I have the same problem just press the the eject button when you first start your ps3 like 2 or three times and you will see the hard drive...
I'm sorry to tell you but theres was nothing wrong with your blu-ray disk reader your ps3 hard drive was currupted and that lead to a freeze up in...
I also did this and my refurb laser died within 20 minutes and my ps3 had the latest firmware, but i also believe the talk about the newer...
I had this problem and still do what you have to do is just press the eject button becasue the ps3 is waiting for a cd to do something so the ps3...
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