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I have trouble with my ps4. When I insert a disc on the drive unit, it starts spinning but after a few seconds it stops. Then it starts spinning again and stops. This continiu again and again. After a few minutes, DISC IS NOT RECOGNIZED. This happends with FIFA 14 and spiderman blueray movie. I have clear the data base, unplugged the PS4 and I am out of ideas. Any help? Here is a link of how it sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_AFaJ09…
After reading posts and saw videos on you tube I decide to open the PS4 and inspect the drive unit. One thing that I remembered was that the last disc I insert before the PS4 dont take any more discs, was a dvd with a sticker on it. Well, when I open the drive unit SURPRISE, the label of that disc was stick on the spinning part and it blocks the laser from reading correctly the discs. I remove the sticker, clean the glue and reassambly all the ps4 and It works. Now I can play movies and games normally. Thanks for your help Best Regards.
FIX! I had the unrecognized disc problem for a while, tried all kinds of fixes and methods I found online and nothing worked. Until I found a fix that worked for me every single time. As soon as I enter the disc, I start to tap semi-hard on top of the ps4 around the area where the disc is until my playstation reads the disc. Works every time. I still have unrecognized disc issues if I don’t tap on it. Please let me know if this works for you guys. This is a repost just in case someone didn’t see my answer. Some people have told me it worked for them.
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 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!
Bought all new parts inside the ps4 pro because it wasn’t reading a dics after a small fall to the floor, it wasn’t anything high up from where it tipped over from but after that it wouldn’t read anything.. like I said I’ve replaced the drive, and everything inside, did updates, to even shutting down and restarting, still nothing :( still won’t read dics of any kind, does anyone know what’s going on know?
On the PS4 Pro, the disk drive is on the front left side of the console. When I put the disk in, as soon as I hear it’s in and stopped inserting, I would “hit” not “tap” that top left corner. I was surprised at how hard I had to hit it. When the drive tries to read the disk, you can hear it trying to spin and find the spot it needs. When you hear that attempt again, you can try and hit it again. Sometimes it would work on the first attempt, sometimes on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. I remember it trying around 4 or 5 times, then pause, then another 4 or 5 times, before it would give you a disk reading error. Sometimes I’d have to eject the disk, and just go through all that again. It’s beyond ridiculous that this even has to be done. I finally gave up on having to do this, and purchased the online version of the game I play 95% of the time, After spending $160 back in Dec to Sony to fix/replace the drive, it started again literally 2 weeks after the 90-day warranty on the original repair, expired. They refused to help me out. They couldn’t tell me exactly what they did the first time (either fix or replaced the drive3?). I had it set up to send it in again, but then cancelled it. To !&&* with them.
Sense the new update 9.0.3 released sony forced the ps4 consoles to not read the disc’s but there is an selution make your ps4 stand vertical boom issue solved hint get a stand ;)
This was an intentional sabotage created by Sony after updating a certain version of software on the ps4 pro. My ps4 pro was working fine, then I updated the software, after updating I tried playing my game and it didn’t play anymore! I researched why, and found countless others reported the same issue after downloading this update! It !#^&@@ me off so I started banging the ps4 on top out of frustration and it started working. Unfortunately, this is the type of malicious acts big corporations do nowadays in order to make more sales, and something we have to live with!
