Xbox disc dive spins then stops

The discs need to be in the console when you wish to play them. The discs will spin up as the xbox verifies them and will stop spinning after a few minutes.

I know that the disc spins to verify that you actually own a physical copy of the game, but after that it would stop spinning the disc completely and only play the game from memory. With this new console update, the disc continues to spin for about 2 minutes
into a game while it's still playing the game from memory, 2 minutes into the game the disc stops spinning, before the update it would spin for maybe 3 seconds then stop.

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It's not a big deal, I initially thought that it would never stop spinning because of this new update. Thanks for your answers guys, the question is answered but I'd still like Microsoft to change the disc spinning back to the way it was so it only spins
to do the initial disc check.

Disc spinning non stop on xbox 360, help.

The new copy protection scheme does not perform a simple disc check. Gears of War 3 did the same thing - the disc spins for 3-5 minutes before finally spinning down.



Try playing for a while, then pause and see if the disc has stopped spinning.

when installed the disc will spin for no more than a few minutes at start up of the game but then stop and not spin.

if it does keep spinning then the issue could be that the game was installed on that hard drive but on another xbox, all you have to do is use the licence transfer feature to the xbox you are permanently playing the game on, and you also might have to install
the game again. This happened to me with BC2, i moved my hard drive that had BC2 installed on it to another Xbox, the disc kept spinning but once i transferred my licence over and installed the game disc again, it would only spin at the loading start of the
game and then stop after a very few minutes.