Error code E68. Have I lost everything?

Hello PervertedSpider! I do apologize but the Xbox Support Agent was correct about your Hard Drive only having a 90 day warranty if bought separate from the console. If you have tried all of the steps for the E68 error, and the console only has the error when the Hard Drive is connected means there is a fatal fault in the Hard Drive and a new one needs to be purchased.

There is no way to recover the information from the drive. If you have a friend with the same model console you have, you can try to see if the hard drive works on it.

I hope this helps.

E68 = HDD critical hardware failure. It will need to be replaced. Any items purchased such as game DLC, avatar items, premium themes, videos, music or anything you spent MS points on can be redownloaded from download history. To access this, press the guide button on your controller, scroll all te way to the right and select account management. Once you move to a different screen select download history and begin downloading. Videos and music will need to be done through Xbox Music and/or Xbox Video. As far as game saves, unfortunately they cannot be recovered. Using the Cloud for those super important game saves are a God send in situations like this, but hindsight is like that. Sorry to hear your issue, there is quite a few of us who have been in your position and truly can feel your pain.

[quote user="PervertedSpider"]Im extremely worried that Ive lost almost seven years of game saves.[/quote]Spinning mechanical storage fails with some frequency, unfortunately.[quote]I dont want to lose thousands of hours of game save data.[/quote]The only way to prevent that is to manually Copy one's saves to a separate storage device (or Cloud Storage).[quote]The customer support agent told me that because I purchased my hard drive separate from my console I only have a 90 day warranty. This cant be true can it?[/quote]It is in the USA. EMEA may have a longer warranty due to consumer protection laws.[quote]The hard drive is only 8 months old and from what the agent said I have to fork out another 100 Euro for another hard drive.[/quote]Assuming strong consumer protection laws in your country, you should be able to go back to the retail shop or online storefront you bought from and exchange it for a replacement.[quote]Im not looking for a new hard drive I just want my game saves back.[/quote]Data recovery is considerably more expensive than replacement of a storage device. It's also not available at this time for the 360 HDD.

You can get them back but you need to buy a new drive and download your profile which shouldn't take long and then you will get your saves and all your money from them back

Did you upload saves to the cloud? If you did, you can download your saves and profiles back. But, if it is all in the hard drive then you have to get it repaired/replaced.