I have soft modded mine, but havent worked out the HDD swap process....arent drives locked to the machine?
Have some Monster Cables Scart for it. games looks brilliant esp. Panzer Orta
Lucky git! I've asked around on eBay and pretty much everyone has a 1.6 one that just gives garbled output on a hanful of games

Your Xbox has a unique ID that it password protects your HDD with. On bootup it sends the key to the drive and it unlocks it and sends back a signal saying unlock successful. All you have to do is pluck the key from your Xbox (I think it's a live CD called XboxHDM or something like that) and set the password on your target drive. You can use the same live CD to duplicate your current drive contents across and then create another partition alongside where you can store all of your games.