It looks like Halo 3 and the NXE don’t get along so well. A blog released the day of the NXE release states that installing Halo 3 to the Hard Drive of your Xbox 360 may in fact cause the game to perform slower. While the installation is supposed to make games faster, removing the [...]

If you use the popular online backup solutions Carbonite, you may have already realized that for some reason the developers thought it was a good idea to restrict backing files up from external devices. This can be problematic in some cases, for instance, if your internal hard drive is too small and [...]

At some point in time you can pretty much guarantee that you will run in to a problem with your data. You may get a single corrupted file, you may accidentally delete a file or hardware failure could put you in this sort of situation. No matter what the cause, the fact remains, you need [...]

Indications of Hard Drive Failure:

Computer freezes often, meaning usually more than once a day and not caused by a specific piece of software.
Files disappearing or becoming corrupted randomly.
Accessing files becomes extremely slow.
The hard drive activity light blinks excessively.
Any abnormal noises (eg. clicking, whining, knocking, “laser sounds”).

Examples:

Hard drive producing excessive heat. Not to be [...]

With the announcement of the upcoming update to Xbox Live!, some have already began to question what those with the Xbox 360 Arcade will do. Lacking a hard drive, they will be unable to receive this manditory update.
It seems that Microsoft is out to make sure no one is left out on November 19th. Microsoft [...]

After learning that the New Xbox Experience and Avatar customization would require, at minimum, a 256MB memory card, it spawned more questions than answers. Would the NXE install take up all 256MB? If so, what about Xbox 360 Arcade owners and their tiny 256MB memory card? Wait, what about Core customers who don’t have storage [...]