if i wanted to restart my xbox from stratch, how would i accomplish this. i have a xenium ice in there, and a 200gb HDD, is there a way to reformat the hdd so that is had ONLY what i bought the xbox with (xbox dash)

im thinking of doing this because for some reason it freezes whenever i do anything that involves the internet (even in MS boot) like network setting, or xbox live

Quickie fix would be to boot Slayers 2.6 and run Menu Item 3b2) RESTORE RETAIL XBOX HD TO FACTORY.

Even if you have a large drive, that's the command you want (despite the info line it gives you when you run it). It'll format all partitions, even F:, and reinstall a stock MS Dash, v5965.

Alternatively, just use the Xenium OS to format each HDD partition, and then reinstall the MS dash yourself from backup, or use Slayer's command 4a10.

where could i get slayers 2.6? the "usual places"?

Yes.. you can get a starting point there. Or try slayer.xbox-scene.com.