Microsoft faces new Xbox 360 reliability accusations - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games
They never cease to amaze me!
They never cease to amaze me!
This isn't a new fix, this only applies to old systems with the first-gen drives (Toshiba-Samsung if I'm not mistaken). Mine has one of these drives and, while I had it apart fixing it, put some scratches in my Guitar Hero 3 disc when I accidentally lifted the drive up (had it sitting kinda diagonally off the side of the console, which was torn apart.
Luckily my GH3 disc still works for the most part. Sometimes it isn't recognized but once it is it plays fine, and I backed it up to HDD so I don't lose the game if it gets more scratches. I got the game from my friend anyways and he had already put some scratches in it, so no big deal. I know not to move it while I have games in it (I always turn the thing all the way off before moving it!) and it's worked out fine thus far.
I guess if I really wanted to, having already rendered my console's warranty void (well...it was given to me for free, and the warranty doesn't transfer), I could take it apart and splice in some rubber pads, I could salvage some from a dead PC drive or something, apparently they only cost 50 cents.