Hey All,
Like others, I'm the same. Upgraded drive to iXtreme, xbox has been collecting dust for a year because I'm tired of burning dvd's, and now I'm here.
From what I've read....and things are constantly changing, the glitch on xbox isn't perfected yet. It could take a minute + for it to boot, if it even does. Cold boots seem to boot faster, for some reason.
For what you can do with it, and from what I've read, is not much. You can boot xell, but there's no dash or freeboot for it yet, so in my eyes, I can't do much with it other than install linux.
I'd be interested to hear where moonphrogg saw they were able to play backups from the HD using the glitch. Again, my info might be wrong. I'd be interested in it, and I'd like to see where he got the info.
Bottom line: All this stuff is brand new, so I believe one day you will be able to load up freeboot (or something like that) and life will be good. But for now, I don't have the knowledge (or time) to compile and install it, so I will wait for somebody else to perfect it first. I appreciate the OP asking because I'm curious about it, but I don't want to flood the thread about the glitch since smarter people are trying to perfect it.