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Unable to read disc

  • 18-11-2009 1:44pm
    #1
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,364 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    I bought a second hand xbox 360 recently for not much money
    the reason it was cheap was because when you insert a game/dvd etc it comes up reading first of all then after about 20-30secs a message just comes up to open tray, now I was just wondering has anyone else came across this problem and how did they fix it or did they ever get it fixed
    no rrod or anything on it

    Cheers for reading


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  • #2
    agriffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭agriffin


    yes i've come across a good few like this.
    If you are willing to open it you will need to adjust one of the pots on the laser and give the lens a clean while your in their.

    if your drive is not dead for some other reason this should get it reading discs again.

    their are many guides on google for adjusting the pots as its a common problem.


  • #3
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,364 ✭✭✭campo


    thanks man I will give that a go and see does it work


  • #4
    AdMMM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭AdMMM


    Are you able to install any game?


  • #5
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,364 ✭✭✭campo


    nope tried every game all said the same thing reading then open tray same with DVDs , I even tried the lense cleaner thing but no joy


  • #6
    animaX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭animaX


    If you had a hard-drive with your games already installed on it, I wonder would the xbox still verify the disk (in the first few seconds) and then continue to run the game from the hard-drive? I would give that a shot. Bring your games and HD to a friend and install to HD using his xbox. It could work :confused:


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  • #7
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,364 ✭✭✭campo


    that would be great but unfortuantly no hd but cheers going to invest in one anyway so maybe when I do that would be a good work


  • #8
    jenno86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭jenno86


    animaX wrote: »
    If you had a hard-drive with your games already installed on it, I wonder would the xbox still verify the disk (in the first few seconds) and then continue to run the game from the hard-drive? I would give that a shot. Bring your games and HD to a friend and install to HD using his xbox. It could work :confused:

    If you install game(s) on your Hard-drive with your friends 360 your you won't be able to play them your own 360. Games have to be played to the console which was used to install them. Pain the the arsé really, specially if you have 2 360's and transfer one HD to the other regularly.


  • #9
    animaX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭animaX


    jenno86 wrote: »
    If you install game(s) on your Hard-drive with your friends 360 your you won't be able to play them your own 360. Games have to be played to the console which was used to install them. Pain the the arsé really, specially if you have 2 360's and transfer one HD to the other regularly.

    Ah, kinda figured microsoft might do some crap like that. Out of curiosity, if I install a disk on my HD and then lose the disk, can a different disk still play the game on the HD or are the installations specific to one disk? (sorry for going off topic)


  • #10
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    animaX wrote: »
    Ah, kinda figured microsoft might do some crap like that. Out of curiosity, if I install a disk on my HD and then lose the disk, can a different disk still play the game on the HD or are the installations specific to one disk? (sorry for going off topic)

    All games discs are pressed from the same master copy, so would be pretty much identical, don't think it would be possible for a console to tell the difference between 2 copies of the same game.
    Shouldn't be a problem


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