Hardware

Play a XBOX 360 game with broken disc

Posted in Hardware, How To, Tips, Xbox 360 on December 1st, 2009 by admin – 3 Comments

My 360 fell off my dresser last night, went vertical, and then to the floor. Luckily the Xbox is fine, but as most people know by now, if you move your Xbox 360 while a disc is spinning in the tray, it leaves a nice round scratch around the disc, leaving it unreadable.

However! You may get lucky! In my case I was only left with a partial, shallow scratch. My game will load, but I can not read from the disc to say, load a multiplayer map.

I solved this by borrowing my friends game, and installing it to the hard drive. I then gave my friend back his game, popped my scratched cd in the tray, and fired up multiplayer. Everything has been working fine so far. Below is a more detailed guide on solving the problem.

  1. Get another copy of the broken disc
  2. Pop the good copy into your xbox hard drive
  3. On the Xbox dashboard (where you would normally launch the game), Press Y
  4. Select “Install To Hard Drive”
  5. Wait for Xbox to finish copying the disc to the hard drive
  6. Pop out the good disc
  7. Put your scratched disc back in
  8. Try and launch game
  9. Celebrate
  10. Give old disc back

Quick tip when transporting your printer

Posted in Hardware, Tips on November 30th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

I have been wondering why none of my printers work after the haul from school to home. I borked my second printer last week during the move back home for Thanksgiving.

After some research, it turns out that if you keep the ink cartridges inside the printer during transport, the cartridge contacts will rub from the car vibrations, and permanently damage the ink cartridges or pinter itself.

Easy solution: take those babies out before you bring your printer in the car.