Back up any big saves to a memory card. It seems I'm not the only one who was left after the transfer with an E68 on he 120 GB drive and a freshly wiped 20GB drive. An ounce of prevention.... sure beats the pound of cure I face.
If you have ANY game saves that you invested time in, spend some extra cash and move them to a memory card first. After an hour and a half of transferring my full 20GB to my new 120GB it gave me the old E68 -- bye bye saves.
The exact same thing just happened to me. FYI, it takes some convincing to get them to admit it is the hard drive. Despite the fact that I could recover my gamer tag on the now empty 20GB drive the rep required me to wait until tomorrow to verify that it's the old drive still works and the new one is E 68 lower red light producing garbage. I sent a message to all my friends on Live to buy a memory card and move those saves over before attempting an HD upgrade. The legalese does a good CYA job for Microsoft, so the risk is all ours. I'd bought the drive a while ago, waiting until I had holiday time to deal with the transfer, but luckily I have time before the 90 day window hits. If I have trouble w/the exchange, I'll post a follow-up here. I think, though, I'm basically out only a few key game saves (hundreds of hours on two set-aside games). Bummer for one, as I'd intended to use some after Xmas time to get into Oblivion again and finish it off. I'm certainly out the game saves, but hopefully not out any money.
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