Upgrading the Xbox 360 hard drive CHEAP!

Step 7 Backing up the old hard drive

Before we begin, we need to make a folder on your local computer to store the Xbox 360 data. You need to have about 20GB free to do this.

PARTITION 3 - DATA

1. Hook up the old hard drive. You can hook it up directly to the motherboard or using a USB-SATA adapter like I did. Just make sure you can boot into Windows.
2. Open Xplorer360 xtreme 2.
3. Click "Drive" --> "Open" --> "Harddrive or memcard..."
4. You will see 3 partitions
5. Click on Partition 3 and you will see some folders.
6. You need to copy these folders to your backup folder by clicking and dragging

NOTE: I had some problems at this point:
$TitleUpdate copied fine.
$SystemUpdate copied fine
$Cache created an endless loop. I had to create a folder in my backup folder called Cache. Then copy the contents from the Cache folder in Xplorer360 a little at a time.
mindex gave me an error. I had to create a folder and copy a little at a time for this one as well.
Content gave me an error. Creating a folder and copying a little at a time fixed this one also.

PARTITION 2 - SYSTEM INFO

1. In Xplorer360, click Drive or File
2. Select "Backup Partition 2"
3. Save this to the same folder as the others, but do not change the file name