash drive for $22.00.

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> I believe you need a hard drive with 8GB of space available to install the mp. You can also get a flashdrive up to 32gb, which is what i did because it is way cheaper then a xbox hard drive. I bought a 32gb flash drive for $22.00.

Xbox will only recognize 16gb. So a 32gb is just a wast of money.

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if you still have your old hard drive you can take it apart and put it in your new xbox

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Hmm, well my xbox saids 28gb available so idk.

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Okay, so I’ll buy a 16GB flash drive (any flash drive will do?) to install Halo 4 on. Sounds like Halo 4 will pretty much take up that whole flash drive (what with DLC later on and so forth). Do I just plug it into the USB port in the front then? And then the XBox formats it, and it’s good to go?

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> Okay, so I’ll buy a 16GB flash drive (any flash drive will do?) to install Halo 4 on. Sounds like Halo 4 will pretty much take up that whole flash drive (what with DLC later on and so forth). Do I just plug it into the USB port in the front then? And then the XBox formats it, and it’s good to go?

Yes.

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> > I believe you need a hard drive with 8GB of space available to install the mp. You can also get a flashdrive up to 32gb, which is what i did because it is way cheaper then a xbox hard drive. I bought a 32gb flash drive for $22.00.
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> Xbox will only recognize 16gb. So a 32gb is just a wast of money.

The latest dashboard update increased it to 32gb. Too lazy to google it for you.

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Thanks for the replies. I fully understand now.