How long to copy original game to hard drive?

[mcrowe44]

How long does it usually take to copy an original game to the xbox hard drive.
I'm doing my first attempt now. It's been an hour. It started with 5500 mb left to transfere, now after an hour theres still 3750 left to be transfered.
thanks

[smokafatty]

What app are you using? It shouldn't take that long, I just use dvd2xbox and it usually only takes 10-20 mins. But certain games will take longer than others, especially the ones that have thousands of small files.

[mcrowe44]

Im using avalaunch. Then using copy2xbox (I think thats what its called). Its speeding up a little now. I noticed there seems to be alot of small files. Its the Project Gotham 2 game. Thanks.

[pepsik]

it's got about 1.65 gb of dummy files, you can delete all the files and clear all that space up after it's on your HDD.

Project Gotham Racing 2
Space Saved: 1.65 GB
/xdemos/
/media/
/dashupdate.xbe
/downloader.xbe
/update.xbe
/data/replays/replay.173
/data/replays/replay.176
/data/replays/replay.195
/data/replays/replay.196
/data/replays/replay.2
/cache/chinese.xmv
/cache/french.xmv
/cache/german.xmv
/cache/italian.xmv
/cache/japanese.xmv
/cache/korean.xmv
/cache/spanish.xmv
/cache/resource/chinese_game_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/chinese_gamefont_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/chinese_uifont_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/french_game_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/german_game_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/italian_game_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/japanese_game_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/japanese_gamefont_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/japanese_uifont_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/korean_game_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/korean_gamefont_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/korean_uifont_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/portuguese_game_resource.xpr
/cache/resource/spanish_game_resource.xpr
/frontend/chinese options.ini
/frontend/chinese.ini
/frontend/chinesecredits.txt
/frontend/french options.ini
/frontend/french.ini
/frontend/frenchcredits.txt
/frontend/german options.ini
/frontend/german.ini
/frontend/germancredits.txt
/frontend/italian options.ini
/frontend/italian.ini
/frontend/italiancredits.txt
/frontend/japanese options.ini
/frontend/japanese.ini
/frontend/japanesecredits.txt
/frontend/korean options.ini
/frontend/korean.ini
/frontend/koreancredits.txt
/frontend/portuguese options.ini
/frontend/portuguese.ini
/frontend/spanish options.ini
/frontend/spanish.ini
/frontend/spanishcredits.txt
If you include the "/data/replays/replay.***" deletes, make sure you also edit "/frontend/demos.ini". You will get a DDE if you delete demos.ini, so delete all contents inside the ini, not the file itself.