Hey /r/ps3 I need some insight before I start pull stuff apart. My PS3 won't read discs though if I restart the PS3 a few times and wait a while than it will. Also when I use the recovery menu method it always finds corrupt files than once recovered works until the console is turned off.

Most the posts I've seen say, "Your blu-ray drive is shot". I don't know much about the drive itself but I think I can exclude this because it does work after some fiddling. I'm yet to clean the drive as I haven't found a T8 Security Torx yet though I'm keen to give that a shot.

Alternatively are there any other solutions people have found? Also does anybody have any knowledge of when I do go to the recovery menu it finds corrupted files?

Thanks.