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Well like the title says, my HDD is dead, my xbox doesn't want to read it anymore, so I'm buying a new 360.....just wondering, how am I going to recover my gamertag and my xbox live account ??



My favorite games for this gen:

1. Gears of War    2. MGS4    3. Killzone 2   4. Halo 3(Underated by many)      5. Mass Effect

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there should be an option to recover gamertag when you get your new hdd...

hmm funnilly enough my pc HDD died a few days ago too... lost a lot of stuff including sentimental things that i don't know if I can recover again...



can you just get a new HDD instead of new xbox? (yeah i know xbox is dirt cheat now a days but still) I have not tried it yet but I think you can log in your xbox live account to any xbox or even on PC.



A new HDD is 110$, a new xbox is around 250, now it can be the HDD thats dead but could it be also possible that the connection on the Xbox is the problem ?
Anyways I'm picking a new one tomorrow, this is pissing me off, I'm on my fifth xbox and now this is going to be my sixth, I just feel like I wanna throw it out the window in a pit of fire.
I just want to know, if my HDD is not working, how can I recover my gamertag and my xbox live account ?



My favorite games for this gen:

1. Gears of War    2. MGS4    3. Killzone 2   4. Halo 3(Underated by many)      5. Mass Effect

I think you can get a 20gb HDD on eBay for $20-$30.



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Did you call MS, a HDD replacement may be cheaper from them.......you could also replace the HDD in the enclosure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WR9inneEkA



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To recover gamertag go to

 

Join Xbox live

 

Recover GT

 

Then put your info in.



Well I just called them and they don't sell hard-drive so I'm going to go and pickup a new one tomorrow and sell the one I have right now for 100$ so it won't cost me that much more and I'll have HDMI.
Thanks for the info on the gamertag Garnett.



My favorite games for this gen:

1. Gears of War    2. MGS4    3. Killzone 2   4. Halo 3(Underated by many)      5. Mass Effect

SolidSnitch said:
A new HDD is 110$, a new xbox is around 250, now it can be the HDD thats dead but could it be also possible that the connection on the Xbox is the problem ?
Anyways I'm picking a new one tomorrow, this is pissing me off, I'm on my fifth xbox and now this is going to be my sixth, I just feel like I wanna throw it out the window in a pit of fire.
I just want to know, if my HDD is not working, how can I recover my gamertag and my xbox live account ?

 

Anyone else think that this line was hilarious?  RARGH, I'M SO MAD RIGHT NOW, HERE TAKE MORE OF MY MONEY!!!



Why would you buy a whole new XBox when it is the hard drive that went bad. Shouldn't you just get a new/refurbished hard drive?