Thought I'd come back to update for future reference. It appears the hotswap process corrupted the bios and that resulted in the frag. I installed the aladdin chip and was able to boot the xbox afterwards. The next step is to flash a new bios. I will get a second aladdin chip and go the m7 route to ...

Good afternoon - I have a v1 xbox that had a bad hdd. It would boot fine and display the "contact support" error without a code. Before I had a better idea of what the heck i was doing i was trying a hot swap to see if xplorer360 would read the drive. The hot swap didn't work after several...