Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
CD/DVD drives are ridiculously cheap. You can get good DVD drives for under $20 USD on tons of websites. Save youself some frustration and just get a new drive.
Precisely.

Whatever the case you will need a CD/DVD drive at some point. A typical SATA DVD writer will set you back about £20.00 and can read both CDs and DVDs (including Rs and RWs etc).