I'm using the special software, but it just won't recognize it. The instructions for that special software are detailed, but not detailed enough to enlighten me as to what is going wrong in my case. I'm hooking it up to SATA on my computer and it's just not recognizing it. In fact, the only drive it recognizes is my BenQ parallel drive as far as the ports. I do see all the drive letter recognized except the one the X-Box might be on. I'll try it on another system when I get another chance; this other system has SATA only and it Win7 and not WinXP, so maybe I'll have better luck.
EDIT: will be trying it on another system next weekend (not this weekend).