disk broke, sad face

Guffy

So my disk broke. Looks like laser burn :-( if I come across a cheap second hand one tomorrow. Will I need a new ea code or is that saved to your xbl account?

Pudsy33

Saves to the account

etloveslsd

gufc21 wrote: »

So my disk broke. Looks like laser burn :-( if I come across a cheap second hand one tomorrow. Will I need a new ea code or is that saved to your xbl account?

If you have hard drive space, you should install the game, the disc stops running after the game is loaded, also reduces the heat of the Xbox and lessens the chance of the red ring of death.

Guffy

guessing I cant do this after the break

etloveslsd

gufc21 wrote: »

guessing I cant do this after the break

You could try, but doubtful. I do it with all game I'm playing. They take up 6-8 gigs of space, when you finish it, delete it and make more room. You still need the disc to play though.

Guffy

etloveslsd wrote: »

You could try, but doubtful. I do it with all game I'm playing. They take up 6-8 gigs of space, when you finish it, delete it and make more room. You still need the disc to play though.

Cool did a quick read up on it. Think I might just rent it, save it and return it. From wat I'm reading I should be able to use the old disk to boot it.

etloveslsd

gufc21 wrote: »

Cool did a quick read up on it. Think I might just rent it, save it and return it. From wat I'm reading I should be able to use the old disk to boot it.

Worth a shot, with the season over you should be able to pick up a cheap copy somewhere, if I see one il let you know.

Guffy

etloveslsd wrote: »

Worth a shot, with the season over you should be able to pick up a cheap copy somewhere, if I see one il let you know.

Cheers man

Raoul

gufc21 wrote: »

Cheers man

Worth a try but what exactly do you mean broken disc? Just scraped?

Guffy

Raoul wrote: »

Worth a try but what exactly do you mean broken disc? Just scraped?

ya its like i ring on the disk. thought i was sound when installing it but stopped at 20%

Raoul

Did you try the toothpaste trick?

Mikeyt086

gufc I knocked over my mates Xbox as his house once while FIFA 11 was running inside it, and it laser burned a ring on the disc and it wouldn't play, I gave him my copy, and I took the scratched disc to see if it would play on my console which had FIFA 11 saved to the hard drive, and it did!

So the renting thing should work for you.

Raoul

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

gufc I knocked over my mates Xbox as his house once while FIFA 11 was running inside it, and it laser burned a ring on the disc and it wouldn't play, I gave him my copy, and I took the scratched disc to see if it would play on my console which had FIFA 11 saved to the hard drive, and it did!

So the renting thing should work for you.

Exact same thing happened to me when my last xbox broke with the madden CD in it and the CD wouldn't work in the new xbox. But its def worth trying.

Guffy

no Raoul didn't try the toothpaste one, tried the fairy one but no joy.

Was just laser burn. rented and saved a disk from xtra vision old disk works to start it so happy out

definitely going to do this with all the main games i play from now on. especially considering I have so much space.

Mikeyt086

I've been saving games to the HDD since it's been possible. Mainly because my Xbox sounds like it's about to take flight if I don't!