I hadn't used DVDs in years either, but when I did need my DVD drive yesterday (I wanted to try out Arch Linux) I found out it's malfunctioning :/ I can burn th

I hadn't used DVDs in years either, but when I did need my DVD drive yesterday (I wanted to try out Arch Linux) I found out it's malfunctioning :/ I can burn the disc with it, but for some reason it refuses to read anything. To top it off, for some reason inserting my USB stick crashes the bootloader. rEFIt works perfectly fine until I put in the drive, then everything freezes.