The my 360s DVD Drive has just given in thread :(

[Efaws]

Been playing blue dragon, and drive has been making some funny noises,

Now 20 hours into the game, I get the first dreaded 'disk is unreadable, please clean error' despite the DVD not having a single scratch on it

Now its giving me the same error every half an hour or so


Is there a way of fixing this at all? It seems either the DVD drive is dying,... or its just dirty? 360 is out of warentee but its not been opened so I doubt MS will do anything?

 

[Efaws]

Its currently verticle and has been for a while, will horizontal make a difference?

 

[Efaws]

Mines out of normal warentee but still in the 3 years warentee, is there any chance of blagging them to repair it? Or will they instantly say no?

I have no clue on how to take a 360 apart, and most likely will balls it up, sooner have someone do it for me, but prices seem quite astromonical ?