Posted by Neck & Red on 01/27/07 22:14

"No Way" <no@way.com> wrote in message
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>I was wondering if it's better for the drive physically and
> mechnically if the game disk is left in there all the time, including
> when it's being turned off and on, or take the disk out before turning
> it off and have the drive empty when turning it on?
>
> I guess what I'm wondering is, would it pose any undue stress at all
> on the DVD drive if the disk was left in there all the time?
>
> One thing to note is that, the way the DVD drive functions is that,
> the second the game is turned on, the DVD drive will always be
> spinning, until such that I exit out of the game and go back out to
> the user menu of the Xbox 360. And there are times when I watch
> vidoes, listen to music off my 360 as well.

You can turn that off, just go into the menu and tell it to boot to
dashboard instead of booting to a game.

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