Macbook won't read disks!

my macbook won't read disks, it justs ejects it immediately after insertion.  It's a software based issue because I have my hard drive partitioned with linux mint, and on the linux os all disks work with no problems.  It might be a red flag but I ran an executable file earlier labeled nocd.  On the other hand though acouple days ago I inserted a disk for an apple tech utility and it just ejected the disk immediately as well which was the first time this happened, but i didnt think anything of it because I assumed the utility just wasn't compatible with my computer.  I work at a help desk for a university so i thought maybe because it was not a university owned computer, I don't know, i'm not sure what my logic was there. but reguardless what i've tried was to kill backround processes involved with disk mounting and letting them respawn, there don't seem to be any unusual processes running on my system over all, after I killed those processes my home directory couldn't be located, I'm not sure if what I killed had anything to do with it, and don't really believe it did.  I know the superdrive is not dirty or anything of that sort seeing as it read the disk fine in linuxmint.  Any suggestion?  thanks in advance for any replies

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