Replacing Xbox 360 disk drive

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Kookoo

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#304625 21-May-2023 21:23

My Xbox 360 disk drive has finally decided to give up the ghost. It's the usual story - the laser is playing up and failing to read the disks. Turns out the kids still love playing the kinect games, and getting a second hand unit isn't a solution because I won't be able to move the content across - been there, tried that.

EB Games used to have a repair service for XB360 but looks like they now only repair XBox One and above.

So, the question is - does anyone out there still offer XB360 repair service?

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#3078428 21-May-2023 22:54

Microsoft is the only one that can replace the disk drive, the next best option is to find a matching disk drive and swap the mainboards across from the failed drive to the new drive (assuming the board is fine). The only way to replace the disc drive otherwise is to mod the system, either backing the firmware up from your failed drive and flashing a custom firmware onto a new drive, or a full RGH/JTAG mod on the system.

Why can't you transfer the content to a new system? A system transfer should carry across all your content. You could also pick up an Xbox One with Kinect support, or a Kinect adapter and use that. I have an old Xbox One Kinect in my closet somewhere, I'm sure.

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#3078435 22-May-2023 00:34

toejam316:
Microsoft is the only one that can replace the disk drive, the next best option is to find a matching disk drive and swap the mainboards across from the failed drive to the new drive (assuming the board is fine). The only way to replace the disc drive otherwise is to mod the system, either backing the firmware up from your failed drive and flashing a custom firmware onto a new drive, or a full RGH/JTAG mod on the system.

Why can't you transfer the content to a new system? A system transfer should carry across all your content. You could also pick up an Xbox One with Kinect support, or a Kinect adapter and use that. I have an old Xbox One Kinect in my closet somewhere, I'm sure.

System transfer - tried that before, on my first 360, with no luck. Ended up reinstalling everything from scratch. The problem with this is that the dlc catalogue is pretty much gone by now, so if system transfer fails - I have nowhere to reinstall from. Then there's the Xbox Live issue where it is becoming increasingly inconsistent with XB360. So again, if system transfer doesn't work - you may end up unable to re-add profiles.

Regarding disk-drives - you're right, either that, or - replace the laser. I've seen tutorials for both, and the reality is - I don't have the skillset or the time to acquire the skillset, to do it myself. Hence the question if there's anyone out there still doing that. I noticed there were a couple of replacement lasers on Trademe, so I'm assuming there's still demand for them.

XBone - the challenge is that afaik backwards compatibility with xb360 has been discontinued. It wasn't great to start with, and the chances to get old xb360 kinect games working on xbone are pretty slim.

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#3078437 22-May-2023 00:37

They're not adding new titles but what's there is pretty comprehensive.
The easiest option is just get a modded system that runs the titles without concern for licenses

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