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[Heimdall]

Both hotswap and gamesave would work equally well. The hotswap method you linked to is old - xboxhdm 1.9 and Kingroach NDURE 3.1 is the latest and most stable hotswap softmod - see mysignature for a summary of softmod with hotswap. For gamesave use Krayzie NDURE 1.1.1

The dash version isn't necessarily an indication that the Xbox was used on Live, although it makes no difference.

Whether you use hotswap or gamesave depends on your skill level and the tools you have available. If you have a method for getting the gamesave onto the Xbox (USB stick plus USB adapter, or memory card plus memory card USB adapter e.g. Action Replay or a modified Xbox controller, or access to another modded Xbox) then that's far easier.

[Heimdall]

It's easier because you don't have to open the Xbox or your PC, and you don't have to find a version of xboxhdm that will work with your PC, and you don't have to hotswap - and remember that hotswapping has a chance of bricking your disk.

All the tutorials are about general use of xboxhdm, and contain lots of options that you don't need. There are two at the top of this section of the board, where you decided to post presumably after doing some reading, so you should have found them already - topics are generally pinned for a reason........

Read the tutorial, and the instructions that come with xboxhdm 1.9 and Kingroach NDURE 3.1. If after that you still don't understand the summary in the link in my signature then you should give up.

[Heimdall]

IDE simply isn't designed for hotswapping - hotswapping can electrically brick the disk before you get anywhere near being able to backup the eeprom.

[Heimdall]

No. It's been deliberately posted, and then left there and added to over the years, just to make you brick your Xbox. Oh no - I wasn't supposed to tell you that..........

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Well I successfully hot swapped.


Now that I have, how do I install a Linux distro?  Do I just burn it or do I need to do some other things first?