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I don't know if anybody remembers the cute commercial where a kid sees an adult putting a tape in a VCR and asks the parent what he's doing. Daddy says, "I'm feeding the VCR" and the next scene is the kid spooning porridge in opening. CD and DVD drive are subject to all of the usual failures of elector-mechanical optical devices, with motors and lenses that get dirty, plus sometimes somebody just sticks the wrong thing in the tray and forces it shut. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to replace your CD burner or DVD Drive and they're also cheap. CD and DVD drives are outwardly identical, so the replacement procedure is exactly the same. The main issue you'll run into is old recorder software not supporting the new drive or being upgradeable, so you should buy a drive with possible whenever possible.