Xbox bad HDD
I have a soft-modded Xbox that has a bad HDD. A self-induced bad HDD (I deleted the wrong files), but regardless of my error, it boots to a You need service screen. Is there any recovery from this? I don't know the eeprom to swap another HDD. I was thinking of adding a modchip but my soldering is not good. I've seen the Conductive pens, do they actually work? Even a temp fix is fine I just need the eeprom so I can rebuild the HDD. Perhaps I can buy a modded xbox off ebay and get the eeprom to unlock the HDD. I want another xbox for LANing anyways.
All the fuss is it is nostalgic, I've had it since the Xbox launched. I hate to trash it for my dumb mistake.