Okay, I've searched around all over the scene to try and understand to the best of my ability if what I believe the correct way to go about doing this is right.
I recently bought a second Xbox because my friend wants to buy the one I have now from me. I made the mistake of creating my Live! account on the old Xbox before upgrading my HD, but I never went on to Live! after the upgrade so I beleive I should be safe from being previously banned. With this new Xbox I want to go about it the right way by upgrading the HD first before I recover the account on it (Because of current Marriage Theory of eeprom.bin and HD serial number being linked after installation of Live!).
1. Softmod stock HD with NDURE installer.
2. FTP into stock HD and copy the eeprom.bin to the linux>eeprom folder in xboxhdm 1.9 as well as copy the entire modded C:\ from the Xbox to the xboxhdm's linux>C folder.
3. Make the bootable disc for xboxhdm and do the proceedure to unlock and lock the drive as well as create the Xbox partitions for the new HD and copy over the files for the Xbox C:\ drive and eeprom.bin file from the xboxhdm boot disc.
4. After doing the steps to set up the new HD for use, put the new HD back into the xbox and boot up.
5. Revert back to retail state by switching the softmod off.
6. Access the Live! account recovery feature and re-activeate my XBL account from my older Xbox.
7. Enjoy XBL with retail games by cold booting games with the eject button using the dual retail multiboot, almost worry free of being banned. (I know it isn't 100% fool proof)
That is how I believe its supposed to be done, but I'm not 100% positive. The tutorial for xboxhdm by Kingroach says to put the Slayer's C:\ content onto the xboxhdm linux>C folder for the bootable disc, but I remember putting the modified files from the modded stock HD into the linux>C folder when i upgraded the HD on the older Xbox. I'd appriciate it if anyone can confirm if what I think is the way to do it is correct. Thank you guys for your time, I know its a long post.
Oh and if it matters, the old Xbox was a 1.6. The one I just bought is a 1.6b or whatever version the ones manufactured on April of 2005 are.