Unreadable Disk... But no Disk?!

HumanPompano197 · Sep 2, 2017

The game starts up. But I can't get past the main menu without the console saying "Disk Unreadable"

But I downloaded the game from the Xbox Store. There is no disk to 'not read'

Help please.

:)

The platypus gi · Sep 2, 2017

Can't play

I downloaded gears of war off of the marketplace, but it says disk is unreadable. There is no disk. What do I do?

iGhp-52B65143-0EE1-41B0-AD67-08214644E986 · Sep 2, 2017

San Andreas marketplace download 'disc read error' message

Just downloaded GTA : SA Today Got halfway through intro "Disk Unreadable" Did everything "Disk Unreadable"

Obsessive Power · Jan 11, 2018

I take it you are having problems on the Xbox 360 version of Skyrim? Your Gamertag suggests so.

There is a disc to read, the hard disk where the game is installed. The Xbox 360 has a very limited OS, and there has never been a specific read error for hard drive read failures. This is why, even if the game you are having problems with is a download,
it will still give the same error as it does when it has issues reading a Xbox 360 game disc.

Either your game is corrupt or there is something physically wrong with the hard drive. A possible fix is to delete the game and download it again, but downloading something else first. Go to the store and download a demo - one at least 1GB. When this has
downloaded, download Skyrim again. This will move Skyrim to another part of the Xbox 360 hard drive. You can delete the demo game, but only after you have downloaded Skyrim again.

If you are still having problems after this, you'll need to replace the hard drive unit.

OKGo Joshie

i have battlefield 3 and when i put in the disk it would say unreadable disk and sometimes it would say play disk, and when i played the disk it would say "disk is unreadable" can somebody HELP

iGhp-52B65143-0EE1-4

Just downloaded GTA : SA Today Got halfway through intro "Disk Unreadable" Did everything "Disk Unreadable"

Toad 004

Wait, in your tags, it says "Unreadable disk". If the 360 gives an unreadable disk error, it means just that, it can't read the disk.

If you play an xbox game that is NOT backwards compatible, it will FLAT OUT SAY "THIS ORIGINAL XBOX GAME IS NOT COMPATIBLE". Not "this disk cannot be read".

Try cleaning the disk. Are there any scratches on it?

Obsessive Power

I take it you are having problems on the Xbox 360 version of Skyrim? Your Gamertag suggests so.

There is a disc to read, the hard disk where the game is installed. The Xbox 360 has a very limited OS, and there has never been a specific read error for hard drive read failures. This is why, even if the game you are having problems with is a download,
it will still give the same error as it does when it has issues reading a Xbox 360 game disc.

Either your game is corrupt or there is something physically wrong with the hard drive. A possible fix is to delete the game and download it again, but downloading something else first. Go to the store and download a demo - one at least 1GB. When this has
downloaded, download Skyrim again. This will move Skyrim to another part of the Xbox 360 hard drive. You can delete the demo game, but only after you have downloaded Skyrim again.

If you are still having problems after this, you'll need to replace the hard drive unit.

ChainSmokingBob

Disk Unreadable is not necessarily a console issue.... try letting the disk spin until it stops while still staying at the menu. Also, check whether it's just the one disk.

Unreadable Disk... But no Disk?!