Xbox One Having Problems Reading Discs

[Deadpool_X]

I got MonHun on launch day and excitedly tore into it, wanting to start hunting as quickly as possible. Turned my Day One Xbox on, popped the disc in and...nothing. It's like the drive didn't recognize a disc was in there. I ejected it and tried again. No change. I did a hard reset on my system, then tried again. Nothing. Wondering if it's the disc, I grabbed Skyrim off the shelf and popped it in. Again, nothing. I then tried Doom, and it read. Tried MonHun, nothing. Hard rebooted the system again, popped the disc in, and it finally read it and started installing. All was well until my kid tossed in Madden last Monday. When I tried going back to MonHun, I encountered the problem again. This time, I listened when the disc inserted, and noticed the drive made a loud buzzing sound, tried reading a couple times, then went silent.

Anyone else have this problem? Is the drive dying? Does it just need some canned air sprayed at it?

 

[Broken Joystick]

This will sound weird but has worked for me, and I recognise exactly the issue you're talking about. That buzzing sound is horrifying the first time you hear it. My solution:

Partly insert the disc, but hold on to it for about a second, until you feel the system pulling it in much faster, and let go. It should skip that buzzing sound and you should hear the system start reading the disc.

 

[Expy]

This will sound weird but has worked for me, and I recognise exactly the issue you're talking about. That buzzing sound is horrifying the first time you hear it. My solution:

Partly insert the disc, but hold on to it for about a second, until you feel the system pulling it in much faster, and let go. It should skip that buzzing sound and you should hear the system start reading the disc.

Click to shrink...

Uhhh if you try this... try it with a blank CD or something.

 

[Broken Joystick]

Uhhh if you try this... try it with a blank CD or something.

Click to shrink...

Ha, I know it sounds like a stupid thing to do but the discs are fine, both me and my brother have had this issue with day one Xbones.

 

[XVerdena]

This will sound weird but has worked for me, and I recognise exactly the issue you're talking about. That buzzing sound is horrifying the first time you hear it. My solution:

Partly insert the disc, but hold on to it for about a second, until you feel the system pulling it in much faster, and let go. It should skip that buzzing sound and you should hear the system start reading the disc.

Click to shrink...

Yep, can confirm this works.

 

[Terbinator]

This will sound weird but has worked for me, and I recognise exactly the issue you're talking about. That buzzing sound is horrifying the first time you hear it. My solution:

Partly insert the disc, but hold on to it for about a second, until you feel the system pulling it in much faster, and let go. It should skip that buzzing sound and you should hear the system start reading the disc.

Click to shrink...

Literally had this problem/fix with my Day-1 Edition and still works now.

 

[Fizie]

Yes same thing started happening to my OG Xbox One last year. So annoying, it would take 10-20 times to inserting the disc in different ways to finally get it to read. Saw on Youtube a quick fix - holding the disc partially in for like a second and then letting the Xbox 'grab' it (same as what the above poster suggested) which sometimes worked for me but still not good enough.

Ended up just buying an X.

 

[speedomodel]

This happens to me every so often. Hard reset usually works for me though...

If not, I play a digital game and say I am buying a One X tomorrow then don't.

 

[Remo Williams]

I once had a similar problem with my PS2, so the solution might not be applicable here, but you might as well give it a shot. One day the drive just stopped reading discs, and after a bit of googling, I found the (really peculiar) solution. The trick was to try loading as many different supported disc formats as possible (music CDs, DVD films, PS1 games, CD and DVD-based PS2 games). What finally fixed it for me was Ico, an early CD-based PS2 game, and I've never had any issues after that.

 

[Deadpool_X]

Yes same thing started happening to my OG Xbox One last year. So annoying, it would take 10-20 times to inserting the disc in different ways to finally get it to read. Saw on Youtube a quick fix - holding the disc partially in for like a second and then letting the Xbox 'grab' it (same as what the above poster suggested) which sometimes worked for me but still not good enough.

Ended up just buying an X.

Click to shrink...

I'm starting to lean toward trying to convince my wife to let me get an X. If I tell her my Xbox is starting to die and I need a new one, it's a whole lot easier to convince her than wanting to trade up when I have a working system.

Literally had this problem/fix with my Day-1 Edition and still works now.

Click to shrink...

Did you only have to do it 1 time, or each time you put in a disc?

 

[DarthWalden]

Did you try blowing on your discs?

 

[Fiery Phoenix]

My OG Xbox One started doing that after a couple of years of use, but I wasn't overly concerned because I was always going to upgrade to an X.

I think it may be dust that is causing the issue, though.

 

[Black_Stride]

This will sound weird but has worked for me, and I recognise exactly the issue you're talking about. That buzzing sound is horrifying the first time you hear it. My solution:

Partly insert the disc, but hold on to it for about a second, until you feel the system pulling it in much faster, and let go. It should skip that buzzing sound and you should hear the system start reading the disc.

Click to shrink...

This def works whenever my Xbox descide to NOT read disks.

90% the time disks just work, that last 10% i just do this and no issues.

Think its just old age....day one Xbox One here.

 

[hank_tree]

Any chance you are standing your console vertically?

 

[Terbinator]

you only have to do it 1 time, or each time you put in a disc?

Click to shrink...

It's been so intermittent I don't even class it as an issue, especially after discovering the fix myself back in about 2014. It's almost as if the motor in the drive doesn't realise it needs to spin up until it's forced to grab the disc.