My Xbox keeps "eating" my games and DVDs

[Querjek]

A few nights ago, my Xbox started acting weird: whenever I'd try to take out a disc, the disc tray would come out, but the dis wouldn't. They all somehow became stuck inside the Xbox system. I figured out, by using a Gameboy cleaning kit and flipping my Xbox, that I could get the discs out, but they got some straight line scratches on them. What can I do to stop this from now on?

[omnedon]

You have a Philips drive more than likely. If you've put a rental disc in it with some stickum on the center of the disc,that stickum is now coating the inside of your drive transport and grip. Now it's eating discs. Like a pizza dough stuck to the roof of a pizzaria.

[Querjek]

Wow, you've got that exacctly right. Not only do I have a Philips drive, but I recently put a copy of "Bad(der) Santa" in it, and I had taken the sticker from the middle of the disc off because it was a previous rental. What can I do to fix this?

[Slate]

Expensive Option: Replace the Xbox DVD Drive With A New Xbox DVD Drive.

[omnedon]

Disassemble and clean with goo gone. The transport, and the trannsport cap. Gotta get ALL of it.

Just like the Xbox manual sez, never put a disc with foreign material stuck to it in your Xbox. The Philips are very susceptible to this. I see them regularly.