not really sure where to put this

[Nanaki]

sorry mods, but I'm not sure which forum.
So I bought a new ff7 about a year or two ago. Great, playing my way through fine, took a break lately due to study exams blahblahblah.
I go to play it last night, relaxing after my engineering project.
Put in the disc, and straight away, I get grinding noises as the disc tries to read O.o I put in a different PS1 game and that was fine, all PS2 games are fine too.
Any ideas? I really don't want to buy this game again, this is my second one to stop working (though admittedly I know why the first one stopped..huge scrapes, like -gouges- in the disc :P but this one's pretty good)
None of the 3 discs will read, just a horrible noise that sounds like the console is killing the game :( the ff8 demo disc reads fine.
Anyone?

[Neo]

There is something about the ff7 and ff8.
When I played them on the psx ff7 would work fine but ff8 would freeze on the opening preview clip.
I did look into it as you are now, all I was told was that it was a common fault in the games.

[SaveMySoul]

Try using a PS instead of a PS2