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"Xbox samsung Drive"

Hi guys, I'm a noob so be gentle ;P

I have an Xbox, out of warranty and the Drive is on it's way out (saying discs are dirty etc.)

I have tried the old lens cleaner approach, but to no avail.

A friend of mine has a chipped Xbox (which I'm amused to say has broken on him completely!)

Now, before sending my Xbox off for repair, or buying a new one, can you answer me this - If I was to take his Samsung drive (which I have heard are the best models) and replace my faulty one with his, will it work? There won't be any compatibility errors or anything will there? Just a straight swap I'm hoping for.

It's really just a last-ditch attempt at saving moolah.

Thanks for your help.

i put a lense cleaner in my xbox, that stopped it from reading every format of CD. the bloke said xbox people would fix it because not many people thought that would damage a console. good lad! :-)

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

I have a Thompson

*breaks down*

Open up the cup holder and you can tell by the shape of the hole in the middle. There's a topic on it, on another forum showing what the different drives look like, dunno where though, i think it might be www.xboxrules.com/co.uk (one of the two).

I've got a Thompson one and it's only crashed on me once, but then i should have expected it as i crammed as many cheats as i could into one game of vice city... That was fun.

How do you know if your XBox has a Samsung in it without opening the biatch up?

Samsungs are the best, last the longest and have the least errors. It should work, just a straight swap, as everything else about the Xbox is built to a standard pattern.

The only possible problem I could think of would be if there was some sort of EEPROM that had a product key sourced from serial numbers of all the other parts, but that would mean it would have to be reset in the case of any other hardware failing, which would make it overly complicated. So I doubt that. It's worth a shot at the very least if it is out of warranty.

I hope so too! I've seen it in action - and the amount of supported games completely dominate PS2's mundane selection!

One-player Rainbow Six and PGR2 is doing the trick for now anyway!

oh well, maybe sometime in the near future ....

If only I had Broadband! We're *just* out of coverage for it. How annoying.

yeah, the best thing for me about the xbox has to be Live though. fan-frikkin-tastic

I sold my PS2 to buy my Xbox. No regrets!