Martin, I appreciate your willingness to help us noobs out. As you can see I'm definitely ignorant in this area and am trying to learn and absorb. I think there is a gap in my knowledge on what to do next.
When booting with the power button I get taken to the micro$oft dash.
This is what I'm after at this point; adding more storage then my regular xbox 16g hhd so I can play games directly since the dvd rom in this box is bad. I assumed the first step was performing the RGH which I believe you are confirming is good. I have tried to use
http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77051 but using the USB thumb drive by booting with power or eject doesn't produce any noticeable results.
Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you again!