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As it currently stands, you must have Gold privileges - either from your account, as part of a Family Pack, or as part of a promotion - to play online. Free (formerly known as Silver) and local accounts cannot otherwise play online. At one point, Microsoft did offer online play to Free/Silver members for select titles, but it was for a limited time, and ...

Gamertag is still accessible on an Xbox 360 Go to your Xbox Guide (center button) => Settings => Account Management => Windows Live ID. The Windows Live ID associated with the signed-in Gamertag will show. 1 Gamertag is not on any Xbox 360 Contact Xbox support directly via support.xbox.com/contact. The site will give you an option to chat live or speak ...

You can have two different Xbox LIVE accounts on the same Xbox 360 for sure. I've had 4-5 on mine at one time between roommates and such. You can also recover your Xbox LIVE Gamertag to any console at any point. Your account can only be "active and updated" on a SINGLE console at a time. (What this means is that it must be recovered to a console before you ...

Ok, if you are not connected to xbox live when you earn an achievement that achievement is stored on your local box. If you then go and recover your gamer tag to a new box, the new box (and live.xbox.com) won't show those achievements. To have your achievements unified across all media you need to sign the box that earned them back into xbox live on that ...

Running the account on different consoles is fine, the only restriction there is that you have to be in the same country. The biggest drawback of a family account, is that only the primary account holder can make purchases against their own billing account. So if you are the primary account holder, your brother will not be able to make purchases on the ...

If you go to xbox.com and login you should see your live profile picture displayed in the top right next to your name displayed in the top right-hand corner as seen below. Depending on your browser, you can sometimes right click and save that image. Alternately, you can go to the following URL and find your profile picture: ...

You can't use your xbox live account on multiple machines to prevent people sharing accounts. By forcing you to recover your gamertag every time you move to a different machine it greatly discourages people from sharing accounts. This is by design, an enormous pain in the butt, but prevents microsoft from having to detect an account logged on two places ...

You can have your profile on two consoles, just go to "recover my gamertag" on the second console. This means that you'll have to do this every time you go home / go to work, but that's the price you pay for not wanting to carry a use stick in your pocket. There are ways (dd) that would probably copy the information, assuming you can find the right file ...

Once you create an Xbox Live account, your gamertag replaces whatever name you gave the profile. Profile names are local to the system, but Xbox Live account gamertags are unique across all Xboxes, so it's unlikely that he could change it to be "Dave" again - likely someone already has that tag. I do believe you get one "free" gamertag change when you sign ...

There are 2 possible options for you, I think: Take your profile and game data on a USB drive with you. Recover your profile on the other 360, and re-download the Online Pass. This should be available to you on the other machine since it was previously downloaded. The full steps to re-download content are here, but basically: Guide, Settings, Account ...

You can just delete them from the drive. Go to System, and then choose Settings (when at the My Xbox channel, it's the far right item IIRC), then Storage, and select Memory Unit or Hard Drive (or whatever storage device the console is using). There should be list of the types of items stored there, one of which is Profiles. Select that, then delete each one. ...

First you'll have to format the USB drive so that your 360 can use it to store data. Here's a page on Xbox.com that walks you through the process, but the basic steps are: Plug in the flash drive Go to System Settings under My Xbox Select Memory, then select USB Storage Device Choose whether you want to use the entire drive for Xbox storage (up to 16GB), ...

Get two memory units (or USB drives if you have the newer XBox360 Slim). Store each profile on one along with any save file you'd like to have available for on both consoles. That's what me and my bf do Also, downloaded content works A) on the console it was downloaded on and B) from the profile who downloaded it. So have your gold membership profile ...

You can create your X-Box account for any country, however you can only change countries once every 12 months. This can be done via the X-Box live website. You have to however copy all your downloaded content to a backup USB since you can't re-download these. Also the country on your Live account and the X-Box account must match, otherwise it will create ...

Your achievements are tied to your gamertag, not the console, so there are a few ways to transfer everything over. If you have a hard drive on your old console and you're buying one of the older models, you can just pop it over to the new one and your achievements and saved games will be usable right away. If you are buying one of the newer consoles with ...

You can not transfer the license of content you purchased to another account. You can, however, set content you've purchased to be accessible by other profiles on another Xbox (possibly what you're already aware of). See here for details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963711 And another link I found: ...

It appears that the gamertag is released back into the pool of available gamertags. I changed mine a couple of months ago. Just now I logged into a different Xbox Live account and attempted to change that account's gamertag to my old gamertag, and I got the message that my old gamertag was available. I also tried to send a friend request from this ...

So, a gamer tag can only be associated with 1 memory device at a time. If you transfer to another hard drive, or memory unit, or recover it to a new Xbox, the old gamer tag will be unable to log into Xbox live. There is a single exception to this rule. If you duplicate the profile (which would require custom modifications and void your warranty), then the ...

As far as I am aware, it is only possible to play multiplayer games online through Xbox Live if you have a gold account, or if you are playing on a Free Gold Weekend, which are special, and often rare, events that happen often to celebrate the release of a new title or occasionally for holidays.

This is a link for Move, Delete and Recovery of gamer tags.. They are tied to a console (For those who got a new XBox, if you wondered why you could play your XBL Arcade games offline on your original XBox but not the new one, its cause you need to make the new one your official one :)) Anywho, hope this helps :) ...

It sounds like the account you're using on your new Xbox is just a local GamerTag - it has never connected to Xbox Live. If that is the case, when you recover your previous GamerTag, it will be a separate account from the new one you created. It should have any achievements that you've earned previously on that account, including those on your friend's Xbox ...

I was able to "sign-in" to my own profile on my friends Xbox, and was able to perform the following: By signing in on my account and proceeding to Settings -> Account -> Download History: Redownload any games I had purchased from Xbox Live Arcade, even if my friend did not have them purchased himself. These were fully operable games, however, if my ...

The Xbox 360 HDD uses a FAT32 filesystem and wraps all your stored data into 1GB sized proprietary disk images, so conventional hard drive tools may not do you much good. Unfortunately, the Xbox 360 doesn't seem to have any low level data management/repair tools in the Dashboard. Now, if I understand this correctly it looks like a disc read error. Since ...

From here: Plug the flash drive in, go to your system menu and then go to memory. Configure your flash drive to create an Xbox partition. Now your flash drive will read as a memory unit. Copy your gamertag over. Also, make sure that you've downloaded the latest Xbox system update to your Xbox so that the option to use a flash drive ...

With the new upgrade of the user interface a couple of months ago, it now allows the same gamertag to be on multiple consoles and NOT have to redownload or update it. I have two xboxs, one for me and another for my housemates and I notice when my housemates use my account on a different system. When I log on to a different xbox than the previous one I logged ...

First of all, keep in mind that on the 360, saved games and Xbox Live profiles are ultimately stored in different "places". While you can keep both on a hard drive (or on a memory unit or flash drive if the saved games are small enough), saved games are only kept locally, while your Xbox Live profile is tracked on Microsoft's servers. If you're talking ...

You definitely want to move your profile over before removing the HDD from the old enclosure. This is most easily done with the XBox 360 Transfer Cable. Otherwise, old product keys (for DLC, XBLA purchases, etc) might not work properly with the new 360. As for your second question, I would imagine you could put anything on the internal storage that you ...

This is completely dependent on the game. For popular games developed primarily for multiplayer it will almost always be stored on the server for both convenience and security. Examples being Call of Duty and Halo which store ranking server side. For games that share a leveling system between online multiplayer and system-link, split-screen, or ...

If you recover your gamer tag all the achievement progression / custom weapon layouts specific to that game will be available on the console you recover to. I've played Halo round a friends house many a time and when I turn up I simply recover my profile and it even remembers my x+y axis sensitivity levels and the fact that I invert the y axis. The gamer ...

Be carefull, if you register your xboxlive in the usa you need to buy your gold cards in the usa. gold cards from india will not work. luckly america is a big country so you could buy your gold cards on ebay, but be aware that me moving from Belgium to the UK means i have to travel back to belgium or let someone buy an xboxlive card in belgium. On the same ...