Well first off im not new at backing up DVD's been doing it for awhile using Slysoft's AnyDVD and CloneDVD2 but I need a a few problems addressed. First off it takes my PC forever and a day to actually copy a DVD using CloneDVD about 2hrs to take the audio/video material from the disk then another 2hrs to burn it to a blank DVD the only conclusion I can come to is because my PC is about 4 yrs old. My PC specs are as follows Windowns ME, 800MGZ, 256RAM, and 80 GB HD. I know my buddy at the university I attend had a laptop with Windows XP, 1.8 GHZ, 512RAM, 160GB HD and his would copy everything in about 15 mins. Lastly im attempting to backup a DVD now using CloneDVD2 and everything goes fine until the scan hits a certain sector and the progress stops there and never goes any farther. I checked the back of the DVD and I see about 2 deep scratches and this is the only thing I can figure is stopping the copy because I put in another DVD to see if maybe the DVD burner was going bad on me and everything went fine.
From your message (see below) it sounds like your doing other things while your burning . . . you shouldnt be doing anything else while your burning a DVD and you should try and close any unneeded programs that are running in your system tray.
SLOW RIPS,Could be in PIO mode, READ HERE Go to My Computer Control Panel System Hardware Device Manager IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Open the installed IDE channels (Primary and Secondary) Click on Advanced settings You will see the transfer mode. Change it to DMA if available. If any are PIO or stepdown dma you need to un-install the channel (right click on the channel and choose uninstall) and re-boot. Windows will reinstall the device and return it to DMA mode. Be careful when using this procedure because if you have an older hard drive or storage device that does not support DMA you could corrupt your data. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472 NOTE IT CAN SAY DMA MODE BUT CAN BE IN PIO MODE After the Windows IDE/ATAPI Port driver (Atapi.sys) receives a cumulative total of six time-out or cyclical redundancy check (CRC) errors, the driver reduces the communications speed (the transfer mode) from the highest Direct Memory Access (DMA) mode to lower DMA modes in steps. If the driver continues to receive time-out or CRC errors, the driver eventually reduces the transfer mode to the slowest mode (PIO mode).. -- What is DMA mode? DMA (Direct memory access) mode is a high performance mode for transferring data to and from devices, in particular, to CD and DVD burner devices. The burner devices can function in either DMA or PIO modes. DMA mode allows the processor to transfer large pieces of data with very little software overhead - therefore requiring low CPU utilization. In this mode, high speed burning can be performed in background with other programs running. PIO mode requires CPU processing for every few bytes sent to the device, so that CPU utilization becomes very high when trying to burn at high speeds. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 817472 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472
