How To Download Movies To Xbox 360 Hard Drive
Items you will need
USB flash drive
Xbox 360 console (with hard drive)
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The Xbox 360 console supports MP4, M4V, MP4V, MOV, AVI, DIVX and WMA video files. The most convenient way to download movies onto the Xbox 360 hard drive is by using Xbox Live Marketplace. Another option is to download movies onto the console hard drive with a USB flash drive. This can be performed without an Xbox Live account or console internet connection.
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Insert the USB flash drive into a USB port on your computer.
Click “My Computer” in the Start menu.
Drag the movie file you want to download to your Xbox 360 hard drive onto the USB drive icon.
Right click on the USB drive icon. Click “Eject.” Remove the USB flash drive from your computer.
Insert the flash drive into the USB port on the Xbox 360 console.
Click “System Settings” under the “My Xbox” tab of the Dashboard menu.
Click “Memory” in the system settings menu.
Click the USB flash drive icon in the storage devices menu.
Click “Videos.”
Click the name of the video from the list.
Click “Copy.”
Click “Hard Drive” from the storage devices menu to download the movie to the Xbox 360 hard drive.
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Some movie files still may not be compatible with the Xbox 360, even if they are of the supported file types.
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The Xbox 360 is much more than a simple video game console. The machine can play music, movies, stream video from your PC onto your TV and, with a connected hard drive, can save your movie and music files. Transferring these files to your Xbox 360 from your PC is not an overly difficult task, though it does require a small piece of third-party hardware.
Connect your Xbox 360 USB Flash Drive to your PC via a USB port.
Move the files you want to transfer to your Xbox 360 USB drive by opening your 'Computers' window and double-clicking on the thumb drive icon to open the drive in a new window. Click and drag the files into the window to copy them.
Remove the USB drive from your PC after transferring the files and plug the drive into one of the front Xbox 360 USB ports.
Power on your Xbox and navigate to the 'Videos' sub-menu. Select the 'Portable Memory' option.
Select your video file and pick 'Copy to Hard Drive' from the list of options that appears. This will begin the process of copying the video over to the Xbox 360 hard drive.
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You must use an official Xbox 360 USB Drive to transfer data. Using a non-approved USB drive will only allow you to play the files on the thumb drive, not copy them.
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