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Hi

I have just got an XBOX (with Halo and MM3), and am very pleased with it.

However, I have identified that it has the Thomson DVD drive, not the Phillips or Samsung.

I have read (no time to test) that this does not read DVD+R / DVD+RW / CD-R / CD-RW...

Can anyone tell me if I am going to have issues with this drive, and if it is worth swapping out to a Samsung. My aims are to mod the XBOX and run unsigned code and backup my titles.

Cheers

PS. NO! I am NOT going to be playing pirated games!

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Hi

I have just got an XBOX (with Halo and MM3), and am very pleased with it.

However, I have identified that it has the Thomson DVD drive, not the Phillips or Samsung.

I have read (no time to test) that this does not read DVD+R / DVD+RW / CD-R / CD-RW...

Can anyone tell me if I am going to have issues with this drive, and if it is worth swapping out to a Samsung. My aims are to mod the XBOX and run unsigned code and backup my titles.

Cheers

PS. NO! I am NOT going to be playing pirated games!

I thought the thompson drives had been changed and fixed and should be like samsung drives now or take it back and get a samsung, say your current xbox is having issues ;) I have a Thompson drive but I havent modded it so I have no issues but if you have the chance try and get the Samsung

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So, you believe the thompsons should be ok?

I tested a CD-R this morning (only music cd-r) and it did not recognise the disk, but will test further later.

Thing is, if I take it back, how can I be assured of a Samsung in the next XBOX?

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So, you believe the thompsons should be ok?

I tested a CD-R this morning (only music cd-r) and it did not recognise the disk, but will test further later.

Thing is, if I take it back, how can I be assured of a Samsung in the next XBOX?

I am not entirely sure, which shop did you buy it from?

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The new drives are fine. If you had saves on your hard drive when you got it, you got someone's old returned one, if not it's almost certainly a new Thomson.

They still won't read cd-rs and only some cdrw, but they work for games.

I didn't have a problem with my old Thomson xbox at all, I think it's basically because the drives are older, and because people haven't been treating the xbox all that well that they've been failing. If you take care of your stuff they should be fine. The only actual fault was the old drives scratching faint line around the edges of discs, but microsoft said that it wouldn't damage the discs enough to stop them working, and will replace them in the (very) unlikely event that they do.

You can't do anything to guarantee you get a samsung drive unless you open the xbox and turn it on.

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So, destrux, you have had DVD-r working on a Thompson drive? Maybe I'll get a DVD-R then and swll my +R.

yeah, I burned a few movies using dvdxcopy and they played like a charm on the xbox. With cd-r and cd-rw I just get "don't recognize disk" error.

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I got an original Xbox (v1.0) with a thompson.. works wonders.. it reads DVDanything ( +R -R +RW -RW), CD-RWs (below 4x) and rarely locks up... the CDRWs are very very slow. My friend got a phillips and it only reads select DVD-R, unsure about +R, but it takes 3x longer to read the games then in my box. Donno why, xboxes are all made uniquely I guess.

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Thompsons are pretty good actually, have no trouble with and dvd+-r's, also read most cdrw....

who the hell uses cdr's anyway? you not gonna get any games on them and if you are you might as well put it on the hard drive its faster, cheaper and you dont have to get off your ass :D

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So the consensus seems to be that the thompson is ok and will read DVD+R? Can anyone who has achieved a DVD+R on and Thompson please let me know.

I recently burned a movie to DVD+RW, and have tried that in my XBOX and it says the disk is not recognised...

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who the hell uses cdr's anyway? you not gonna get any games on them and if you are you might as well put it on the hard drive its faster, cheaper and you dont have to get off your ass :D

:blush: I was attempting to use them when I was transferring songs from pc to xbox. Now I got the music mixer with the transfer tool, so no need for them now. At that time I also didn't have a dvd burner, lol.

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When i had my old 1.0 xbox with the thompson (not modded) the drive failed to read xbox game discs too the point where it was too much and had to be returned. Got a new one with a samsung and now its modded and the drive is great but it seems that most people here were fine with their thompsons.

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