Xbox Live To Play Original Games?

If i buy the hardrive without having xbox live, does that mean i cant play the original xbox games?? can anyone please help as im thinking of buying one whithin the next.....half hour?

much apreciated

 that didnt answer my question......................please anyone with USEFUL informationmarkoos11

you get some Backwards compatibility

download BC updates from here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardscompatibility.htm#disc 

burn them to a CD, and update your console 

Alright, the guy has stated from the first message that he was, in fact, buying the stupid hard drive. Please stop telling him to buy it, he's already going to. All he wanted was to know if orig-xbox games worked w/o xbox live. To answer this, yes they do. If you have not already listened to the one or two useful comments out there then good, but follow the link posted above and burn the backward compatibility list to a CD. When you insert it into your 360 drive, it will automatically install.