QUOTE(cain683 @ Mar 8 2011, 08:44 AM)

I figured I would try my hand at formatting the HDD using Xboxhdm and making a new HDD to softmod. Followed the tutorial, made the new drive and I am still recieving error 05. This is probably because I formatted the 100GB HDD that was installed with the modded one
No, you are getting Error 5 because you are booting a stock BIOS and you haven't locked the disk. To lock the disk you need the eeprom from the motherboard, plus xboxhdm. To get the eeprom, you need a working chip, or an eeprom reader - see the link in my signature.