Ps3 Disk Drive Dead

[dkwookie]

I had to do that on my other ps3 that died before Christmas. My son had been playing assasins creed 2 when it died completely. Tried all methods of getting disc out, hold power etc. Ended up taking it apart to get disk. I would only recomend as last resort if you have no plans to try repair option because I ended up bending the disk tray housing when I missed a screw not mentioned in tutorial. The area the blue ray sits on is so cheap it's no wonder they are failing. Mine was sat on a couple of cheap bits of sponge and the cable from blue ray to motherboard looked like it was attached with sticky back plastic.
I was shocked how much dust was in there too. Looked like insides of a Vax.
I hope the slim is put together a bit better!!

Edit:
So I had weekend horibilis. My main laptop did update for Vista service pack 2 and failed during restart. It wont boot at all now and I lost my recovery disks. While looking for vista bootup tips on my wifes netbook we managed to get an unshiftable malware that basically prevents any process running. All that and my PS3 has tested my faith in technology this weekend. I got so stressed by it all I forgot to get the Mrs a valentines card! I am going to take up the Luge