my 360 is acting a bit wierd from last nite as it is scratching my game discs and other discs too :cry:, right now my 360 is kept horizontal and i have never even moved my 360 while its on , so what could be the problem , right now none of my game discs have been scratched but my matrix revolutions dvd is done , and whenever i put my tomb raider legends disc into my 360, it gives an errror saying the disc is dirty and i cant play the game, well my legends disc doesnt have any scratches then why is it saying that :( . i am able to play my 360 without any problems , everything is fine except this disc scarthing , now i cant play any games on my 360 untill it gets fixed, i have read forums on the net regarding this problem and it says that my dvd drive needs more pading on it ,which will prevent the disc from being scratched. here is a pic of my matrix dvd that got scratched last night :(

I tried my 360 on vertical too ,but the problem is still there and i even contacted my local game dealer here for this problem and he said that this is a very common problem and repairing it is very minimal, like 10 $. but thing is that it will take around 4 to 5 weeks to send and get it back .coz my game dealer is around 1100 kms away from my town and sending it there is also a big risk via courier ,so i have to go there by myself :( coz i cant risk my 360.which means i cannot play my 360 till next month or till april , coz i have got too much work in my office.

The problem with my 360 is that first any game or disc that i insert in plays well for around 10,15 mins and after sometime i hear sounds like its scrathing my disc slowly and after sometime like an hour or two ,its even louder and then i have no option but to take off my disc before it gets scratched. it ll be best that i first get my 360 repaired then only i should play on it :(. and now all i can do on my 360 is just play some arcade games and demos from my 360hdd. its happened with a lot of people and all i have to do is be patient . so i am just fine with that :D, and i guess now is the right time for me to play some games on my xbox ,ps2 and pc that i ve been waiting from a long time to play like Metal Gear 2 , 3 , jak2,jak3 , Riddick, Doom3 ,cod2 and others .

and here is a link to more details on x360 disc scratching problems

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/news/Xbox-360-Game-Disc-Scratched.htm