How To install an Xbox 360 Game onto your Harddrive
Since I’m an avid 360 gamer it might come as a surprise to some, but I’ve never bothered to install a game to my Xbox 360 hard drive previously. Frankly I’m running an old (basically launch edition) console with a 10 GB hard drive, I don’t really have that much space for game installs. I figured I’d give it a try though. Here’s the steps:
- Boot up your console and put the game in
- Get to the main menu
- Go to My Xbox
- Go right and select Game Library
- Wait for Recent Games to populate
- Press A on your game (should be top one in the list)
- Select Install game to hard drive and hit A
- Wait
At this point, god willing, your game will have installed. When I tried to install Battlefield: Bad Company 2, it prompted me for 4.9 GB of space (which I didn’t have) and let me free up some space. After deleting some videos, the install proceeded.
The only reason I did this was because my console was throwing a fit about “Disk is unreadable” CONSTANTLY. The game is brand new, left the drive all of twice since I got it… it simple isn’t scratched that badly. When I tried to install it, it got about 30% through it and complained about a dirty disk (AGAIN). I cleaned the disk and it finally installed. Hopefully this will solve my issue.
Hi
I just want to ask this question. I’ve got a Superelite slim which comes with a 4GB hard drive. Would this be enough to save FIFA 11 to my hard drive? It says at the back of the case “30MB to save game” but I’m not quite sure what it’s referring to. Please help!
Thanks
Likely not. “30MB to save game” means to save your in game information (team make up, stats, uniform design, what ever else FIFA the game lets you customise). If you try to install the game, it will tell you how much space it will require and if you have enough, but most Xbox games are between 4GB and 9GB in size.