Little Help Here, guide seems to skip over the stuff Options

[brandenpro]

I finally flashed my x2.2lite with the 4981.06 Bios. I have a wrt54G linksys but i am just running a long cat5 to the xbox for now. When can I backup my original xbox drive? The tut seems to skip over the very things i dont understand. Do I burn and load up a Avalaunch DVD in the xbox then backup? I know this is probably explained many times but my brain is fried. I have lost all track of what the hell im doing ive read so many threads and tuts. The bios is flashed can I now ftp into the xbox from flashfxp on my desktop? I tried to connect but i might not have done it right. Also have 120gb maxtor ready to go in, but should i get the dashboard up and running on the original xbox drive first? I wish there was a step by step with a link to tuts for each step. So then I could just mark off each one as I go. Please help Im stuck.

[DOOBIOUS]

Yeah I know what you're going through. That is a yes to your first question. You're definitely going to have to get Avalaunch up and running before you put in your new drive. You're going to have to do it because you need to backup your original hard drive contents onto your pc. That way you'll be able to download your backup hard drive to your new one. Check your settings and find your ip address. Check to make sure your password info is correct. Make sure the user name is xbox and password is xbox, all in lower case. Make sure your avalaunch.xml file is configured to your specs.

[Ichijoe]

You do not have to necessarily backup any drive to install a newer (i.e. larger HDD), that BS. You'd only have to do that if you wanted to backup your Save Games, Backups and Soundtracks provided that you don't have any of this stuff. or you don't need it on the new Drive just get an Evox / Avalaunch? (do any exist) install CD's (i.e. Slayers 2.5) and just run that on the new Drive and you will have a working Drive in less then Three Minutes.

I know 'couse I had no choice when my old 8~10GB stock Seagate Drive got fried during a misfortunite Hotswap with the PC. The upshot of which is that I now have an 80GB HDD in the Xbox!