X-Box question

[elsie3]

Help for the clueless, please? My sons pooled their money and bought an XBox 360 console with Kinect. They would like to play some original backwards-compatible X-Box games, but it says you need a hard drive for that. Is there a way around this, or do we really have to purchase a hard drive? If that is the case, it's going to have to wait until Christmas--which they would obviously rather not do.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Zenara25]

I don't have an Xbox 360 but maybe you could buy this smaller refurbished 20GB Xbox 360 hard drive for $20 plus shipping. Could 'probably' fit a few games.
Xbox 360 20GB Hard Drive (Refurbished) - Used for Xbox 360 | GameStop

 

[bonvivant]

How big was the HDD that came with the Xbox? If they have enough space, they can use that. If they need a new drive, they can be found really cheap as Zenara posted. I'm sure we paid less than $50 for a drive at Target or Best Buy. Look around for deals.

 

[elsie3]

Thanks for your replies. I guess it's a 360 Slim, so only certain hard drives will work--but we are looking at the refurbished ones. We'll keep an eye out. Thanks for the advice.