Xbox games wont boot

[ReD_rUm982]

ok so:

this one game you 'hired' (im assuming u meant rented or bought used) isnt working cuz its scratched. this could be because:

A. its scratched bad enough for it not to be read by the xbox.
B. theres a prob with ur dvd drive
C. u got rid of the normal ms dash and just have linux
D. theres an actual problem with the software on the disk


options B and C are out, B. because you can play audio cds and C. because you can play backups. so its either A or D. D sounds ridiculous, but i bought a game from blockbuster (unreal championship) and it had no scratches at all. it wouldnt play in my xbox though. i took it back and the guy said it had prob been exposed to a magnet or something.(i thought that magnets deleting disks was a rumor, but whatever ) what you can try doing is loading up a file manager (if you use avalaunch or unleashx use the built in one, if not i highly recommend boXplorer) and going to the D drive. if there really arent that many scratches, you should see the files on the disk. if the data was somehow destroyed, you will not see the files (or at most some of the files. if it was hanging on the black screen, assuming the data was somehow destroyed,it was missing AT LEAST the default.xbe file)

once youve looked at D:\ post back here and tell us what u found.

[slayer_ps]

in d drive it has
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Bios(folder)
Skin (Folder)
Trainers (Folder)
default.xbe
EvolutionX Build 3921.nfo
evox.ini
items.txt
readme.txt
and thats with a xbox cd in it

[slayer_ps]

basicly, scratched audio cdr cds work but orignal scratched xbox games dont work does it sound like the laser

[Quall999]

no, it sounds like the game is scratched too much. Not every disk is exactly the same. Just because you have a scratched music cd that plays, doesn't mean all other scratched disks will. If it doesn't play, and others do, it is because the disk is scratched too much or defective in some other way. You probably won't get it to load unless you have a sammy drive, or hacked PC sammy drive.

[slayer_ps]

i have a samsung drive, wat do u mean by hacked though?

[Quall999]

hmm, well, if you have a samsung drive, then the reason has to be because it is scratched too much. There is a specific PC drive that can be flashed with new firware to play in the xbox. It reads all media like a PC would, with no limitations.