I dunno. If the drive key were wrong you wouldn’t be able to play discs. If you can play discs, chances are it’s right (not 100 percent sure). You don’t have anything to prove the drive? It’s been a few years and I’ve had so much happen in my life since that I vaguely remember. Why not go to Costco (because of the return policy) get one of their plug in drives, I read the one’s that are powered by USB won’t work, and load up a few disc images in your games folder and see if it works. Like I said I tried 4. It’s finicky? Doesn’t make sense why one would work over another. If your drive lights up when it’s plugged in and game in then eject and walk away. It may take quite awhile. Took me 45 minutes the first time. After that it boots right up. Wish I could help you more. I can sit down and face time you or something. I feel like it’s the drive you’re trying to use, I could be totally wrong.
The first time it took 45 minutes to load, was it stuck on reading or was it stuck on close tray?
Before the whole thing would cycle now when I eject the drive it just says “close tray” and I need to hit a again to close the tray.
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