360 Disc Drive Problems.

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Chad003

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I have an Arcade unit & every once in a while the disc drive refuses to acknowledge that there's a game in it. I have to try a dozen games before it will start to work again.

My question is...Can I replace this disc drive with the one in my dead 360 or will each drive only work with the box it came in?

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#2
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Chad I'm sure Dr. and BearCat can help you...but I think you can switch them out.. you have to extract your key to the old one and spoof your new drive with it i believe.
 
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i believe you're right gator, it's not just a simple switch them out, each drive is married to that mother board and best i remember reading on it, i think there is something you physically take out of the bad drive and switch out to the good drive to keep them married together. i'll look around and see what i can find out on it.
 
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Wonder if some compressed air would help. Also, might want to try a POTS adjustment on the drive before going through the whole process of swapping. Turning it up a tiny bit might help. If the drive is hacked and used with burned discs, these can be a bit harder to read and should probably be the first disc to stop working.

Never swapped a drive, but it's certainly not just plug and play. xbox-scene would probably be the best play to figure it out.
 
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I have never had to spoof a drive but scene has a lot of tutorials and also robingoods playground has some good ones as well. They also have videos on how to do it
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I finally got fed up with my Arcade unit today & cracked open my old 360 & fixed it for the second time.

The first time I fixed it, it only lasted about a month or so. What's the usual lasting time?

....and for some reason I have more & more extra parts left over every time after I take it apart...weird.
 
#12
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Chad003 said:
I finally got fed up with my Arcade unit today & cracked open my old 360 & fixed it for the second time.

The first time I fixed it, it only lasted about a month or so. What's the usual lasting time?

....and for some reason I have more & more extra parts left over every time after I take it apart...weird.
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The extra parts might be why it only last a month lol. If it rrod again, I would leave the external case off and only have the tray. I did that with mine and it has worked ever since
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