What is wrong with my Xbox360 - is this hard drive related?

The system will not boot. For the past few weeks I had been experiencing intermittent random freezes, but I figured it was just that the game I was playing was poorly coded (I have been playing one game exclusively recently, so I had not experienced this issue with other games). Today when I got on, I did not go straight to my game, but deleted some old demos instead first. The console froze, and gave me three red lights while in the dashboard. My brother has sent his xbox in for service upwards of 5 times for the red ring of death (not exaggerating), so I was gripped with fear at this point. I tried to reboot it, but it would get to the xbox logo and freeze after first two attempts. On the Third attempt, the green power light came on, and the fans came on, but it did not boot at all.



I have a Halo3 edition xbox, and it is out of warranty. They want $99 bucks for the warranty work, and the whole stupid system only costs $199 now.



If it cannot be fixed, can I take my hard drive off my old system, and put it on the new one? Or is the problem I am experiencing hard drive related?



I am on disc 3 of Final Fantasy, and would prefer not to lose my current game file. Also, I have other save files from other games I would like to import into future games (like the mass effect save game that I played through mass effect one and two - or the dragon age/expansion save file - or fable2 - I work full time and would never be able to redo all that)



As sick of a human being as apparently am, I HOPE that I can drop another 200 bucks in the system and keep my save files as opposed to the other way around. Please someone have some good news for me!What is wrong with my Xbox360 - is this hard drive related?
Me, my girlfriend and my brother all have had our xbox since 2005.



Do you know how many times each of us has sent it in?



Me- 9

Brother-1

Girlfriend-0



Yes it BLOWS... but i never paid ONCE for it.



Honestly if you have the RRoD, call xbox support and ask to talk to a supervisor and complain how they said that with the RRoD and E74 you get it replace for free as long as it within the 3 years.



Im sure your console isnt 3 years old is it?



Even if so, you can spend the 200$ for a new console... or you can spend half and keep the halo edition ( id double check with them on that though )



Plus when you get your new one, just slap on your old hard drive.



OR



You can go onto youtube and learn how to fix the RRoD yourself.



I did it with my friends, and his friends... its surprinsing simple... but voids your warrenty.What is wrong with my Xbox360 - is this hard drive related?
i had the RRoD twice :( it sucks BAD but i sent it in and exectly 2 weekes later they sent it back all for free along with a 1 month free gold subscription card for saying sorry. there really is no other way that i know of. its a hassle but better than having it not work at all.



hope i helped!