
Once you've done that, as James Sutherland correctly pointed out, you STILL won't be able to play this content unless you are logged in to your Xbox Live account.
it also pulled across my old savegames and settings, which I wouldn't get from a straight download, so that is a nice perk.
This pulled across ALL data on the older Xbox hard drive to the new Xbox hard drive in about an hour, though I was getting some intermittent read errors and had to retry a bit. I went ahead and picked up the $20 Xbox Data Transfer cable from a local EBGames (they stock them). I concluded that re-downloading over the internet 593 items in full (over 60gb) takes absurdly long. Thanks for everyone's help!Īs I said in the question, I already transferred all DRM rights to the new console in advance using the online content license transfer tool.
Answering my own question, as it combines a few elements from Omar's answer and James Sutherland's comment and a few others.