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Posted by: Uejji
Posted by: Spartan2447
Posted by: Uejji
Posted by: MakoStorm
Posted by: Uejji
Well, I bought Reach from Newegg. It arrived and my 360 would not recognize it as a game -- it would always recognize it as a DVD, a CD or not at all. After reading through this thread I saw the boiling technique, so I figured "why not?"
I boiled my disc for a couple of minutes, cleaned it off with some pumped hand soap (I guess something from the pot I was using got onto the disc because it looked grimy after boiling), cleaned it off with tap water, dried it off, and afterwards it seems to be working fine.
I'm about 25% installing it right now, so we'll see.
I think at the point where customers are putting their media into boiling water to clean them, is where we officially say, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG HERE.
You are hardcore, I dont boil water to eat much less clean a disc, at that point, its Bungie's problem.
87% done installing now...
I pretty much just pumped some directly onto the disc and using my fingertip and gently spiraled it around the disc. I used my t-shirt with a center-to-rim motion to dry it off.
95% done now.
EDIT: Sorry. Meant to reply and quote RIP rasalibre
So how does this boiling technique work? Do you put it into a pot or something?
Basically I just put about a couple of inches of water into a pot, put it on a burner on high and walked away for a couple of minutes. When it was boiling I dropped the Reach disc in, and a few seconds later took it off the burner and walked away for another couple of minutes. I came back, extracted it, noticed it looked grimy so I cleaned it, and it worked after the fact.
This whole situation is screwed up, I agree, but at least I can apparently play Reach now. I'm at least happy for that.
EDIT: I should mention that the disc did sink to the bottom of the pot after I took it off the burner, so I carefully used a butter knife to pry the disc up and flip it over shiny side up. Don't know if that made a difference or not.
Yeah that sounds too complex for me, I'll just wait since campaign is slowly starting to work for me. I don't want to risk harm to the disc