same thing was happening to my housemate. try clearing the cache of the 360 (its in ur system settings but follow google if u want help)

kungfool69

Oh, bums. Thanks for the help, though.

I got an xbox360 for xmas, and a few games. I've been playing it quite a lot, so decided to install the games themselves to the harddrive, so as not to overheat it, but whenever I do, it normally gets to around 40% and then gives me an error message saying that the disc may be scratched or dirty, and that I should clean it.

The console itself is pre-owned, but is a re-conditioned one from GAME and so has been, in theory, fully tested and reconditioned. The games themselves (Skyrim, Fallout 3, and SW: Force Unleashed II) are all brand new, by which I mean new discs as opposed to new releases, and are accordingly immaculate. The harddisk is 60gb, with around 50gb free, so space shouldn't be an issue.

Has anybody experienced this before, or have any idea what the problem might be, and how I can go about fixing it?

Thanks very much, and I'm really sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place - bit of a forum "noob", as I believe you kids call them.

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A Duck Hunt/Mario double cartiridge. Very tricky to get the little blighter to work, though...

Darkman2007

I know this is a dumb reply to your not-so-dumb question, but how do I clean the cartridge (I mean, properly) and clean/replace the pins in the NES? I picked up the NES, 2 controllers and 4 games (including Mario 3 as well) for fifty pence (!!!) at a car boot sale a month or two back, but at the moment getting any of the games to work requires a lot of fannying around. You have to ease the game in slowly, so it just pops in, then pull back, an then it doesn't work, and then you repeat for a good 20 minutes or so...

A Duck Hunt/Mario double cartiridge. Very tricky to get the little blighter to work, though...

Woah that's vague, haha. Can you remember the system?