Hello everyone-

I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else, I looked and no matter where I go there is nothing as specific as my issue is (I believe). I bought Skyrim when it was first released, had no issues playing. I gave the game to a friend to play, I missed it and bought myself another copy. My games would not load, so I erased my whole HDD (xbox) and cleared the cache, I hit start new game and it is the infinite load screen with the smoke.

The game is not scratched, the game works on my younger brothers xbox, I have deleted all saves, all downloaded files, tried with the HDD taken out, flash drives out, everything. Anyone have any suggestions? Why in the hell would this game work before and now nothing at all? So frustrating! Thanks for your patience and help!