Account Ban with a corrupt filing system?????

If the system isn't working contact Microsoft directly through the chat system.

i have had my xbox360 120 gb for 7 yrs. with only 1 repair...i baby it as it is my only vice now that i am older within the last 4 to 5 wks. it has slowed way down. First i checked my internet. nope, 49 mps. The only other things i can think of is maybe
cpu damage somehow, or hd transfer rate is way down...takes 3 to 5 min to startup and 2 of those min to recognize the controller is there. even logining in takes 30 secs. it freezes at least 5 times a day and i just bought the diablo 3 and was able to play
to level 9 then it froze everytime b4 i got 2 kill the skeleton king. Crazy cuz on demo i killed him 5 times over, go figure. Now i cant play ANY game except the new WSOP Beta and it still takes way to long to load answer messages or go to the store and freezes
at all times of the day. Just wondering if it could be something i did...i am not new to gaming but mistakes can happen, or does anyone know anything i can try. no yellow circles, no error codes, all updates are needed are there, did all the normal stuff.
i.e. clear cache ect....please help if u can. i will just about try anything...thanks for reading. Gamertag-

But why would it be a drive issue if it is only one specific game that gave me the disc unreadable error? Plus those "Disc Drive Solutions" only state to clean the disc for a disc unreadable error. But 3 discs were not working straight out of the package...

I have researched this issue quite substantially and have found that there is a pretty large group of people experiencing this issue with Halo 4. Not to mention that this has also happened in the past with both Halo Reach and Halo 3 at the beginning of their
releases'. Even Xbox support themselves have stated that their have and is bad batches of Halo 3 and 4 discs.. I can provide sources to show what i mean.

Another disc I have borrowed from a friend worked. But that didn't help the System Corruption issue.

That is my main concern at this point. Isn't there a way I could just reset my console back to factory settings?

That always seems to be the answer "Send in for Repair"..

I could buy a brand new console with 250GB Hard Drive for only $30-$50 USD more than the repair costs unfortunately..

Tell ya what, this made me spend money on a PS3 instead of a repair or new console because it makes no sense.

A console shouldn't just stop working all of the sudden. My console has always been treated with the utmost respect, nurture, care, and cleanliness that there is no reason whatsoever this should just fail on me out of nowhere. Its a sad thing..

So that being said, can a lifelong Microsoft Customer on their own, restore a Microsoft Xbox 360 back to its original settings via any method at all?

Here is some more information I thought I should mention.

My Xbox 360 is the Slim Black version with the Internal Hard Drive.. (sorry I really need to learn this particular model)

It originally came with 4 Gigabytes of Internal Flash Memory.

I purchased an Official Microsoft 320 Gigabyte Internal Hard Drive for this system.

So the Hard Drive is aftermarket. I think this is also something that may be linked to the issue, as it would seem from some of my research.

Couldnt I just do a format of both the internal flash, and the internal hard drive, then is there another step to be able to reinstall / wipe / restore / or reset my Xbox 360 Console back to its original factory default settings.

All electronic devices have this option I dont understand why this is not an option in the settings..

Please some thoughts. I just hope that is not seriously the only option...

"343 Industries, commonly shortened to 343i, or just 343, is an American video game developer located in Kirkland, Washington. It was established in 2007 by Microsoft Game Studios to oversee development of the Halo science fiction media franchise"

But really, the issue I have with this and many other things is, there is really no technical support. Its like the customers arent really allowed to tinker with the products we have purchased. Everything seems to be against the TOSa.

im really sorry to hear this has happened to you, there is a more simple method of restarting your console to factory by going to settings, system, initial setup and that should reset to factory as well, I know not all official support agents are as helpful
as others and as a sometimes frustrated Microsoft customer I feel for you. but I would like to say that I think you are putting to much emphasis on this being microsofts problem. everything you have said points me into believing that who ever is in charge
of these halo series is having problems when it comes to creating the discs content. so really you should be "P"ed off at who ever is in charge over there in the halo department. sounds to me like they were rushing it out the door like most games and publishers
and like many others got the short end of the stick for their blunders.