How to fix scratch xbox 360 games.

[007useless]

If you somehow manage to scratch one of you favorite 360 game, I figured out a way to fix it. Just have a friend come over who has the same game and put his disc in the console. Then install his game to you hard drive. Than once it is completed put your game in the 360. (note your game must able to at least be read EX: Play Halo 3) If it at least say to play halo 3 than your good to go. Just play the game now. If your disc is to scratch up to even be read. Than just a new game.

[RobertGraham]

So pretty much, all your saying is, if you cant read the disk, install the game, and put the disk that doesnt work back in and if it doesnt work, get a new one? Why not just get a new one then instead of going through all that?

[Rentafence]

Why not just get a new one then instead of going through all that?

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[Limited]

I did this last week for my GTA 4. Both my housemates have the game as well as I do. But my disk is scratched and cant get past loading screen, luckily it still recognises my disk as being GTA 4. So I just borrowed their disk and installed to hard drive.

You could also rent the game and do it that way.

[RobertGraham]

Thats what I love about that feature though, because I can go to Blockbuster and play it forever >=D

[Pooky]

Thats what I love about that feature though, because I can go to Blockbuster and play it forever >=D

Yeah, because Microsoft totally wouldn't have thought of that :downs:

[Limited]

Thats what I love about that feature though, because I can go to Blockbuster and play it forever >=D
If you have the legit disk though..It checks to make sure its in the drive but just doesnt read from it.

Also I only have the 20GB version, so I have a few demos and GTA 4 installed, only have 1.1GB left.

[007useless]

If you have the legit disk though..It checks to make sure its in the drive but just doesnt read from it.

Also I only have the 20GB version, so I have a few demos and GTA 4 installed, only have 1.1GB left.

Buy the 60GB harddrive pack. Its only $100 bucks plus it comes with a mic that you could sell if you have one already and 3 months of xbl.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Heres something you can do, simply install the game to the hard drive, then when the game is in play, do the paperclip trick to quick eject the disk whilst its still in the drive, and you can play the game without it being in the box :)

[Limited]

Heres something you can do, simply install the game to the hard drive, then when the game is in play, do the paperclip trick to quick eject the disk whilst its still in the drive, and you can play the game without it being in the box :)
Yes but 1. I dont want to f the disk up any more and 2 I dont really want to keep my Xbox on 24/7 just to be able to play the one game.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

It wont mess up the disk, because when the game is launched, the disk stops spinning, and it wont mess up the disk, because it is doing the same process it would have before, just physically, rather than mechanically.

[sdavis117]

I thought Microsoft had a program where they would replace disks if they were scratched by the 360's disk drive.

[RobertGraham]

No, unfortunate, all they will do is refund the money that you got for the game, and that works too... lol

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

They need to refund my Cod4 and Cod5 Disks then :(

[Terin]

There is a program to replace certain 360 discs, such as Halo 3 and Gears of War for $20, but it's pretty limited. I did it before for my Halo 3 disc, and am going to have to do it again in this case, seeing as the console can't recognize the disc at all, unless there's some other way.

EDIT: It might help to include a list of the games, I figure. (http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/nxe/GamesandMedia/Games/DiscReplacement/DiscReplacement.aspx)

[Sel]

If you somehow manage to scratch one of you favorite 360 game, I figured out a way to fix it. Just have a friend come over who has the same game and put his disc in the console. Then install his game to you hard drive. Than once it is completed put your game in the 360. (note your game must able to at least be read EX: Play Halo 3) If it at least say to play halo 3 than your good to go. Just play the game now. If your disc is to scratch up to even be read. Than just a new game.

Uhhhh, no shit?

[007useless]

Uhhhh, no shit?

lolz calm down. some people don't know this

[SnaFuBAR]

http://www.libraryjournal.com/articles/images/LJ/20050914/LBDpicks_CD_Resurfacer.jpg

heh

[ThePlague]

What the shit is that?

[Bastinka]

Buy the 60GB harddrive pack. Its only $100 bucks.
Just 100 bones?
Man thats like penny money.


You could always just buy a disk-descratcher, for me the local video rental shop has one of them. Only costs $2.00 to descratch a disk, unless you have deep scratches it wont be able to be fixed. Works.

[Darqeness]

One of my friends scratched up his Halo 3 disk pretty bad (knocked his 360 off a desk onto a concrete floor - the disk was scratched but the console was fine, go figure). He just took the disk down to a video rental store and paid about $5(Aus) and it took them about 15 minutes to get it fixed up. The disk has run perfectly ever since.

[t3h m00kz]

http://www.libraryjournal.com/articles/images/LJ/20050914/LBDpicks_CD_Resurfacer.jpg

heh

holy fuck I had one of those once

and tbh, I don't know if it fixed my shit or not

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Frankly, it just makes it worse :(

[RobertGraham]

lol, where can I buy one?

[ExAm]

Your local big chain video rental store almost certainly has a hardcore industrial disk buffer. It usually costs just a few bucks to have them buff the scratches out of the disk. If you're near a Game Crazy, they actually give out coupons for this sort of thing.

E: Curse you SilentWind for causing me to question my habit of replying to threads based on the content of the first post alone! http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/emot-argh.gif

[Llama Juice]

Heres something you can do, simply install the game to the hard drive, then when the game is in play, do the paperclip trick to quick eject the disk whilst its still in the drive, and you can play the game without it being in the box :)

This doesn't work by the way. I tried it last night to no avail.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

I suggest you wait about 30 seconds or so, after the game starts to do it, thats what I do, but I dont have to do the paperclip part, my box is open :downs:

[RobertGraham]

EDIT: Please Ignore this Post.

[SilentChaos]

if you have a Hollywood Video in your area you can take your disc to the gamecrazy inside the store. They have a disc buffer that will take rings and scratches almost all the way off. $2 for any disc. Worked for me.