xbox hard drive fu***d

hey im a noob at this like no other and i hope some one can help me. My xbox was great then i had do mess with it. (my fault) But like a good little boy i did my research but i never looked into this part of it. I forgot to ftp the box and so when i wash playing around with unleashx i deleted the dashboard and now the hard drive is gone im getting a error 16 which is for the dashboard not being there(or it's cuz it can get to the clock set on the dashboard) so i had an old hard drive thats a 10gig and i thought i could place the files on it and insert it into my xbox and be back up and running. but an ways this is what i want to know.

1: did i mess up so bbad that i can't go back
2: is there any one out there that can send me or tell me where to get the files so i can put them on the new hard drive so i can just pop it back in and go
3: can i just take somthing like xbmc and place the files on a xbox and be good to go from there
4: can some one help me

 

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/548462

You should be able to fix your xbox with the hotswap method.