Wii won't read disc

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A friend of my wife sent her Wii down to me to try and fix. They can't get any discs to read. What can I do to try and fix it?
 
If you don't have the knowledge to take it apart and do the basics of drive cleaning/repair, I would suggest one of two things. You wouldn't be asking here if you already knew I would assume...

A: Find a slot loading drive of some sort that is of no use(Car stereo, PC drive that's slot loading, etc), and tear it apart to learn it's inner workings, and try to get it back together again.
Google information on this and the Wii's drive before actually touching the Wii itself, plenty documentation on it out there.

B: Send it to someone who can fix it.

The best way to learn something, is to tear it apart, but you're best off learning on something destined for the trash anyway, not your intended repair.

My bet is on the laser needing cleaned and/or adjusted, or replaced. Something that is trivial, once you can take the thing apart and put it back together the same as it was though.
 
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mod it and have the games run off a usb hard drive, homebrew channel FTW!

+1. I found a guy local to me on craigslist. Cost me about $100 for a 2TB external hard drive, and he modded my Wii and loaded the hard drive up with about 900 games for another $100. Plus he put nes, snes, master system, genesis, and tg16 emulators on mine with all the games.
 
The good thing is the mainboard is not tied to the drive board like the XBOX 360 or PS3.

I fixed numerous Wii's in the past that had drive issues.

You can buy a working replacement drive on ebay and just replace it, with no issues.

Being myself, I bought a lot of 3 non working drives once.
There can be different kinds of problems with each drive. After some testing, found out and noted what worked and what didn't on each. Then I was able to make 2 working ones out of the three.
 
Maybe you can get lucky and it just needs a good cleaning. I "fixed" many wii's when I worked at Play N Trade by just using the NOA Wii Cleaning kit.
Then again, you might get unlucky and have to take it apart to do a drive swap (as others have said)
 
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