Optical drive won't take any disks

Good evening! I just got a Pavilion with a Core i5-2450M, on a Win 7 OS. When I tried to create my recovery media, I inserted first a DVD-RW disc and later a regular DVD-R disc on its drive. Both options were suggested by the self-tutoring, step-by-step on screen menu. Unfortunately, neither of the disks were accepted by the optical drive....Finally, I tried to use a 500 GB external HD ("Book") through one one the USB ports. But again, I didn't succeed. Please advice as I am completely confused. Thanks in advance

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