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My son's 360 has now died, I really can't believe it lived for so long to tell you the truth with all the abuse it has gone through. I have one issue though. How the hell do you get the game disc out of it that was in it when it died without ripping the 360 to pieces?. Is there a manual eject like the Xbox Classic had somewhere?.

http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-360/ ... eject-disc

WHy not try the towel trick? http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Xbox-360-Towel-Trick (after you get the game out of course!

GhostlyGamer wrote:WHy not try the towel trick? http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Xbox-360-Towel-Trick (after you get the game out of course!

That is noot good advice to give the only think that will fix a rrod console is bga rework if that is indeed the fault, other methods only fix it temporally and can cause futher damage.

If it is buggered go buy a new slim console the new e models are really cheap now and they don't suffer the same faults as the fat models and have a built in kinetc port and wifi.

what is actually wrong with it there xman?

RRd is the issue but after pulling it apart, I'm thinking spilt coke is the real issue. I was prepared to right it off because they are super cheap here now like $139 with Minecraft included. The biggest problem was Grand Thief Auto disc inside the machine when it died which I did recover but it did take a total tear down to get it out as this model didn't have the side manual release or the front one that involves working the gear wheel. I pulled the machine apart, pulled out the DVDrive and opened it's lid and lifted the disc out. Pity about the old 60GB HDD data but senior can start all over again aye. I have a HDD transfer cable but time is not on my side so he can start again I think unless he wants to do the research on how to recover the data and seeing as he didn't appear interested in that idea, it can go out with the machine I think.

you can just buy a cover for the hdd and pop it straight in your new console you dont really need to transfer any thing, but purchased stuff will need re-downloading as it is console locked.

if it is on live you can just download your profile from the cloud on your new console.

if you get a modded one you can just run a program from the console (xm360) and unlock it and it will work on your new console.

professor_jonny wrote:you can just buy a cover for the hdd and pop it straight in your new console you dont really need to transfer any thing, but purchased stuff will need re-downloading as it is console locked.

What is this "cover"?. No purchased stuff that I know of, only game saves etc.

professor_jonny wrote: if it is on live you can just download your profile from the cloud on your new console.

Yep it is a live machine but the HDD in the replacement machine, ( a spare I had swapped an Xbox for), only has a small HDD not that this one was big at only 60GB. Where the hell do MS buy these baby HDDs from?.

Xman, he means this: http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Enclos ... B004YV9TSA.

About the hard drive, you will have to open up the big gray enclosure that your old fat 360 HDD sits inside of. Inside that gray enclosure is a laptop HDD. Pull it out, place into the enclosure like the one in the link above. Place that into new slim 360.

On the hard drive sizes, you gotta think that the 360 has been out since 2005. Such sizes were acceptable then.