I just received a broken xbox from a friend that was a softmodded version 1.0 xbox. The power button stopped working and he thought about tossing it away. I did some research and found a broken trace on the motherboard and fixed the power button problem.

After fixing that I am now getting a error 16 dashboard error. I have read the topics on how to fix the error 16 but to my dismay the hard drive seems to be broken. Is there any way I can retrieve the lock code from the eeprom and install a new hard drive? I have a xenium Gold on order that was going to be used in a different xbox. Can I some how use the xenium temporarily to get the eeprom code and then install a new hard drive? I would like to softmod this unit again when I gain access to the eeprom password. Any help would be greatly appreciated....
shano