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Trying to rip my DVDs using a 2nd hand BenQ I picked up from eBay and flashed with 0800. XBBC recognizes it and unlocks it successfully but whenever I try to read the disk it crashes after reading ~500kb. No error, it just closes. Anyone can maybe give a few clues? Thanks.

As I said I already took it apart once so I'm anything but thrilled about taking it apart again. Just for the sake of things - Why would I need a different BIOS? Seems that FATXplorer V3.0 beta can unlock the drive, so isn't that enough? Also if I understand you correctly do you believe I should just download ISOs of games I already have on disc? Thanks. Ugh, I won't risk breaking the Xbox for that. Guess that option's out the window. And like you said, even if I bought it I can't know whether the drive I'd get would really be Rev F or whatever the seller happens to have around. Sorry that I'm asking noob questions. I'm new to Xbox and got it 2nd hand just a couple of months ago. I only had Sony before.

So after I finally replaced the HDD with 1TB one, I've been trying to rip the games I have to ISO files using DVD2Xbox. The issue is that after around 10% to 15% the process hangs and the drive starts making weird noises, at which point I just shut it down cause I was afraid maybe it was causing damage. Anyway this has happened with 3 different discs already and I did not see any visible scratches. Is my DVD drive dying? (The Xbox is revision 1.2, softmodded with Rocky5 and the drive is a Samsung). I thought about using a DVD cleaner disc, which some people said works great while others said it does more harm than good. Anyone has any experience with those? Also, I'm really not good with messing around with hardware. It was already difficult enough to replace the HDD (I actually managed to tear an IDE cable) so I'm not very enthusiastic about taking the DVD drive apart to manually clean the laser. I thought about maybe just replacing the drive altogether. I found this one on eBay: Samsung SD-616 IDE 16x DVD CD-ROM Drive (48xCD-ROM, 2001) | eBay The image says revision F, so I assume I can flash it with Xbox firmware and it'll work? Although I'm a bit concerned that some sellers have a large stock and not all of them might be the same revision. Anyone has any experience? Thanks and sorry for the noob questions.