Transferring 360 data/saved games/profile on hard drives. Im confused.

[limelight022]

Bear with me here, its a lot of info and im trying to find the best logical solution to it.

-I have a 20gb hdd (no system) with my profile, xbla games, saved data/ achivements on it. (I was on a Gold account, but i havent had a 360 in about a year so I do plan to get Gold again).
-I also have a 256mb memory card.

-Im going to most likely buy the elite system with 120gb. I want to transfer my profile/saved/games/xbla games (including double dragon, which i heard was removed from Live).

-So- is it faster/easier/possible to just copy the game saves to the memory card then to the 120gb, re-download all my xbla games, and retrieve my gamercard with my achievements on my new system? (Also deleting my gamercard off the 20gb)?

-OR do i need to buy the transfer cable?

-The reason I ask is because i read the transfer cable "rules" on the xbox.com site and it says you can only transfer once and thats it- so what happens if i transfer the files and then the hdd dies? Would i be SOL???

I hope you xbox 360 pros can help me out here. Im not sure what to do.

[Lost_In_Shadows]

Bear with me here, its a lot of info and im trying to find the best logical solution to it.

-I have a 20gb hdd (no system) with my profile, xbla games, saved data/ achivements on it. (I was on a Gold account, but i havent had a 360 in about a year so I do plan to get Gold again).
-I also have a 256mb memory card.

-Im going to most likely buy the elite system with 120gb. I want to transfer my profile/saved/games/xbla games (including double dragon, which i heard was removed from Live).

-So- is it faster/easier/possible to just copy the game saves to the memory card then to the 120gb, re-download all my xbla games, and retrieve my gamercard with my achievements on my new system? (Also deleting my gamercard off the 20gb)?

-OR do i need to buy the transfer cable?

-The reason I ask is because i read the transfer cable "rules" on the xbox.com site and it says you can only transfer once and thats it- so what happens if i transfer the files and then the hdd dies? Would i be SOL???

I hope you xbox 360 pros can help me out here. Im not sure what to do.

I guess you should use the transfer kit. I'm not exactly sure either. I remember hearing Double Dragon was removed from live. When I transfered the license. I was still able to download it. So no worries about that.

[limelight022]

How did you download it again after it was delisted?

[bigdaddybruce44]

Even if it was removed from Live (don't know), you should still be able to find it in your download history.