I'm having a problem with my 360 that I've never heard of before.

When I play games on my 360, I can occasionally hear a high pitched noise coming from the box as if the disc is lightly touching the laser-reader or so for a brief moment. After a while my games begin to start suffering from disc-read errors and slowdowns. When I take the disc out there are no noticeable scratches until I put it under very direct artificial light, usually at an angle. When I do this I can see a ton of tiny tiny little radial scratches all over the disc, represented in this picture as the red lines. However, unlike in this picture literally every inch of the disc is covered in these tiny scratches.

I've tried calling microsoft about it but they said they can't do anything to help me.

Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this and how I could fix it?

Thanks in advance

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

What do you expect? It's an Xbox. Looks like your Xbox is taking its first leap into the bin. Just get a new one or w.e.

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

M4Ntan

Lol, you thought those Red-Lines were the actual scratches xD

If microsoft doesn't know about the problem, then it doesn't exist. They say that microsoft can't help them.

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

M4Ntan

*facepalm*

The red lines are just a representation of what the scratches actually look like, because they're so minute they wouldn't be picked up by my camera. ;)

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

M4Ntan

lawl.

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

It does sound like the last legs of your xbox to be honest bud. If you want to repair it you could tryto replace the disc driveby buying another one off ebay or something, but if I was you I would just cash out on a new 360. Maybe MW2 Bundlexbox;)

does it do that to all of your game's cds?

When you have to start replacing major components, you are just better off replacing the whole unit. Believe me, the hassle is not worth the marginal savings you will incur shopping for parts and not to mention the time wasted in this endevour. Get yourself a new unit and enjoy it...Maybe go for an upgrade?

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

M4Ntan

Lmao *facepalm*

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

Lmao *facepalm*

If you have the 360 setting vertically you may want to place it horizontally and see if that stops the issue.

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

M4Ntan

Is this a joke? that picture looks like a bad photoshoped picture, the scratches are off the disk, and its not even a xbox 360 disc. Don't be mad if this is real but seriously, PS3 fanboys can't trick me as easily.

Edit. I dont know if your a ps3 fanboy, but I looked at that picture, those red lines are so fake, and also, there wouldn't be any red lines. Your xbox is the devils or something.

M4Ntan

LOL.