How to run backup games on xbox 360

Want to keep your save games safe from hardware failure? Here's how to do so for Microsoft's console. You've likely amassed a whole heap of unlocked game modes, vehicles, weapons and more in your games; but what happens if your hard drive dies? 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. Select Yes for the prompt that appears. The Xbox will then set up the USB drive for its own use. When your Xbox is running in issues, you are at the risk of losing data. Even if you can get it fixed by sending for repairs, it will take a lot of time. Considering the system life of your PS3, you may need to back up your PS3 hard drive. With a backup of your Xbox hard drive, you can use it upgrade your hard drive without losing any games or files when the original PS3 HDD fails to work.

What should you prepare? Xbox does not provides a backup program within the system, so you need to open up the protective shell and take out of your Xbox hard drive. Bear in mind that unplugging the Xbox HDD may void any warranty of your Xbox , so it is recommended to do this when the warranty expires.

In order to take remove the Xbox hard drive, you need two special screwdrivers to open the Xbox. Since Windows Backup will not work with FAT32 formatted partition, you also need a free professional backup software to get a better performance regarding backup and restore.