So last weekend I was playing GTA 4. I had been playing for about four hours, and felt like stopping, so I saved the game, then turned it off. I was horrified upon hearing this terrible whirring sound from my Xbox as it turned off. About ten minutes later I felt like playing again, so I turned my Xbox on again and now the game disc won't load past the screen at the beginning with all the copyright stuff.

Naturally I took the game out and looked at the disc, and there was a big scratch in the shape of a perfect circle going around the middle of the disc.

So my questions are:

1. WTF happened?

2. Is there any way to fix the disc?

Some of my friends suggested putting toothpaste on it and rubbing it off with a tissue, but I'm REALLY afraid to get toothpaste smears all over the disc.

Lottel wrote:

Have you put any other discs in there? If not, put a blank CD in.

I tested it and Orange Box, Dead Rising, and Oblivion all work fine in it without being destroyed.

Ba‘al wrote:

how old is your 360?

I got it last christmas (it's a 20 GB model). Luckily enough, I've never had the RRoD.

Avian wrote:

I would get one of those CD-Repair things. They cost like $25, but they work. Well worth it to salvage damaged games, DVD's and CD's.

That sounds exactly like something I'd wanna do. Any idea where you'd get something like that? If I can't find it I'll try the toothpaste method.

Char Aznable wrote:

but unless Rockstar will replace it for you or it's under warranty somehow, I think you're shit out of luck.

Yeah, I got it at a Slackers, used, bought with store credit, three weeks ago, so It'd be a miracle if Rockstar found it within the kindness in their heart to refund it. I just hope I can get it fixed soon because I really don't want to spend 60 bucks on an new one.