Hi king, Yes I tried hot swap with no success...But I think I messed 1 of my xboxs up a couple months back when i tried using hdd driver to do bert and ernie exp...Back then i could hotswap the xbox and get it unlocked 9 out of 10 times...And i think i something got corrupt on this 1...But now i have a shiny new box and want to softmod it...but i want to make sure i have created the hdm sm disk rite...Cause with no xbox hard drive hooked up the disk wont boot up is this normal??Also got the package from the usual places and in your tut you mention sminstaller which is not in the package i got...But everything else is there fonts,nk,evox.