Can't open my xbox 360 dvd drive

ConsiceMan6500 · Feb 10, 2022

I try pressing the eject button and tried a paperclip even banging it didn't work

(Xbox 360 fat)

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Jesse E'

Hello, My name is Jesse. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

If the paperclip method isn't working then you'll need to take the console to a qualified technician so they can investigate and fix the issue for you. Any hardware repair store or departmental store will do just fine.

Hope this helps

Obsessive Power

A dying or dead DVD optical drive on that old 360 would be the issue here, not the disc.

The original Xbox 360 spec had a maximum DVD size for 360 titles at 6.8GB. Later in the Xbox 360 lifestyle a drive firmware update allowed all 360 consoles to read discs of 7.8GB in size. There was an isolated issue with some 360 consoles not being able
to read later titles because of hardware faults with some earlier 360 consoles with different DVD drives.

Regardless, if your Xbox One can read the game but the old 360 can't, the fault is with your old 360, not the game disc.

voteDC

[quote user="Auswolf7"]If you were to take the DVD drive out of the Xbox 360 and tried to use it online it would not work. If the Main board can't detect a dvd drive it would be still non functional and would present an error code.[/quote]No it wouldn't.
A friend of mine is running his console without a DVD drive in it and it works just fine.

Player900528796

I have had a 360 from day one bought a few games at first but now only use it to play HD DVDs. I have about 100 which if I had to up date to the Blue Ray version would cost quite a bit. I was looking at the Xbox One to use mainly as a media center but
if I can't use my HD DVD drive with it then I will probably stick with my 360 and either get another one as a backup or plug the HD DVD drive into my computer and rip them to the hard drive.

Obsessive Power

Hi,

I'm sorry you're having issues with your console recognising Xbox 360 games. The end your post says your console can't read DVD discs either, is that correct?

If your console can't read Movie DVD's either then I'm afraid that means your Xbox One has a hardware issue with the Blu-ray drive. The Xbox One Blu-ray drive has a laser that can read both types of disc, however, it sounds to me like the part of the drive
that reads DVD discs is faulty (Xbox 360 games are on DVD disc format).

To get this corrected you'll have to send your console to Microsoft for a repair.

Can't open my xbox 360 dvd drive