can u connect a few wires, turn on one xbox and have flahs the others TSOP?

plz help!

i ask b/c my cuz's xbox's HDD is fucked, and i need to flash his bios so he car run an unlockale drive i have formatted (40 gig, and no locking, so it can run on flashed bios)

Get. A. Chip.

yup, which one do u recomend, he doesnt need anything good, he doesnt even want XB live, just needs 1 like 512K or 256K bios so it runs thats it, no soldering pin adapter would be nice too

let me tell you what I did cause I was in similiar situation as yours. For me, my hd failed before I could flash my nephews TSOP. I went to a friends house that had installed a mod chip and he still had his original (msdash) hdd. I tossed his original hd into his modded xbox and unlocked it. Then I took an xtra mod chip that I keep on hand and installed it temporarily into my nephews xbox and booted up the unlocked hdd. Then locked his hd and took out my modchip. The xbox booted up perfectly after that and I was able to continue the tsop flash. However you have to have a modchip handy for that. I mod so many xboxes now that I keep a solderless mod chip on hand just in case.

Sorry if this isn't much help (cause you really need a mod chip to do it) but hey... I tried