Gamblor187

After months of struggling, the Thompson drive on my XBox finally passed away today. Instead of dropping the money to get a new drive, I'll probably just wait until I can find a good deal and pick up a new XBox. So what should I do with the dead one?

Kumar J

Sell it on Ebay!

Ralph Wiggum

Turn it into a crappy present!

Michael Corvin

I think you can buy a replacement drive for around $50 and install it yourself. Of course that voids any warranty, but at this point what is there to lose.

Check xbox-scene.com.

jonnyrocks

Give it to your stoner friends and let them make a bong out of it.

wertent

you can hide your weed in there

Obey The D

Trade it in at an Electronics Boutique if you have one near you. Most will give you full trade-in credit regardless of wether it works or not.

goLUCKY

take it apart, and sell the parts.

RDGAFFORD

What do you want for it?

Gamblor187

I don't think that there's sn Electronics Boutique near me. (We do, however, have three GameStops...all less than a mile from each other!)

After picking up a bunch of games at the Toys R Us clearance this morning, I broke down and bought a new XBox already.

I also bought a memory card so that I could transfer some of my old games to my new XBox, but I haven't had any luck. It's letting me delete files, but I don't get the option to copy any of the files. I don't know if it's because the XBox is dead, or if it's because I'm using a third party memory card.

Gamblor187

I'm not going to sell or trade it. It's not worth the hassle of shipping it out to anyone. I'll call GameStop tomorrow to see if they'll give me a few bucks worth of credit for it.

If not, I'll pass it on to my brother in law. Maybe he'll feel like buying anf installing a new hard drive.

Gideon68

When you copy, move your cursor to the right of the big circle with the game title. The individual saves are the circles under the game title banner. I had trouble with this the first time I tried to save, but figured it out by accident.

I would also recommend using officially licensed products, unlicensed ones can be unpredictable.

Marker

Gamestop requires trade-in consoles to be in working order and will test the unit out before taking it. You should try to find an EB instead. Plenty of stories on this board about EB taking back faulty consoles w/o testing them.

Josh H

I did the store locator for Saint Claire Shores, Mi for you and it looks like you ahve several around you. Here's the closest couple.

Electronics Boutique #361
Mall: EASTLAND CENTER
18000 VERNIER RD.
HARPER WOODS MI, 482250000 US
313-526-8340
Distance: 3.98 miles
Show Map

EB Games #2771
Mall: GATEWAY VILLAGE CENTER
15405 GRATIOT AVE
DETROIT MI, 48205 US
313-371-6440
Distance: 5.25 miles
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EB Games #3324
Mall: TECH PLAZA
29152 VAN DYKE AVE
WARREN MI, 48093 US
586-574-0032
Distance: 7.15 miles
Show Map

cowboy

you can mod it and turn it into a media center.

fumanstan

Take it apart and practice your computer engineering skills.

Gamblor187

Hmmm....I don't know how I missed them all. I guess Perhaps I'll suit up and Kevlar and take a trip to Eastland mall.

Thanks for the help. I'll trade it in this weekend.

Gamblor187

Thanks! That did it.

Elpresidentepez

I recommend modding it. I had mine modded and now i use it for gaming and watching downloaded tv shows.

Borst

walk around with it in town and 'trip' and toss it into the street and then jump up and start crying, have your friend video taping it all from the bushes across the street and get everyones reactions to you and then put in on the net for us to watch

charlie bucket

You should try to sell it to a blind kid.

Obey The D

Pretty XBox, pretty XBox....Can you say pretty XBox?

Link_182

"We got no food, we got no money, our X-BOX'S DISC DRIVE WON'T WORK"

charlie bucket

Nice!

Fanboy