What's happening to my discs?!

[ghosstt]

Well, I recently bought dead rising for 360. (And am loving it) I was going into the grocery store on north end, and I got a disc read error, so I took the game out, and look at it, and saw this:





Any Idea what it is? Is my 360 running hot and melting the games or something? I cleaned the lens with rubbing alcohol a while ago, but I don't think it would be that. Would it?

[chainfire95]

looks like a manufacturing defect to me.

[tom61]

The lens never touches the disc, unless the disc is very badly warped, so definitely not that.

It looks to me to be the layers of the disc are separating, but hard to tell from the pictures. This shouldn't happen nowadays, the glue that holds the layers together should be able to stand up to nearly everything, including Xbox 360's heat. I'd see if there was a defective batch of discs for that game, and if any sort of exchange program is in place.

[Zero_D]

If you search on google, it looks like a lot of people have disc read errors with this game. You could try copying it to the HDD and playing it from there (then it will only need the disc for verification), but if the disc is already messed up you might not even be able to copy it to the HDD, and in that case you'll need to borrow a friend's disc or something to copy it, then just use your disc for verification when you play it.

[ghosstt]

I havn't actually tried playing it since the error, but I'll install it anyway to speed up those loading times.

[Zeturi]

I vaguely remember that some of the older 360's had bad drives, I think they were samsung...?

They would scratch up your discs over time. Check your other games to make sure that they aren't damaged. If they aren't, then maybe your console got moved while the game was playing.

[Michaelthurston]

Hmmm, It may not be Just 360's

I have the same thing on my copy of Spore, for PC.
I wont bother taking a picture, because you can't see it very well, for me it doesn't make the disc un-readable but it makes the Install/repair time take Hours! Ugh.

I wonder what could be causing this...

[Metallica Man X]

Perhaps it's a modern variation of disk-rot?

[Oniak]

I think a bunch of my discs look like that and are still perfectly fine, let me check. Nope I sold the ones that looked like that, but they did play fine.

[64M320N3]

I don't think it is from the heat, it is most likely due to cheap or poor manufacturing.
Try to return it, as it looks like from the condition it is in you will not be able to fix it, or back it up on your drive.

[bicostp]

We have a couple DVDs that look like that, and they work fine.

[Kurt_]

Some discs are now made with a "self-destruct" mechanism. What type of drive do you have? Some burner drives trigger newer cd/dvds manufactured by Samsung to fail. It's an evil scheme in the fight against piracy.

[bicostp]

That doesn't make any sense. When it's reading a DVD, a burner doesn't run the laser at the higher burn temperature...

The only information I could dig up about self-destructing DVDs are those "no return rentals" which degrade through oxidation. I think your tinfoil hat's on a little too tight.

[Kurt_]

Naw I just made that up for kicks.

[chainfire95]

nice, lol