Backing up the hard drive

[Girevik]

Well, 6 month into my Xbox360 experience I had my first unit die on me. This has me paranoid about losing the data on the hard drive. Is it possible to back up the Xbox's hard drive onto a USB hard drive so that I'll have my game data if the drive should crash?

[Silver71]

You won't lose your data if your xbox crashes, the hard drive should be fine. If you're worried, buy yourself a memory card and periodically save your gamertag and saves on it...

I don't think the USB drive works well. I tried plugging my USB hard drive into it and nothing happened, so I doubt you can use it like you're trying to.