Re: Used HD in new Xbox

Depends on how careful you are.

Incidentally, there seems to be a guy selling counterfeit warranty
stickers on a popular XBox forum. Isn't that actually illegal? Any
opinions?

                -Mike Riches
                 mriches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                 http://students.washington.edu/mriches

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Krister Bergman wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bram Stolk wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:46:17 +0100 (CET)
> > Krister Bergman <bell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I bought an xbox about a month ago and was surprised to find out that the
> > > harddisk in didn's seem to be new. It has something written on it and it
> > > seems to have a half removed failure label.
> > >
> > > Here's a link to two pictures of the disk: http://www.milliways.st/xbox/
> > >
> > > This seems ok, running fine with Mandrake 9.0. A bit dissappointed that it
> > > didn't have the 10Gb disk.
> >
> > It's the 8G model? Yuck. Also, it has a 'failure code'.
> > I would try returning it to the store, and getting a new one.
> > It's likely that you will end up with a 10Gb drive then.
> >
> >  Bram
> >
>
> Well, the problem is that opening it voids the warranty... :(
>
> /bell
>
>
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