DVD- RW Problem

i am having problem burning a dvd in my HP pavilion dv6 2001au laptop. it used to burn dvds before but now there is an error message saying "burning failed" it strats to burn the dvd but when it reaches say 80- 90% nothing happens and ": burning failed" pops up. please help.....
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