ps4 wont read disc, just spinning and stops SOLVED!

This is a fairly common problem with PS4's. You'll need to replace the drive or the laser at a minimum. Usually just replacing the laser will fix this issue, but sometimes they need the entire drive replaced.

I hope this helps.

I stuck a butter knife in mine and pressed the disc down and it works now

Just replaced the lens in my ps4 and now it only read disc when i stand it vertical.

“Hitting,” “slapping,” and “intentionally dropping” a hard drive, as crazy as it sounds, has been known to work before. However, this was back in the good-old-days when hard drives were prone to “stiction.” “Stiction” occurs when the heads of the hard drive “stick” to the platter and cause the drive to not spin. Slapping the drive then, offered a chance of freeing the stuck heads and freeing the platters so they can spin up. Even if the hard drive starts spinning again, the chances for recovering all the data is small, since now there is very likely platter damage (since you just “dragged” the heads across the platters).

In these rare instances, we use much safer techniques inside our ISO Class 5 portable cleanroom to free up the “stuck” heads using tools specifically designed for the job. These tools gently lift the heads off the platters, unsticking them safely. The heads can then be safely moved back to their ramp or “park” position.

Hitting, slapping, or dropping a hard drive will often lead to scratched platters. Once platters are scratched, it’s likely no one will ever be able to recover the data (no matter how much you’re willing to pay), at least the data which falls under the scratched surface.

These dangerous “shock” techniques should never be used on a hard drive containing data that is valuable to you. It’s a guarantee that they will lessen your chances for recovery with us and likely some data will be permanently lost.

My ps4 regularly either won't eject discs or won't accept them. I'm quite sure its something to do with the manual eject screw. When my ps4 doesn't suck in the disc I put it in the drive then turn the manual eject screw the opposite way until it's all the way in. If the manual eject screw is a bit tight then keep on turning until you feel it go loose then tighten again then go back a slight bit to where it feels slightly loose then power on your ps4, it should start reading now, once mine didn't so what I did was carried on turning the manual eject screw the opposite way and eventually I heard a click, I stopped and powered on the ps4 and it started to read the disc again. Hope this helps!

Had the same problem with a broken PS4 I bought and fixed. I was racking my brain trying all sorts of things to get the disc drive working, replacing flex cables, cleaning connections, etc. I finally ended up almost completely disassembling it and I found that one of the side rods that holds the laser carriage had shifted off one of the set screws, thus throwing the lens out of focus, making it unable to read the disc. I shifted the rod forward back onto the set screw and whala, it worked perfectly! I hope this helps some of you guys out!

My PS4 does a pattern of noises, then it sounds as if I placed the cd again. After doing the pattern a second time, it says 'unrecognized disc'. I tried it with several cds but it doesn't work. Please help me!

i got that same problem and i got my ps4 2 year's

I'm having trouble with mine at the moment and it's a new copy of fifa18 it won't read properly. Exactly what happened with fifa17 last year, coincidence or not? I exchanged fifa17 for a different copy and the 2nd worked fine, I intend to swap fifa18 for a new copy unless I can get help here.

I've initialised the system twice, once partial and the other the full reboot that takes hours, still no success and I'm not pleased truth be told. Bought it 3 years ago, not sure what model it is but it's 3 yo. I have neglected it in truth, hardly gets used and has never been cleaned properly, the vents must be full of crap, could this be a reason for the malfunction? I'm not brave enough to start taking it to pieces

Any advice on how to solve this sh*t?

Thanks, Mike

but if it plays all disks except any gta disk it cant be the player and it would be too coincidental to be only gta disks that are broken mine is just telling me they are dirty or damaged but they aren't and i try a diffrent gta disk and its the same problem why only that disk

I brought my PS4 about 6months ago it’s not that old, the problem is every time I insert a disc it reads it then opens the game and goes back off to tell me that the disc is damaged. I know for a fact it isn’t as I brought my gta5 game yesterday. I’m reallt not sure about what to do

Okay, I don't know what's going on. I just recently got a copy of Call of Duty WW2, and I haven't been able to play it because my PS4 won't except the disk, however, if I put in a copy of a game it already knows, like Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, it works like a charm. I don't know what's going on, and I was wondering if I could get some help. Anyone?

I wish to say tabing works though it is not needed infact. If your read disc problem occurs after vertical usage of PS4 Pro, and tabbing works for it, you may horizantally put your machine upside down 2 days and get back normal after that period of time, you will see your disc starts reading. That's what happened to me. When i placed vertically Playstation Pro of mine certain time, it stopped reading discs and giving unrecognized disc error. Yes tabing on the machine works though it is not everytime and hard to tab certain point. So i assume something happens in machanic of the PS4 when it was placed vertically. Simply with tabing we changed state of the disc machanisicm orginal state. So i tested machine with resting it 2 days upside down 2 days on the desk and get back horizantal position normally after that period of time. Problems solved. Never use your machine if that state occurs before vertically cause it return back problematic state. It is my experience

I had a problem where when I put any disc in it would chug a bit then sound like the disc was being relocated then chug a bit more. After this I’d get a pop up saying unrecognised disc.

I tried many things. First I tried completely dismantling my pro to get to and clean the disc drive lens, but it already looked pretty clean and that didn’t make a difference.

Secondly I tried forcing my pro to update in safety mode to rebuild the database as I heard that could help, but again it didn’t.

Next I began messing about with applying pressure above the disc drive with my hand (squeezing the front and back together) as I inserted the disc as some people suggested knocking on the console. This did help often but not 100%.

Lastly I changed my PS4’s orientation, I have mine vertical by default as I have limited space. I changing it to horizontal, this didn’t really help. But turning it upside down vertically 100% fixed my problem. It now reads discs quickly and quietly 100% of the time! I can’t believe something so simple and honestly a little bit stupid has worked so well. Give it a try yourself!

Tapped it and it worked! Couldn't believe it! Been struggling for ages. Thanks so much to whomever said to tap it while it's loading.

So I was having issues with Doom. I was in the middle of playing when it stopped. I ejected and put the disc back in after cleaning, and it spun for a second and stopped. After a while I figured I'd try fogging the disc with my breath before putting it in and then hammering X to start the application.

It worked for some reason… hope this helps someone else down the line.

Im having an issue where the drive will play DVDs but not Bluray or any game discs?