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March 15th, 2007 20:00

Slow DVD Burner

Hi
 
Since i reformatted my harddrive and reinstalled Windows (XP Pro), my DVD burner has been running EXTREMELY slow.  Like, 2 hours to burn a dvd!  I'm using Nero 6 and when i start it up it gives me a msg about needing to enable DMA support for the drive.  There's the option to use Nero's built in utility to do this but when i do it makes no difference and next time i run Nero it gives me the same message about needing to enable DMA support.
 
Does anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this up?  Is the slow burning because of the DMA support thing or is it something else?
 
Thanks in advance!
-Megan
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    Posted March 16th, 2007 11:00

    When you installed the operating system, did you also install the Chipset?
     
    If the drive is in PIO mode and not DMA mode, burning will be slow
    due to slow data transfer.  You can check it by looking in the
    Device Manager. 

    Start | Control Panel | System in classic view | Hardware tab | Device Manager

    Click on the (+) next to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.  Right-click the channel of
    the drive and select Properties.  Select the Advanced Settings tab.  Here is
    where you see if the drive is in DMA mode.  If not in DMA mode, change it.

    If it reverts to PIO mode, review this article ............


    Message Edited by Skybird on 03-16-2007 06:18 AM
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    Posted March 18th, 2007 13:00

    hi
     
    thanks for helping me out!
     
    question: i have 2 channels listed, a primary and a secondary.  how do i know which one is for my DVD burner?
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    Posted March 18th, 2007 17:00

    You did not state the model of computer, but if you have both
    a Primary and Secondary channel, the optical drive will be
    on the Secondary channel.
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    Posted March 20th, 2007 12:00

    I tried out running the script in that initial post of yours and it worked.
     
    Thanks for your help!

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