I have a banned console with 60gb hard drive and there is just over 9gb of XBLA games on there. I have backed up the HDD using Xport (Xplorer360 wouldn't work for me) and I was wondering if it would be possible to get that 9gb of XBLA games onto a new 20gb drive?

See, I'm planning to buy a new arcade system and use the 60gb on that, and a friend has offered to sell me his old 20gb drive for a tenner, so I was hoping to use that on the banned one and transfer the XBLA games over (no need for 60gb if I can't install anymore).

Is this possible? Thx

Bump, I'm curious about this as well. Seems there's lots of banned folks out there now with 120GB drives, they may as well just move whatever they can to the old 20GB drive and put the 120GB on a new console.

This may help: More on LIVE Bans, HDD Crippling, Possible Ban Causes

That has nothing to do with the technical question of whether it's possible to "downgrade" your hard drive by moving bits around.

To the original poster, I wanted to let you know I was able to successfully transfer everything from a 120GB drive to my original 20GB drive this afternoon.

After deleting the games ripped to hard drive (which are now useless on a banned console), I was left with 15GB of data. I used XPort and the transfer cable which came with the 120GB drive, created an image of the 120GB drive, then copied everything (my profile, all of the saves, DLC, arcade games, etc.) to the 20GB drive. I attached the 20GB drive to the banned console and it signed into my profile automatically at startup. I was able to play my purchased arcade games, Rock Band downloaded tracks, load my saves and everything else without issue.

Now I'll be able to use this 120GB drive on my non-modded 360, transfer the licenses and be back in business.

Hope that helps.

That's perfect mate. Exactly the answer I was looking for. Thank you

You're absolutely right, but as the OP used Xport to make a backup I assumed he also knew it's possible to "downgrade" that way, unlike the transfer kit which can only transfer to a larger HDD (20GB -> 120GB) if you have an old disc, or to a HDD equal to or larger than the current one when you have the new disc (While MS doesn't know it, it is possible to use the transfer kit on a 250GB HDD if you have the new disc...Note: I haven't tried it myself!!).

I know, assumption is the mother of all F ups, but it seemed logical to me, then again I was aware that profiles, DLC, game saves and what not can be transfered to homegrown HDD's, and I was merely trying to point out that Arcade games would still be valid but that you might need to re-download some content due to corruption.

Besides, trying wouldn't hurt as it can't get any worse.

Good thing you tried it and figured it out yourself