Question about Transfering/Deleting Save Data

My brother lent me Halo 4 recently, but i still only have a 20g hard drive. I was thinking i could make room by temporarily deleting my VF data, but would that mean that all my outfit designs and license challenge data would be deleted as well?

If it does is there any way around this aside from buying a flash drive? I don't know or understand how 'cloud' is supposed to work- could that be of any use?

Would deleting VF even make for enough space? I don't want to try anything until i know that it's safe & i won't lose anything of actual 'gameplay'. thanks for any & all help.

PS. the data on my hard drive includes- the item pack 2g, various replay datas, System Data 80k, & VF5FS arcade game 2g. would keeping the system data, but deleting the game and costumes be what i want???

 

Your System data is 80kb until you keep that you should be able to keep every progress you have. However i'm not sure that 4 gb are enought to install halo 3 on your hard disk. Also i don't see why you should install a game if you have the disk.

 

Halo 4 is two discs, the second one is a mandatory install for multiplayer and co-op... i think. i don't really understand it either.

i deleted some other stuff i shouldn't need any more, i now have around 6gs free. thanks, that's what i had hoped.

 

Save game incorporates all customizations and single player gameplay progress, so keeping that is pretty much all you need. I'm guess if you try to play your save later without the customization packs the game just can't load the data, but otherwise it should be there. Replays are saved as separrate files.

Also installing a game to the hard drive drastically improves loading times, I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not...

 

thanks for the response. i know what an install is for and that it helps loading times, but for Halo 4 it is mandatory. i choose not to install games on my HD because as i already said i have no room for it. before deleting what i did, i had less than 2gbs

 

I'd recommend getting a new hard drive, but knowing that XBox uses some propietary Microsoft hd that probably costs well above what a regular 2.5" hd would cost I can see why you would just delete old data you don't necessarily need right now. A pain, but I guess that's what you get.