Swap an Elite hard drive into an Arcade?

[illennium]

My Elite that I bought a couple years ago bit the dust and can't be fixed. If I buy one of these Arcade units:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=xbox+arcade&x=0&y=0

will I be able to swap the hard drive from the old Elite into the Arcade and go from there? Or will that not work?

Any other issues I need to be aware of? I have lots of downloaded XBLA games, etc.

Sorry if this question is answered elsewhere. I've never had to replace a console before and haven't paid much attention to the issue.

 

[atlantas]

Yes, you can swap a hard drive from an elite into an arcade. You should have no problem playing any of your downloaded XBLA games on the new system.

 

[mtxbass1]

Should be fine. You'll need to do a transfer of licenses if you don't want to connect to xbox live to play your existing games though.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox360/licensemigration/default.htm

 

[illennium]

Thanks for the answers.