CD Drive stopped working

"File System" is on the left hand side of the list in the home folder!.

Another thought, did you follow this advice when you created your version of Ubuntu?:

If in doubt, try booting the Ubuntu disk and see if the live disk starts, if it starts okay, then the problem might lie with the way you have installed and/or missing packages.

You can start your currently installed version and open Welcome > Software > Fixes > Resolve broken packages and see if this can fix the problem!. (Are you running 15.10 or the dev version 16.04?).

The other alternative is to start from scratch!.