Optical drive vibrates when burning files

When I burn a dvd or cd in my optical drive (DVD R/W) the whole drive vibrates so hard that I have to clamp it in place with my hand. Sometimes it will not burn the items selected and sometimes it does. I have ourchased a new (used) dvd optical R/W drive and replaced the opiginal one, but it does the same thing. The drive feels as though it is a sloppy fit in the bay, but there are no adjustments I can see to make the fit better.
Is this a common issue with the Pavilion G6, Win 7, or is there some software fix?
Thanks for any help.

Nothing to care its normal when writing CD/DVD notebook will rotate Disk with high speed due to this optical drive vibrates while burning files.
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