xbox fell down, CD scratched.

[spitfreak01]

Okay, Microsoft is making a toejam-move right here. Whenever the system is running with the CD in and your xbox falls down, it will make a perfect circle... I mean WHAT THE HECK? I've picked up Black Ops 2, managed to play it for 12 hours, and that's what happened:

Good job Microsoft! Well done!

Now if there's any way of fixing this, please tell me how. Don't want to spend €20 on repairing it at the store...

[spitfreak01]

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[Spikes]

Don't let your Xbox fall.

[LCADolby]

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[The Fugitive]

Why would your xbox fall? Remember, with the player spinning at thousands of revolutions a minute to access data quickly, one bounce is enough to scratch the disk in a nice neat circle like that when the reader head bounces off the disk.

Setup your xbox so it can't fall, buy yourself a new disk, and learn from your mistake.

[DREDIOCK]

Don't let your Xbox fall.

This.

I'm sure the Xbox wasnt designed to be dropped. Even by accident. In fact its a pretty safe bet to osay that most electronic things in your house arent designed to be dropped.
But feel free to try it with your PC or TV in an effort to prove me wrong

[gpwurzel]

Toothpaste - odd as it sounds, it can help with scratches on cd's - I make no guarantee however, that scratch is pretty big.

Do a google search for details.

Wurz

[Tracerfi]

My original Xbox (Not Xbox 360) Lasted till about 2010 it fell about 200 times and never broke so it depends how they design it

I agree with the other chaps set it up so it does not fall Hope you don't make that mistake again

[BaldEagl]

Have you ever heard the story about Humpty Dumpty?

He also had a great fall with tragic results.

[Bizman]

Toothpaste - odd as it sounds, it can help with scratches on cd's - I make no guarantee however, that scratch is pretty big.

For that kind of a dent I'd take fine wet sanding paper, grit 1000 or so and polish the circle until it's nice matte. Maybe finishing with even finer paper. The last touch is done with fine polishing paste sold in automotive shops for polishing paint.

There's also quite inexpensive little machines for repairing scratched optical disks. Might save some elbow grease...

A WikiHow article on the subject...

Oh, and after getting the disk to work make a copy of it.

[guncrasher]

 use a banana, i have used it on my cd's and it works very well.  look up on youtube there's many ways to clean the scrateches off a cd.


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[RedBull1]

Have you ever heard the story about Humpty Dumpty?

He also had a great fall with tragic results.

Oh god Bald, I think I just spewed RedBull all over my monitor and keyboard 

   thanks for that....You're paying if my keyboard doesn't work after thi-

[ebfd11]

I use headlight lens restorer to fix my daged cd's, you gotta figure they are made of basically the same materials. Just use it less than you would on a headlight.

LawnDart

[Tank-Ace]

OK, so two things:

1) Place it sideways to start with; if you can somehow make it "fall" from that position, you don't deserve nice things.

2) An X-box doesn't just spontaneously fall any more than I spontaneously combust. There was a reason for it tipping.

It might be an unstable platform being bumped by the family pet, or it might be you shotgun kicking it down the stairs; I don't know, I'm not an expert. But I can tell you what didn't make it fall: Microsoft.





EDIT: Somebody damn well better get the reference I'm making there.

Also, if it costs you 20 pounds to get it refurbished at the store, you're being ripped off. It only cost me like $4 to get mine refurbished.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

There are cd restorer devices for sale. It's a plastic housing that spins the cd/dvd with a pad and liquid solution. Few spins in that and your dvds will look like new again. They cost typically 10-20 bucks.