After a massively traumatizing accident involving my console falling all the way from an upright position to a horizontal one, it is no longer capable of reading discs... Various reboots and attempts at a noninvasive fix have merely caused it to swap between simply saying unreadable disc to the screen where it states to put the disc in a 360 to play it. Currently, the warranty is void, and I'd be more than a little bit reluctant to deal with Microsoft's "customer service" anyways to get it fixed. In other words, I'm faced with fixing it myself, paying a third party to do it, or trashing a system I've had for less than a week. At present, I'm assuming the problem is localized in the disc drive, and am looking at simply replacing the thing myself. I would however like to have it confirmed if possible that I'm headed in the right direction and/or hear any alternatives before I potentially waste time and money.
why is the warranty void? if there is no physical damage from the drop MS are very unlikely to consider this being any different from a within-warranty drive failure.
While we're at it, I understand the drive will require a firmware installation "flashing" before replacement, any advice on that field?
you'll need a drive for the xbox 360: other drives don't work AFAIK. flashing the firmware is not necessary unless you want to do illegal stuff! EDIT: oops, google proves me wrong. although this might be of assistance: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=565113
There are legitimate and perfectly legal reasons to want to be able to play burned discs. Although, somehow I don't think a significant percentage claiming such are being honest.
bypassing copy protection == against the law. evn for backups, unfortunately. yeah i know, what the hell happened to fair use, eh?
Between the 360's penchant for chewing through discs, and most companies refusal to even bother swapping to more scratch resistant disc surfaces, that is more than a little idiotic. Hmm, its almost as if they want us to shell out 100+ per game to keep playing the longer/more enjoyable ones. At some point, they've got to realize that the only thing they're doing is making it more desirable for the more honest folks to give in and go underground so to speak. For instance, plenty of people I know download hacked software all the time, after purchasing the title and leaving the original copy in the box to molder. Simply because the more stringent protections are practically designed to hurt the user.
