I have been having some problems burning an 360 ISO image.

First of all I have made backups many times before and never had any problems from my laptop using Windows Vista. Recently I reinstalled Vista as I usually do a format every 6 months and it was about time, on top of that I upgraded to Xtreme 1.0 recently. This is all that had changed.

Recently I got a copy of Forza 2 and went through the normal process and the game burned successfully, however when I put it in my 360 it came up with Open Tray every time i tried to boot it after making a horrible sound. I thought it may be some thing to do with the new firmware or the discs but all my other stealth made backups worked perfectly still and some were burned on the same type of disc. I decided to reburn with CloneCD instead of IMGBurn and the exact same thing happened again. I then decided to tyr burning on a different PC, this time a desktop running Windows XP Home. I used CloneCD and when I put it in my 360 it booted first time.

Now I went back to check the original discs that were burned in my laptop that were not working using XDVD Mulleter. The program took a long time to load the disc in XDVD and when it finally did it would say 'file handle not found' or that 'it was not a 360 ISO or the offset was wrong'. The copy burned in the XP Desktop loaded loaded like normal with all the stealth options checked, etc.

Anyone have any ideas as to why my laptop burner is no longer burnining the ISOS correctly given this information, I am confused completely?

what prog did you use to make the backups? patched them with?

That should not make any difference as it worked in one pc and not the other, and were done the exact same way as all my other backups which work perfectly. I even tried another game and the exact same thing happened, the game worked when burned in the XP desktop and not my Vista laptop with the same problem. All the games burned perfectly withe everything the same using my laptop in the past.

Upon looking more closely at the 2 discs it seems like the laptop is burning them closer to the centre which is causing the discs to not be recognised as 360 games when burned with my laptop. The laptop reads the laptop burned disc with the correct label but when checking with XDVD Mulleter it does not read it as a 360 game and neither does the console.

Which is?

burning the image with CloneCD or IMGBurn. I have tried two different images one old one that worked in the burner in the past and the new one that I first identified the problem with. Both did not work but did work when burned on a different machine. The exact same images.

Since you don't know how the games were made, and I know of no laptop with Vista that make or extract xbox360 games, I am CLOSING this thread, because of the obvious.

DO NOT Remake.