am I about to fry my Nephew's Xbox?

[big teej]

greetings playgrounders.

a few months ago I suffered a Red Ring of Death on my XBOX 360

after serving me faithfully for about 4-5 years...

naturally. I was.... put out. I yelled to the sky 'WHY!!" fell to my knees and began a very long monolouge about the injustice of it all, waking up my suitemates... I still mourn it's passing

however, my hard drive may be salvageable.

so I come asking the playground (My search-engine-fu is weak)

if I were to take the Hard drive from MY XBOX and plug it into another, WORKING xbox 360...

I should be able to find out if my data is still there without damaging the 'host' console correct?

this is super important so quick replies are much appreciated.

[tyckspoon]

Yes. Hard drives generally are incapable of damaging the host system; the red ring may be about the hard drive, but if so the worst that'll happen is that you'll discover the drive is unreadable.

[big teej]

that's good to know

I dunno what I'd do if I blew up my nephew's or a friends' xbox.

[big teej]

that's good to know

I dunno what I'd do if I blew up my nephew's or a friends' xbox.

[Maxios]

Buy them another Xbox :smalltongue:

[big teej]

Buy them another Xbox :smalltongue:

if I could affford to do that, I would know if my hard drive worked =P

[Maxios]

Good point :smalltongue: