i just had my xbox soft modded by a friend. i installed a 40gb drive intially. i want to eventually upgrade to a larger drive. is it possible to take out the hard drive in my xbox and clone it to a new drive and then install that?

because its a softmod, its more complicated then that. the harddrive you put in has to be locked to the xbox your putting it in, before you can put it in. with a tsop flashed xbox, it would be as simple as what you described. since you already have a 40 gig in there, its obvious your friend knows what he's doing so either have him solder the 2 spots on your motherboard and flash your tosp, or have him upgrade it for you.

well, he isn't around anymore so it will be hard to do that. how difficult is it to lock it to the drive?

get xboxhdm
follow the faq and itll work
i took mine with a softmod and put a 200gig maxtor in it just make sure you lock the drive when your done

Yeah xboxhdm is they way to go for upgrading HD, it how I did it with my softmodded xbox

now, will this let me keep everything i have installed i.e. roms and games or am i gonna lose this stuff?

another question. my brother has an xbox as well that he wants modded. could i just do both drives with the same xboxhdm procedures?

xboxhdm is the way to go. just have it not format when it asks

u shouldnt but i would ftp everything out that you may wanna keep just in case

so i will be able to mod my brother's xbox like this as well then?