I was just showing the info from the top post, there is other info in that thread regarding SmartXX's potential fix. When I was reading on the hard drive detection, I thought there would have to be a way to trick it. Obviously each drive is going to have an ID string associated with it to identify. If they are only using a handful of drive models and they query against the drive and find you are running something else, they can consider the system modded. I don't bother with XBox Live, while the idea is nice, you can still use tunneling software for quite a few of the Live enabled games.