Halo 3 Disc Unreadable!

[fdurso224]

Hi Guys:

 

I'm having problems with my Halo 3 Game Disc for my XBOX 360. Maybe you guys can help me before I call Microsoft for this matter.

 

My Xbox 360 keeps telling me that my Halo 3 game is "Unreadable", it only happens on "Campain, and on certain Maps on the Multiplayer Xbox Live feature (Such as The Pitt, etc). I tried it with my previous 360 Console (#2) with had to be shipped back for other reasons as well (3 Red Lights and Scratching Disc) and did this problem too. Now, my 360 console (#3) that was mailed to me today is doing the same action of "This Disc Is Unreadable" What is going on.

 

I tried my brothers/friends other Halo 3 Discs and DITTO, 2 Xbox 360 from Microsoft and still the same issue. What do you fellas make of this horrific experience?

 

Anthony....

[moycon]

I was going to say the disk might be scratched, but if you tried 3 different disks, then that is a mystery.

[Lastblade]

Your DVD drive could be dying. My Elite had the same problem with the DVD drive not being able to read certain games, etc. Then it starts to make this horrible whining noise and then died altogether.

[fdurso224]

Your DVD drive could be dying. My Elite had the same problem with the DVD drive not being able to read certain games, etc. Then it starts to make this horrible whining noise and then died altogether.

 

 

Hmmmmm.....Maybe, but I notice, that I play my other 360 games, (Such as Dirt, Tetris Evolution, Gears of War) its working A-Okay. Its only happening to Halo 3! I would also like to add, it also happen to 2 Xbox 360 consoles as well (this one now, and the previous one that was sent back). Could it be the hard drive?

 

Anthony....

[Atari5200]

this happened to me with my Oblivion disc, apparently it had a hairline crack in the disc, it worked fine but after hours of use the crack got larger until now it won't even recognize the disc at all, at least i got 30 some hours in and beat the main quest.

[moycon]

The reason I was going to suggest the disk was scratch was because i had ordered the Collectors Edition of Halo 3 and got one that had small light scratches on it. I played in in my old premium 360 I bought in March 2006 and it seemed to play fine. I played co-op a little and one stage in single player. Good deal.

 

Then later I took it down stairs and put in in my Elite. It rarely read the disk. Usually it would come up with some message about a DVD or something, like it was reading the disk as a DVD. I'd take the disk out, clean it really good, stick it back in and after 1 to 3 times of doing that it would load up and I could play. I eventually sent it back for a replacement. To be honest I havent really messed with Halo 3 since. After I saw this post I tried it out a couple times in the Elite and it booted right up.

 

Just odd I guess since it seemed to play fine in the older model but the Elite wouldn't load it and then I saw this thread where someone has similar problems. I'd have to play mine a bit more I guess to see if it's still an issue playing the new disk in the Elite but I think the replacement fixed my issue.

[fdurso224]

The reason I was going to suggest the disk was scratch was because i had ordered the Collectors Edition of Halo 3 and got one that had small light scratches on it. I played in in my old premium 360 I bought in March 2006 and it seemed to play fine. I played co-op a little and one stage in single player. Good deal.

 

Then later I took it down stairs and put in in my Elite. It rarely read the disk. Usually it would come up with some message about a DVD or something, like it was reading the disk as a DVD. I'd take the disk out, clean it really good, stick it back in and after 1 to 3 times of doing that it would load up and I could play. I eventually sent it back for a replacement. To be honest I havent really messed with Halo 3 since. After I saw this post I tried it out a couple times in the Elite and it booted right up.

 

Just odd I guess since it seemed to play fine in the older model but the Elite wouldn't load it and then I saw this thread where someone has similar problems. I'd have to play mine a bit more I guess to see if it's still an issue playing the new disk in the Elite but I think the replacement fixed my issue.

 

 

Hmmm... I tried to my brothers Xbox 360 and it works fine. The disc is clean and works properly. My Xbox reads the game, except the Campaign, and for certain maps. My Previous Xbox 360 did this as well (#2) and now this one. Could it be the hard drive? or corrupt memory?

 

Anthony....

[moycon]

The reason I was going to suggest the disk was scratch was because i had ordered the Collectors Edition of Halo 3 and got one that had small light scratches on it. I played in in my old premium 360 I bought in March 2006 and it seemed to play fine. I played co-op a little and one stage in single player. Good deal.

 

Then later I took it down stairs and put in in my Elite. It rarely read the disk. Usually it would come up with some message about a DVD or something, like it was reading the disk as a DVD. I'd take the disk out, clean it really good, stick it back in and after 1 to 3 times of doing that it would load up and I could play. I eventually sent it back for a replacement. To be honest I havent really messed with Halo 3 since. After I saw this post I tried it out a couple times in the Elite and it booted right up.

 

Just odd I guess since it seemed to play fine in the older model but the Elite wouldn't load it and then I saw this thread where someone has similar problems. I'd have to play mine a bit more I guess to see if it's still an issue playing the new disk in the Elite but I think the replacement fixed my issue.

 

 

Hmmm... I tried to my brothers Xbox 360 and it works fine. The disc is clean and works properly. My Xbox reads the game, except the Campaign, and for certain maps. My Previous Xbox 360 did this as well (#2) and now this one. Could it be the hard drive? or corrupt memory?

 

Anthony....

 

Oh yes I agree, you issue is different than mine. My disk was clearly scratched from the case.

It's almost gotta be something associated with the HD if it's doing the exact same thing. I would go to your system blade go into memory and delete all the files associated with Halo 3. You'll lose your progress but hopefully you aren't to far into the game.

 

Also you can erase your game updates and see if that helps.

 

Go to the SYSTEM Blade.

Go to Memory.

Go to HDD.

Hit 'Y' for Device Options.

Press 'X', 'X', 'LB', 'RB', 'X', 'X'.

This will cause the Maintenance Blade to pop out from the right.

It will ask if you want to clear the cache.

 

This will erase all your game updates tho. That pretty much means going forward, every game you put in will probably prompt you to update again. (No biggie really)

 

After you do this, you should have deleted all the files associated with Halo 3 I would think and can try to start over from scratch.

[FastRobPlus]

Alternately, take the HDD off alltogether to see if a cached file on the HD is causing your issue.

[fdurso224]

Alternately, take the HDD off alltogether to see if a cached file on the HD is causing your issue.

 

Hi Guys:

 

Yes, it was the Removable Hard Drive on my XBOX 36O that was causing the concern. However, I have a worry on deleting this Cache.

 

I'm trying to delete the Cache that is causing the issue. However, which one could it be? Even before, I was looking at my save games on the Hard Drive, there seems to be nothing with Halo 3! I see Halo 2 and my other collection, but no Halo 3 on file!

 

I did followed "Moycons" advice about doing the Maintenance, but once its done, it leaves me back to the XBOX 360 Dashboard! Is that what's suppose to do? It doesn't even say that the maintenance is complete or saying the caches been successfully deleted!

 

What now?

 

Anthony....

[moycon]

I did followed "Moycons" advice about doing the Maintenance, but once its done, it leaves me back to the XBOX 360 Dashboard! Is that what's suppose to do? It doesn't even say that the maintenance is complete or saying the caches been successfully deleted!

 

What now?

 

Anthony....

 

Yes I don't believe it says anything in particular. You'll know because now when you put disks in you'll probably have to update again even though you already did not too long ago.

[fdurso224]

I did followed "Moycons" advice about doing the Maintenance, but once its done, it leaves me back to the XBOX 360 Dashboard! Is that what's suppose to do? It doesn't even say that the maintenance is complete or saying the caches been successfully deleted!

 

What now?

 

Anthony....

 

Yes I don't believe it says anything in particular. You'll know because now when you put disks in you'll probably have to update again even though you already did not too long ago.

 

Hi:

 

Okay... So now that it brings me back to the dashboard, that Cache is deleted? Heres the thing, I played Halo 3 for a few weeks. I really didn't start the campaign because of my problem. But, I did the multiplayer on XBOX Live and I should have some data. It never showed in the first place! The bad Cache is in one of the game saved files in the HD? Sorry, to ask these questions, unfortunately, I'm XBOX 360 Illiterate when it comes to its maintenance.

 

Anthony....

Edited November 12, 2007 by fdurso224

[ninjarabbit]

Interesting

 

Game Informer was complaining about how their copies of Halo 3 all came in scratched

[moycon]

Hi:

 

Okay... So now that it brings me back to the dashboard, that Cache is deleted? Heres the thing, I played Halo 3 for a few weeks. I really didn't start the campaign because of my problem. But, I did the multiplayer on XBOX Live and I should have some data. It never showed in the first place! The bad Cache is in one of the game saved files in the HD? Sorry, to ask these questions, unfortunately, I'm XBOX 360 Illiterate when it comes to its maintenance.

 

Anthony....

 

That cache you deleted won't contain any gamesave data (Or at least I don't think it does). That was just the information obtained when you put a disk in and it says " This game has an update, would you like to update now" (or whatever) It was on your HD but you wouldn't have seen it in a file or anything. There might not have been any data there for Halo 3, but it didn't hurt to delete it and start over from scratch in the cache.

 

As far as starting a multiplay you definately would think that data would be kept somewhere. Especially since there are online achievements, unfortunately if they aren't just under memory/game/halo 3 in the system blade, I dunno where the files are kept.

 

Here's an interesting thread on the xbox forums. I didnt read through it all (Its 147 pages!!!) But it sounds like maybe a bunch of people have this issue?

 

http://forums.xbox.com/15759968/ShowPost.aspx

 

This makes me wonder if the issue I was having on my Elite isn't going to return even though I have a new disk. I guess time will tell, To be honest I haven't really messed with Halo 3 much since I got it. I ,might have to boot it up a few time this week.

[moycon]

Interesting

 

Game Informer was complaining about how their copies of Halo 3 all came in scratched

 

Yeah there was a design flaw in the Collectors edition case, almost all copies were scratched in transit.