So here is an odd question?

Ok at one point my girlfriend owned the game of the year edition of oblivion. She was playing when her brother moved the xbox and messed up the disc, big circular scratch somewhere around the center of the readable area, this was about a year ago. It messed it up enough that it didnt work. So a few months later her family bought just the regular oblivion dics used for the family, well because alls you need for the expansion is that second disc.

So recently I borrowed just the regular edition of oblivion from them and began playing it. I put the game onto my harddrive. Last night I borrowed the game of the year edition so I could put the 2 expansions on. They still had the scratched dics that didnt work in the case also.

So I got thinking, that first disc is pretty much useless...except the fact that the game is already on my hard drive from the other oblivion disc. I stick the scratched, unusable disc into my xbox... it works. So if her parents dont mind I will keep the scratched disc becasue they dont have the new NXE and its no use to them.

What I mainly want to know then is even though the game is playing off the Harddrive, will a game disc that is so scratched that it wont play from the dics, hurt my xbox? I cant imagine it would, I just want to be safe.

that is a very odd question indeed

seriously tho i dont think itll do anything

Of course it won't hurt it. Just think about it, all the drive does is read the information stored on the disc with a laser. How could a scratched disc possibly hurt a laser?

guthwulf_de

I was thinking the same thing.

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Of course it won't hurt it. Just think about it, all the drive does is read the information stored on the disc with a laser. How could a scratched disc possibly hurt a laser?

Palantas

I was thinking the same thing.

true true, i guess I just assumed that a scratched dics puts strain on the laser because it tries hard to read it or something.

no.. it can't HURT anything, I mean even putting the disc in with the label faced down, can't hurt anything, it will either play or not, or just tell you an error. the first day I got a used version of Fable 2 it froze, so I put it on my hard drive, and then ever since then, it has not froze, but I think you need to have the disc to play the game, but it will just read the data from the hard drive.. I mean I have not had ANY issues with fable since