Xbox 360: Installed games giving disc read error.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

So this is the strangest thing to me. My 360 appears to work like a champ, except, I can't install games. Every last one of them gives me disc read errors if I try to play them. It will install fine. It will usually make it to the main menu of any one game fine. If I try and play it though, it will usually lead to an error at the first loading screen, sometimes a little after, of any game. All my games play just fine uninstalled so it's not a huge deal. It's still curious though.

I did the whole format, delete cache, and re install a few times. Doesn't appear to work. I took out the hard drive and re-seated it (both the connection to the console and the internal SATA connection) and that hasn't worked either. Which leads me to believe either I have a firmware issue or hard drive issue. However, I don't have any corrupt save files or anything of that sort. I'm left a bit confused by this. I guess it could be the disc drive but I imagine I would have trouble when playing games from disc which just doesn't happen.

Any ideas? It's an Xbox Elite 120gb built in April 09 if that helps.

[casterofdreams]

That's very strange. Have you tried perhaps playing a piece of downloadable content? Maybe a map pack or single player add on? I feel if that doesn't work but you still have access to your game saves it could be a bad sector. I'm no expert in HDDs but maybe the 360 software uses certain sectors of a hard drive for certain things. It just so happens that one sector it uses for installs or what ever is a bad sector.