…and has a game disc inside of it. What happens, you say? Well, bad things. Things that have already been documented. Things that I knew would happen when I started moving my Xbox 360 but thought it wouldn’t happen to me, because I know my Xbox 360 inside and out. Well, it happened to me, my game disc officially ruined, but not without a photo opportunity!

So here’s an innocent looking Call of Duty 4 “mockup” Dual Layer DVD. By mockup, it means this is a Dual Layer DVD that just has Call of Duty 4 written on the front and has been put through my moving XBOX while it was turned on. This does not in any way imply that any data from Call of Duty 4 was actually on said disc, because that would be copyright infringement. Right, so let’s take a look at the after effects:

This picture was taken after great attempt was put into reducing the scratches using the toothpaste technique. However, some predominant scratches (mainly at the edges and inner part of the disc) remained. What happens (by my educated guess) is that when the XBOX is moved incorrectly, the disc that is being spun inside of the drive slips out deeper into the XBOX disc drive. The scratches occur because the disc is still spinning at great speeds while being slung into the back of the drive (where space is limited, but is big enough for a disc to go into anyways) and the contact between that and the disc makes circular scratches which pretty much destroy any chance of recovery. Had this been a real disc with an actual game on it…

Some more pics to fancy:

On the other side of things, here’s a little note: back your games up. It’s harder with XBOX games to back them up (and play backups), but it’s not impossible.