New To Modding (apologize For Being The Newbie), modding Options

[electricpoet41]

I just got an Xbox360 from a friend it was just sent back from Microsoft and fixed. I have some questions about modding the 360 to read copied games or games off the hard drive.

1) Is there a difference between Modding and Flashing? What are the advantages? If I won't be using xbox live, does it matter one way over the other?

2) Replacing the HDD, whats the biggest HDD you can put in there, what are the requirements, are there only certain drives that work? When installing it do you have to set anything specific up?

3) If you want to put the games directly on a Drive instead of on DVDs how is this done, are they iso or a certain xbox file format (which im assuming its a special xbox file format just dont know the name). Can the xbox read the files from a portable drive? If not can you copy over the games from a portable drive to the xbox harddrive?

As you can see I am very new to this and any information would be very helpful.

also, if Flashing is different than modding, and you have to mod, what is the best solderless modchip to use? Do they work with all xbox versions? Thanks again!

[electricpoet41]

Thanks for that information, so what tools are required to Flash the dvd-drive? Is there an exact step by step instructions that you know where I can follow to do this?

If you flash the dvd-drive and mess up, anyway to revert back?

I just looked at my xbox and it looks like i have BENQ VAD6038. Mine looks like this one http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/repair/dvd_d...vd_tray_500.jpg