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[polomaan]

My dvd drive is only playing movies, no games.  When trying to play games, it starts it as a movie but does the shows an error menu saying that "This is an xbox game.....please put it in an xbox."  The games I have tried have been orginal xbox games.  I tried an update to the hard drive (attached) but the xbox 360 says the drive is unrecognizable.  Any ideas?  

Also, if the drive needs to be replaced, is it hard to take care of that?  I have moderate technical skill.

Last thing- I have done the x-clamp replacement to 2 360's, and they work fine now!

[RDC]

There are no 'ideas', if you don't have the original drive or key from it you're not getting the key from the motherboard, catch-22. Unless that's figured out sometime then that 360 is really only good for parts.

If you have a 360 with it's original drive (that hasn't been screwed with) and it's having problems reading games a POT tweak or laser replacement should get it going again.