XBOX Hard Drive, lol

I've come into possession of a Hard Drive ripped out of an (original) XBOX.

Are they usable at all in windows? I've done a little research so far but not come across any help. It's a western digital drive, I see there's a different drive used in other generations of the XBOX.

The Original mothereboard of the XBOX it came from is, uh, kind of destroyed/ I heard something about needing it perhaps, but that it kind of impossible.

Is there any way I can use this drive then? If the person had told me he was destroying his XBOX I would have told him to be a little less ruthless with it, but oh well. It'd be pretty neat as a way to swap data with friends.

Or is it just essentially a paperweight? =p

Jam it back in, in the dark.