Now I must play games without saving and I am unable to connect to XBOX Live and play with friends. Not only that, but I can't play my arcade games or gain access to any gamer pictures, themes, and avatar items I may have downloaded. However, Microsoft have agreed to give me a new hard drive for free, so I guess there is some kind of upside too all this. Still... all of my save games... gone. *Sniff*

I think the loss of save games is worth the opportunity to play on Xbox Live and actually save your games again. :3
 
I feel your pain though.

Similar thing happened to me once, but when you really think about it, how many of those saves would you have gone back to. I bet you'd never play a lot of them again. Now you have an excuse to play all your games again.

" I think the loss of save games is worth the opportunity to play on Xbox Live and actually save your games again. :3  I feel your pain though. "

" Similar thing happened to me once, but when you really think about it, how many of those saves would you have gone back to. I bet you'd never play a lot of them again. Now you have an excuse to play all your games again. "

i've had this happen before. i am still working on the games that i didn't beat yet. microsoft gave me a new hard drive but i had to argue with the guy since my warranty expired a week before it broke and i had E74 error also. this was like a year ago, it died some time in january.

At least they can't take away your achievements! 

What size HDD did you guys have that had their HDDs die?  Just curious (not saying one size is more likely to die than another).

" What size HDD did you guys have that had their HDDs die?  Just curious (not saying one size is more likely to die than another). "

" Similar thing happened to me once, but when you really think about it, how many of those saves would you have gone back to. I bet you'd never play a lot of them again. Now you have an excuse to play all your games again. "

" @Diamond said:

" What size HDD did you guys have that had their HDDs die?  Just curious (not saying one size is more likely to die than another). "

It was a 120GB Hard Drive that was about 70GB full. "

" @FlamingHobo said:

" @Diamond said:

" What size HDD did you guys have that had their HDDs die?  Just curious (not saying one size is more likely to die than another). "

It was a 120GB Hard Drive that was about 70GB full. "

Ouch that must be a bummer. How do your HDD die? Do they just stop working? "

I'm worried about this happening to me. I have two xbox's (one upstairs, one downstairs) and I'm often moving the hard-drive between the two consoles (around 3 times a week). I think over time, the wear and tear of disconnecting and reconnecting it may make it unusable.

Now's the perfect time to DIY a new hard drive. I'm rocking a 250 GB Western Digital for 60 CDN. I'll track down the tutorial I used if you want.