IMac cannot read new disc

I recently bought software from the Apple store. When I insert the installation disc, my disc drive immediately ejects it. I thought maybe it was the disc itself, so I tried it on my Macbook Pro. It worked perfectly fine. How can I correct this problem?

This may sound simplistic but, if the disk is not visible, have you checked Finder preferences to check what items you want visible on the desktop?
Spaces also takes some getting used to and I found I could not empty trash because the warning window was sometimes showing up in a different space to the one from I was in when trying to delete the trash. The warning was not visible even when I made visible all 6 spaces screens. Only when opening each space at a time did I find the trash warning window where I could confirm the instruction to empty the trash.
I give the above example because something similar happened when I was searching for and trying to eject a Diskwarrior DVD. The computer wanted me to confirm eject instruction because in the case of DW, it wanted to know if I wanted to eject all 3 partitions, and only when I confirmed ok was the disk finally ejected.
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