hey i actually used the hot swap on one my xbox's an it died....well its just broke cause something went wrong an sense i did it that way there was no eeprom.bin saved so its pretty sketchy.... i did it with my other xbox right after an i used a pre made C and E an just hot swapped it an used XBOXHDM an seriously just repleced the C and E on the the second one an it worked 100 percent an after that i went an got the eeprom but seriously if one thing gose wrong... its done