I am having a similar problem. Maybe somebody could think of something I could do to fix it as well?
Here are all the details I can think of:
-My xbox 360 is modded with 1.3 iXtreme firmware that I got around the summer of 2007.
- I have recently bought a "LiteOn" DVD burner, and I have successfully burned various games already.
- I only use Verbatim DVD+R DL disks
- I have recently switched over to DVD Decrypter, which, also has worked successfully the past few times.
- The layer break was manually configured to "1913760"
I tried to burn GOW II and when I inserted it into the xbox it wouldn't read the disk.
There are three things that I could think of that could be the problem.
1. I am not using the .dvd file that was included with the download. ---> If it is this, then I don't understand why previous games have worked without it. Also, if this is the problem I have no clue what the proper procedure is; I will need some guidance.
2. I really hope it's not the laser in the xbox dying, but I have heard of this tendency. --> I am inclined not to believe that it is this because it still reads all the games I have burned before.
3. I would like to know what the best software is to use, and then, if possible, a guide on how to do it. I have heard the DVD Decrypter or Imgburn is good, but I have also heard about Xbox Backup Creator being good as well.
Well if I was you, I would first try to use IMGBURN and if that doesn't work the next thing I would say is upgrade firmware to 1.4. I have 1.4 and it works great once I got the right media. Hope it helps.
im still getting nowhere! im using imgburn, verbatim disks and employing the advice given here. i thought that it might have been my dvd burner on my laptop so i went out and bought an external dvd burner and still no joy. As i have said before my 360 can play back-up games but when i try to burn my own i just end up with coasters! any help would be well recieved.
Ok, so I have an Hitachi 49, and I have been fighting with the damn thing reading my backups since I flashed it. It would read them sometimes and other times I would recieve the grand message "uplayable disc"
So I started with Memorex DVD's and it would read sometimes and not others so I posted to the forums and most everyone replied with "USE VERBATIMS." So at the time I didn't have any money to buy more DVD's at the time so I was hoping to find another fix by searching and reading through the forums. So I got some money and bought some Sony DVD's which had decent reviews and well my drive wouldn't even read them at all. So I then returned them to Best Buy and exchanged them for Verbatims. Well I went home burnt it and put in and it worked so I thought well my problem is solved played some Madden games on Live! and put in Dead Space, didn't read. SAME DAMN PROBLEM - 3 types of with all the same result, I was so pissed. So I then figured it was the ROM within the xbox. I was then going to go get a new xbox and flash it and see how it goes but I had an epiphany take apart the ROM and clean the laser. Which I did with rubbing alchohol.
Since then my xbox hasn't given me an "Unplayable Disc" message. And trust me I put in 30 different games and then turned it off for a while and did the same thing and it worked fine. Even had some Memorex backups I had burned that read fine.
SO IF YOUR HAVING PROBLEMS READING BACKUPS TRY CLEANING THE LASER IT DOESN'T HURT A THING!
i understand what you're saying, but i have got back-up games which have been done in the last few days using the same method that i have used but on a friends desktop computer which then work fine in my 360, but if try to burn them on my laptop i get nothing! If it's an issue of cleaning why would the backups that were burned on a friends computer work when mine don't?
