Can I run my xbox optical drive in my PC???

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GrungyHobo

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I want to know how to plug my 360 optical drive into my pc to run 360 games. How can I do this it has to be possible the 360 is just a computer so I don't see why I couldn't run the drive through my PC. Can someone tell me how to do this or what software I would need?
 
You want to connect your 360 drive to your computer, to play 360 games? You can't do that. The hardware isn't optimized, and it's just not set up that way.

Did your 360 break?
 
GrungyHobo said:
I want to know how to plug my 360 optical drive into my pc to run 360 games. How can I do this it has to be possible the 360 is just a computer so I don't see why I couldn't run the drive through my PC. Can someone tell me how to do this or what software I would need?
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360 is not a computer, the 360 isnt even very close to a PC as far as architecture(the xbox uses powerpc based processors, not x86 as used in a computer). Second, the games are designed for use only on the processor and graphics processing unit that are in the xbox 360, as well as windows not going to be able to read the discs as games. Short and simply, it will not work.
 
In addition to whats been said above, the xbox has its own OS (firmware? Im not quite sure about the terminology) that is not Windows. The games are coded to run on an xBox and a Windows machine is unable to read and work with the type of data (again terminology is wrong) that is written on the disk.

Does that make sense?
 
people only use xbox 360 dvd drives in their pc to rip 360 games, plus you have to flash the drive with 0800 firmware before the pc can even work with the drive, trust me i flash 360s and thats the only thing the pc can do with the drive :P if pcs could run 360 games then their would be no need to release a pc and xbox version of a game :)
 
epidemik said:
In addition to whats been said above, the xbox has its own OS (firmware? Im not quite sure about the terminology) that is not Windows. The games are coded to run on an xBox and a Windows machine is unable to read and work with the type of data (again terminology is wrong) that is written on the disk.

Does that make sense?
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Actually, its roots are in Windows 2000. :P

You're right though...the current OS is almost nothing like windows.
 
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