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UPDATE: My Xbox is working, and I'm an idiot. The back of the hard drive wasn't snapped into place properly so the connector just jiggled around, and freaked the system out. I discovered this while on the phone with tech support. I'll take feeling like a moron over having to replace my hard drive any day, especially at the beginning of vacation.

My Xbox died tonight. Not the infamous RROD, but the one flashing red light of death. Apparently my HDD is borked because I had the temerity to remove it, and take it over to a friend's house so we could use my Rock Band DLC on his Xbox. It gave me signs of trouble Wednesday night when I hooked it back up, but I managed to get it working, and thought maybe I hadn't plugged it back in completely. Then it gave me fits on Thursday, and I had to stand the Xbox on end like an obelisk to get things working. Now it has given up the ghost completely.

Just in time for vacation.

I'm worried about losing all my data since the HDD is the problem, and have no idea what my recourse is for that if I have to replace it, or indeed the entire console. I have a lot of DLC on there, and somehow I doubt Microsoft will give me a bunch of complementary points to re-purchases everything.

Anyway I'll be calling their tech support tomorrow to see what can be done. In the meantime I'm pissed because I kept holding out on buying a 360 exactly because of the hardware problems, and now they bite me in the ass as I begin my vacation from school. I also have a cold, and running Windows XP through Bootcamp has fucked up my Mac. I will call Apple's tech support Monday. If anything else breaks I'm going to go live in the woods for a while.

I know. Waah waah. I'll post something worthwhile later.