Don't attempt a sofmod and complain later if u don't even know what ur eeprom is.
DEFENETLY DONT BITCH OR SCREAM "HELP ME NOW".
Once u have acces to ur xbox HD, get a savegame on it and ms dash. Get it off slayers 2.6, but dont run the disk as it is for chipped boxes!
The recover ur eeprom and use a different HD to test ur exploit set up etc.
This HD must me lockable.
USE THE TUTORIALS!
There's a link to lists with HD's that can be locked.
There a tutorial on xboxHDM (the program makes plane sense..)
The readme from the UXE pack explains how to set up an exploit.
Forget the boot disk. There's one copy of it as far as i know, and MS prob. got it back by now, for some absurd amount of money. If not, nobody will sell it.. def not for 5 bucks.