Customer Reviews XBox floppy drive replacement November 23, 2008 J. Etenburn (Orange, TX)
The floppy drive replacement I bought for my son's XBox was in excellent shape and work just as advertised. I definitely would buy from this seller again. I got the drive in a timely manner and was very pleased. Thanks, Jim
Bad November 10, 2008 Tuco
I replaced the Toshiba/Samsung drive that came with my Xbox 360 with this same model number(switched circuit boards) and within 2 weeks it was having the same problem as the previous drive(During game play the drive would stop and an unreadable disk error message would pop up. This message would say the disk was unreadable, and ask to remove disk and clean it. The disks were not dirty or scratched and of course I lost all progress in game play!). I lubricated the rails for the laser to slide on and it has fixed the problem for now. I think there must be a manufacturing problem with these things as far as lubricating the moving parts within the drive. If I were comfortable with flashing a different model/manufacturer's drive so that it would run in my Xbox 360, I would. This drive is not the answer. Also, never work on your Xbox 360 if it is still under warranty! I only did this because Microsoft wanted to charge me $100 to fix the problem! I could get a new Xbox 360 for $200! Good Luck!
Samsung November 2, 2008 B. Rees
The drive didn't come in original box, even though I paid for a new one. The drive did not work in an xbox 360 until I swapped electronics.
Replacement DVD for 360! This was worth it! August 18, 2008 Jacob Mann 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, first I would like to say that it took me a while to figure out how to make this thing work.... You have to flash the original drive's firmware to the new drive's firmware. This is because the drive is pretty much married to your xbox... but for any semi tech-savvy user this is an easy task. Google stuff and you'll learn. =P Great product! Saved me over $50
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