Believe me, I tried that. The hard drive got corrupted somehow as well and have not been able to access it with the adapter cable.Why did you have to start all over? You should've been able to just move your original hdd to the new Xbox. Alternatively, if your new Xbox was the S model and your first Xbox was an earlier model, you could've bought a hdd transfer cable to move the save files from your original hdd to the new one.