Hey guys, over the past few days I haven't done much on my 360 besides play Castle Crashers and Halo 1 ("trying" to play Halo 1 is more like it). I'm playing through the entire Halo story with my brother since he's never done it before and we both thought it would be fun. He's played multiplayer a lot, but never the story. I recently re-bought Halo 1 and 2 used. The only problem is that while playing through Halo 1, the 360 would sometimes not read the disk. This would ONLY happen during those big loading screens, and besides that the game always ran fine. I'm pretty pissed off because I just played through those Halo 1 + 2 copies a few weeks ago by myself and they worked fine.
So, the disk is probably just scratched since it's a used game, right? That's what I figured, even though I could not find any bad scratches on the disk.
So today, we decided that we'd skip right into Halo 3, and I briefed him on what happened so far in the story. We watch the intro cutscene...and the INSTANT the game starts it's big loading screen, my 360 says the disk is unreadable. What?! I haven't had this problem ONCE while playing Halo 3 before, and it's a brand-spankin new copy (well, about 5 months old). In disbelief I take out the disk and look at the bottom of it to see what the problem was. What do I find when I look at it?...
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.... It's perfectly fine, of course! After a few more tries of playing (and subsequent disk read errors during the loading screen) I'm now convinced that none of my games are scratched, and that it must be a problem with my 360. I looked online to see what it could be, and while I'm going to stay away from repairing my own console, one of the solutions looked easy enough: Unplug and then re-plug your HDD. Simple right? Going to make any ****ing difference though? How the hell could it? To me that sounds just as helpful as unplugging your keyboard on your computer to stop Firefox from crashing.
Well ever since I did that, I haven't gotten one disk read error yet (we've been playing for 2 hours since). Am I getting lucky, or is it really that stupid of a problem?
My 360 used to give me red lights when the AV cables and HDD weren't plugged in oh-so-perfectly, and it used to give me quite a few disk read errors on Gears 2 (I can't remember what I did to "fix" them, but I think it was this ridiculous HDD unplugging) and I seem to be having nothing but problems. Almost every damn time I turn my 360 on, shit hits the fan. The part that makes me the angriest is that NONE of my friends who have 360s have any of these problems.
It's like the gods are punishing me for turning on Nintendo and buying my first non-Nintendo console (PS2 was used so apparently they didn't count that). It's probably the work of Iwata.
Anyways, what do you guys think, am I safe now? Or is my 360 bound to get a drive failure and need to get sent in?
