thats true, but not everyone has the skills or knowledge or tools or even money to aquire/build a eeprom reader
i was just asking if they had a softmodded xbox since if they do, they can do it for free, and if they dont, they could just hotswap their hdd, and ndure it, configmagic, then ftp to computer all free.
yeah it might have a few more steps, a little more round about, but i always take the cheapest path