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Subject: Disc Not Reading

There are those who said this day would never come, What are they to say now?


Posted by: ronan1555
What is alaunch version 360.
I have a 20gig with a silver disk tray it worked for halo 3 and odst will it work for reach


Mine is currently playing it

  • 09.14.2010 5:42 PM PDT


Posted by: ronan1555
Does it matter what year we got it in


No it just matters on the console's version and therefore it's age i think

  • 09.14.2010 5:42 PM PDT

Tim

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your xbox MIGHT suck.

  • 09.14.2010 5:43 PM PDT


Posted by: SpartenOmega117
is it possible to fix this problem? or d we have to buy a new xbox?


So far i've tried everything short of taking my 360 apart and trying to clean the lense but it looks like we need new xbox's :/

  • 09.14.2010 5:44 PM PDT
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just to let everyone know, i have the new slim 250gb and my disc didnt read. AFTER MAJOR DETERMINATION OF OPENING AND CLOSING etc, etc eventually i was sitting in the XBOX lobby and it said play halo reach and then i went to install to Harddrive. after it installed it worked!! Returned the disc to gamestop and they exchanged it and IT IS NOT YOUR CONSOLE! IT IS THE DISC! to be honest i played all night but i think it was due to the game being on the HDD. Although you still need the disc it worked for me. I dont know if my new copy is even any good bc i do not have another 360 to test on. What if its another bad copy and my xbox is just reading it because its already on there and just needs the disc present to work

anyways exchange your disc

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  • 09.14.2010 5:44 PM PDT

I think Bungie is not the problem. I have an Xbox 360 Halo 3 Edition and I have been experiencing some "disc read" problems.

Modern Warfare 2 cant be played on my console. I changed the game at least 3 times and none of it worked. Then I started to experience problems with my Halo 3 copy.

Now Im experiencing problems with Reach. I think it must be the DVD drive because I have seen that kind of behavior on PCs with Samsung drives.

Also every disc runs fine on the very first Xbox 360 console and on the 2nd release of it. The later been repaired after RROD.

  • 09.14.2010 5:45 PM PDT


Posted by: The Reak Ceeza
just to let everyone know, i have the new slim 250gb and my disc didnt read. AFTER MAJOR DETERMINATION OF OPENING AND CLOSING etc, etc eventually i was sitting in the XBOX lobby and it said play halo reach and then i went to install to Harddrive. after it installed it worked!! Returned the disc to gamestop and they exchanged it and IT IS NOT YOUR CONSOLE! IT IS THE DISC! to be honest i played all night but i think it was due to the game being on the HDD. Although you still need the disc it worked for me. I dont know if my new copy is even any good bc i do not have another 360 to test on. What if its another bad copy and my xbox is just reading it because its already on there and just needs the disc present to work

anyways exchange your disc


I think you got lucky cause it must be the console since the odds that all these people (including me) got two bad discs that work on other xbox's but not theirs must be about one in a trillion

  • 09.14.2010 5:46 PM PDT

how can it suck when it plays everything else just fine....

To the person who has the 20Gig that works, did you buy yours as soon as it came out or did you get it a little bit after because i know they had like a 2nd wave of 20G consoles didn't they?

Either way i'm really concerned that microsoft are just going to say... sorry, you're just going to have to buy a new xbox
Worries me that bungie have not yet addressed this issue here, although they probably haven't finished swimming in their sea of money like scrooge mcquack

  • 09.14.2010 5:47 PM PDT


Posted by: Necromancer
I think Bungie is not the problem. I have an Xbox 360 Halo 3 Edition and I have been experiencing some "disc read" problems.

Modern Warfare 2 cant be played on my console. I changed the game at least 3 times and none of it worked. Then I started to experience problems with my Halo 3 copy.

Now Im experiencing problems with Reach. I think it must be the DVD drive because I have seen that kind of behavior on PCs with Samsung drives.

Also every disc runs fine on the very first Xbox 360 console and on the 2nd release of it. The later been repaired after RROD.


Halo reach is the only disc i have had "disk is unreadable" on that has no scratches so i doubt it's the laser and more likely it's the CPU or something

  • 09.14.2010 5:48 PM PDT

Don't most people have white xbox's with white/silver tray covers?

Anyway my xbox is the pro version(white with silver tray) and it's mfr date is 2006/08/07. It's a replacement xbox which I got when my original one red ringed.
A quick google search revealed that the xbox 360 was launched on nov 22 2005 so it was manufactured a good 10 months after the first batch. Would you guys say this is a launch version console?
I've pre ordered the limited edition but I haven't paid anything for it yet, should I cancel the order?

Any answers would be appreciated.

  • 09.14.2010 5:50 PM PDT

SpartenOmega117

how big do you guys think this problem is? because if it is just a few of us, microsoft wouldn't care

  • 09.14.2010 5:50 PM PDT

it's definitely the consoles, as has been said many times, we have swapped discs, tried it in newer consoles, even 60G pro's and still it works on theirs but not on ours.. he even put the disc in at the shop and even loaded a saved checkpoint from their xbox straight up without any problems.
Hurry up we need a solution

  • 09.14.2010 5:51 PM PDT


Posted by: SpartenOmega117
how big do you guys think this problem is? because if it is just a few of us, microsoft wouldn't care


I called Microsoft support but couldn't get through because their lines were swarmed with people all reporting the same problem

  • 09.14.2010 5:52 PM PDT

Join winter contingency

Its gud

Do the 2007+ consoles work

  • 09.14.2010 5:53 PM PDT

Hopefully bungie and microsoft will see how big the problem is and do something about it :/

  • 09.14.2010 5:53 PM PDT


Posted by: FalconBladeX
Don't most people have white xbox's with white/silver tray covers?

Anyway my xbox is the pro version(white with silver tray) and it's mfr date is 2006/08/07. It's a replacement xbox which I got when my original one red ringed.
A quick google search revealed that the xbox 360 was launched on nov 22 2005 so it was manufactured a good 10 months after the first batch. Would you guys say this is a launch version console?
I've pre ordered the limited edition but I haven't paid anything for it yet, should I cancel the order?

Any answers would be appreciated.


I wouldn't cancel becuase it may seem a lot of people are getting errors and there is but a lot of people aren't and are busy on the game so not posting about it. And if it doesn't work you can always get a refund

  • 09.14.2010 5:53 PM PDT

the only way to know for sure about whether your console will or will not play it is to just try the game and hope for the best...

I think that being such a big title for the company they would wanna take notice of the situation not to mention it's a hot topic and the moderators should hopefully make some kind of an announcement you would think

  • 09.14.2010 5:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: HydroConzie

Posted by: SpartenOmega117
is it possible to fix this problem? or d we have to buy a new xbox?


So far i've tried everything short of taking my 360 apart and trying to clean the lense but it looks like we need new xbox's :/


Damn. Thought so. Well this kinda sucks.

  • 09.14.2010 5:54 PM PDT


Posted by: ronan1555
Do the 2007+ consoles work


There is no definitive answer, only a portion of people with the launch version are having errors but it's still a lot. You'll just have to hope for the best

  • 09.14.2010 5:55 PM PDT

Join winter contingency

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Posted by: HydroConzie

Posted by: ronan1555
Do the 2007+ consoles work


There is no definitive answer, only a portion of people with the launch version are having errors but it's still a lot. You'll just have to hope for the best

*crosses fingers*

  • 09.14.2010 5:56 PM PDT

i'm in Australia so i'm about to call support and see how i go with this... i'll let you all know how i end up, i'll try speak to someone who has some kind of authority and not some desk monkey

  • 09.14.2010 5:56 PM PDT

is it possible to fix this problem? or d we have to buy a new xbox?

So far i've tried everything short of taking my 360 apart and trying to clean the lense but it looks like we need new xbox's :/

Damn. Thought so. Well this kinda sucks.


Well hopefully Bungie can do something about it. Hoping for an update!

  • 09.14.2010 5:57 PM PDT

I will also try phoning microsoft support but it's 2am here in dull,rainy scotland so try keep this thread alive and i'll see you all later :)

  • 09.14.2010 5:57 PM PDT

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Its lovely how Bungie hasnt even said that they are aware of this issue or if they have even looked at this topic.

  • 09.14.2010 5:58 PM PDT

Join winter contingency

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Posted by: HydroConzie
I will also try phoning microsoft support but it's 2am here in dull,rainy scotland so try keep this thread alive and i'll see you all later :)

Its 2 am in exiting rainy Ireland as-well

  • 09.14.2010 6:00 PM PDT