What is your definition of "burning out"? Can you see physical damage to the capacitor? Did you test it with an ohmeter?
Testing a capacitor with a multimeter is easy: Disconnect at least one lead of the capacitor. Put the meter on the "ohms" scale, and connect the meter leads to the capacitor. The resistance reading should initially be a dead short (zero ohms), then it will quickly rise to infinity (overrange). Reverse the meter leads and you'll briefly see a NEGATIVE resistance, then it will rise again to infinity.
If you don't see this behavior, the capacitor is either open or shorted. Otherwise the capacitor is fine and you need to look elsewhere.
Note that capacitors have a very wide tolerance and can change value over time. So it's possible that changing the capacitor would cause the motor to briefly work, even if the capacitor was not the root cause of your problem.
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