Summary: If your CD drive makes a grinding sound, you'll need to replace it. Here's why.
When I put a cd in my pc or try to burn a cd it makes this horrible grinding sound and I get a message stating that the file is corrupted. What could be the problem and can I fix it without calling in the tech guys.
Oh dear. Horrible grinding sounds are never a good thing.
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From that description alone, I'd be seriously looking at a hardware problem. CD drives make a little noise as the disk spins, of course, but grinding noises shouldn't be part of it.
It could be many things drive related, from a misaligned or wobbly motor to other parts of the drive coming into contact with the CD itself. The worst case is that it's damaging the CDs that you put into the drive.
In short, I'd stop using it, and replace the drive.
It's not a terribly hard operation, so depending on your level of comfort with such things, replacing the CD-ROM drive is something you might do yourself. But that also means it shouldn't be that pricey to have someone else do it either.
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I have a HP laptop and it stopped burning DVDs, nomater what it would just make grinding noise and say invalid disc. After some time it stopped playing discs either.
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After cleaning the lens it works great and haven't had trouble since!
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