DVD Burner Reading/Writing slower than when new
 

14. April 2005 @ 11:49
I have a LG GSA4163B burner that has been running extremely slow...
when I first got it 2 months ago, it would read a dvd movie within 20
minutes, and burn a backup within 10 minutes....now, it takes at least an
hour to read, and almost an hour to backup. I use DVD Xcopy
for software. I have cleaned up my hard drive with AdAware, and have
defragmented, but still no improvement. I haven't added any other hardware
or software to my system since having the LG burner installed.
This is my first dvd burner, so I guess I'm a newbie.
What gives? Why the slowdown? Any ideas?
Thanks

Re: DVD Burner Reading/Writing slower than when new
 

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:35:48 -0600, "RZ" <rziol@sasktel.net> wrote:

> 14. April 2005 @ 11:49
> I have a LG GSA4163B burner that has been running extremely slow...
> when I first got it 2 months ago, it would read a dvd movie within 20
>minutes, and burn a backup within 10 minutes....now, it takes at least an
>hour to read, and almost an hour to backup. I use DVD Xcopy
> for software. I have cleaned up my hard drive with AdAware, and have
>defragmented, but still no improvement. I haven't added any other hardware
>or software to my system since having the LG burner installed.
> This is my first dvd burner, so I guess I'm a newbie.
> What gives? Why the slowdown? Any ideas?

Are you sure you aren't re-encoding the movie into some other format?
I takes a lot longer if you aren't doing a mpeg2 backup.


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