The ps3 console continues to say (reading hard disk drive) before playing my ncaa 11

If you have warranty with your PS3 you can send it to Sony so they can fix it. If you don't have warranty anymore then they will charge you $150 (that's a 150 dollars or some people said it was more pending on the different problems) for the repair of your PS3. Either way it can take up to 6 weeks before they send your PS3 back. Also note they wipe your hard drive contents!
Speaking of which you might try just this: reformatting your PS3 hard drive!
But if that doesn't work and you're not ready to pay that amount I suggest you use a guide that let's you repair your PS3 by yourself without the need of opening it. Such a guide fixes stuff like Yellow/Red/Green Light of Death (is your PS3 having one of those lights?) as they call it and other common problems with PS3 consoles (error codes, black screen, disk errors, error codes). Click here to read about this do it yourself guide.

try cleaning the back of disk with rubbing alcohol if doesnt worh clean the internal hard drive lazer eye with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol ENJOY

format the hard drive. A quick one should do
Try games again

Worked for me

ps3 wont read any discs

That means that the hard drive is faulty and must be replaced.

If PS is under warranty , then contact Sony.

Otherwise read below:



How to upgrade your PlayStation 3 hard drive


Replace the Playstation 3 Hd


YouTube - Gamehelper: PS3 HDD Replacement

The Ultimate ultimade guide to replacing your PS3 Hard Drive .


Replacing Hard Disk Drive (HDD) on PLAYSTATION®3

just keep trying restoring hard drive adventualy it will work

This problem always happen when you switch off your console while it is saving data or reading data from the HDD, so your HDD file system damaged, in order to solve this problem you need an external SATA 2.5 hard disk case, extract your PS3 hard drive and insert it in the SATA 2.5 case, plug your hard dist to a computer, you will find that the whale hard disk is unallocated, so format it with FAT32 or NTFS using your computer, after that return your hard disk to your PS3 console, now, your PS3 console will recognize it, and it will ask you to format it, say YES!!... congratulation your PS3 console is working now

Source:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26027507

its the hard drive take out the hard drive replace it / also clean the lesn on the lazer that reads the disc that play in the ps3