If your drive won't open at all, you can manually eject the drive.

Repairing Cleaning/Replacing the Gear Band A workaround for this is to press the eject button, insert the disc, then reboot the Xbox at which point it will load up the disc.Ī Samsung SDG-605B, SD-616F, or SD-616T drive or an LG GDR-8163B can be flashed with custom firmware to be able to read Xbox games. Philips and Hitachi drives appear to have the lowest rate of failure, but due to their age, all drives have fairly high failure rates now, though ones that were manufactured later in the Xbox's production cycle could potentially last longer due to possibly having less wear.Īny non-Xbox IDE DVD drive can be used in the system, but it will only be able to read burned media and the Xbox will no longer be able to detect a disc inserted or eject from the dashboard. DVD drives are interchangeable, allowing you to put any drive from another Xbox into your own. Some drives, especially Thomson drives that came with the first two Xbox versions (1.0 and 1.1), may present you with a 'dirty disc' error requiring the drive to be repaired or replaced. Generally, the drives appear in Xboxes as follows: The views of the moderation team do not reflect the view of Microsoft or its subsidiaries.You can identify your current DVD drive without opening the console by looking at the disc tray and comparing it to this image. Note: We are not affiliated with Microsoft or its subsidiaries in any official capacity. Showoff Sunday - all pictures of achievements, gamerscore, controllers, custom art/mods, battle stations, and so forth are only allowed as posts on Sundays. posts must be within the weekly megathread. and posts must be properly tagged or they will be removed.

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