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Subject: My Continued Dilemma!
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Poll: What path should I take?  [closed]
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Many of you by now may know about my current situation. My Xbox died in Germany, and I took out my HD (for any hope of saving data), now I have a new dilemma for which I am asking anyones advice.

Option 1: In my quest to save the data (including XBL account and countless saved games) on the HD from my old, dead Xbox, I have come to a situation where a plan I could try is to buy a used, but working power supply, motherboard, and whatever else I need (for Xbox, from Ebay), and try to configure a setup where I could have a partial Xbox to read my HD and use that to transfer the data, to my new Xbox, via Memory card.
This would be a difficult path to take, because of all the manipulation of electronics, and I've heard of verification codes, that each HD has so that you can't use them with any Xbox it wasn't originally installed in.

Option 2: My friend has an old, old Xbox, that doesn't work quite right. It works well enough to use, but he might be getting a new one. Here I may be able to use his old one to install my HD into, then use that to transfer my data, again via Memory card, to my new Xbox. However, my friend isn't planning on getting a new Xbox for a while. and again the HD codes might intervine, but it's a very old version Xbox, so they might not be there, but we don't know.

Option 3: When my new Xbox arrives, I could try to open that up, and put my HD into that, Voiding my warranty, whit the risk of it no working because of those HD codes.

Option 4: Screw it all! Forget my files, buy a new XBL account, and beat everything all over again, without doing any harm to any Hardware.

Please vote on what you think I should do or reply to give me any advise on what to do or anything that I got wrong.

  • 07.26.2004 5:55 PM PDT
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you could see if you could send it to microsoft

  • 07.26.2004 5:57 PM PDT
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Yah try what Jar said and call up about the XBL account and stuff.

  • 07.26.2004 5:58 PM PDT

There's Option 5: Use something like Disk Doctor to make an image of your old HD and then put that on to your new HD.

[Edited on 7/26/2004 5:59:07 PM]

  • 07.26.2004 5:58 PM PDT
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C'mon Puma, you know the asnwer. Get the new X-Box LIVE account, with a good name. And beat everything over again, it's fun and a good waste of time.

  • 07.26.2004 6:02 PM PDT

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I would try to do it over again, that's the safest route, but keep an eye out for a used one (Like Your Friends) or one with a crashed HD, ( Hang around EB to see if someone comes in with one.) Barring that, you could just try a tutorial from some of those quasi-legal XBox Modification sites, of which I will not post a link....

  • 07.26.2004 6:02 PM PDT