Regarding 5.25" bays

[brianhennessy19298]

So guys, I have a question. In my ongoing build, I have 3 5.25" bays on my 230T. I'll be putting an optical drive in one, and a spring loaded drawer in the other. As for the third one, I require someones expertise. I understand that an xbox disc wont be read in a standard optical drive, due to the disc spinning in the opposite direction. However, I was wondering if I removed the disc drive from my xbox 360, and made all the wire connections etc, would it be capable of playing xbox discs on my pc?

[Lehti]

My educated guess is Windows won't ever recognize the drive because it couldn't find the appropriate drivers for it (and no, generic Microsoft drivers won't work) and even if it did, you couldn't play your Xbox 360 games anyway, because the 360 has a POWER processor, not an x86-64 one.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

That's just not going to work, it's a completely different processor architecture. THEORETICALLY it's possible to emulate it, practically it's not.

[brianhennessy19298]

Okay, thanks guys