Copying xbox games 360

Step 3: Scroll down to Install Game and press A to finish up. TIP: If your Xbox 's hard drive does not have sufficient space to copy the Xbox game you want to copy, it will prompt you to free up space on your hard drive. Simply locate files, such as game demos and other items you do not use, and delete them.

Step 4: Press the eject button on the console and insert the game you want to install. Step 5: Scroll to My Xbox from the dashboard. Step 6: Scroll to the right to Game Library and press A. Step 7: Choose the game you want to copy and press A. Obviously you'll need a computer that has the operating capability specified for the software.

You'll need the Xbox game copying software. You'll need a few high-quality DVD blanks, and of course your original Xbox games.

Now it's time to install the software for copying Xbox games , either by inserting the software disk and following the on-screen instructions, or by completing the installation of a program that was downloaded from the Internet.

Once the program is installed, start it up by clicking on the program's new desktop icon. If no icon was placed on your desktop, go to your program list and select the application. Insert your original Xbox disk, and click the buttons displayed for copying Xbox games. Usually it is only necessary to indicate that you wish to copy a game. Follow the on-screen instructions. It takes only a few minutes for the software to copy the original data.

Remove the game disk, and insert the blank DVD disk to receive the copy. That whole copying process shouldn't have taken very long at all. Having successfully made your first copy, you can now claim that you are an expert at copying Xbox games , and can continue to make backups copies of all of your valuable Xbox games.

Do your online homework to make sure that you select a program for copying Xbox games that is reliable and easy to use. You'll sleep much better at night knowing that your investment in your Xbox games is being protected. The Xbox offers two alternatives for saving your games somewhere other than the console. The first is cloud, where your games are saved online and can be downloaded to any console you log in to.

Sadly, you need to be a Xbox Live Gold member to use this; that is, you'll need to set up a paid subscription. You'll also need half a gigabyte of storage on your hard drive to act as a local cache. If you have these things, you can enable cloud storage by signing into your gamer profile, then going to Settings in the dashboard, selecting the System tile and then selecting Storage. You can then copy or move save games to the cloud by selecting your Hard Drive or Memory unit, selecting the appropriate game, selecting the game save, choosing Copy or Move, then selecting Cloud Saved Games.

When playing a game, you can also select the cloud as your storage instead of your hard drive — just keep in mind that the game save is not uploaded to the cloud until you've finished playing your game. You can turn the console off if you like, too — the Xbox will enter low power mode and continue transferring the save before it completely powers down.

If you want to back-up your save games to a USB flash drive you can, but there are a few conditions as it seems Microsoft wants to protect its sales of Xbox hard drives:. Sign into your gamer profile, insert the drive in a USB port on your Xbox , and head to Settings in your dashboard. Select the System tile and then Storage.