Over a week ago I was ripping my cds onto my hard drive and the computer had problems with one disk because it was too scratched up. I noticed the next day that my DVD drive was running super slow. It read slow, and wrote slow. WAY slow. I did some digging and found out that sometimes, some kind of channels or something can be reset by reading a scratched disk, so I downloaded this program that resets the DMA status of all ATA drives with windows drivers. I don't really know what that means, but it did the trick. My burner was back up to speed. However, it appears that it's not burning anthing at all. I'm currently backing up some new movies I got, and DVDShrink seems to be backing up the discs fine, but when I burn the disks with DVDecrypter, the discs don't show any sign of use at all. It goes through the normal burning process, but the discs don't work. Looking at them, you can't even see where they've been written on. And when I try to burn a DVD though Windows or Windows Media player, it doesn't recognize blank discs... Is this a software or a hardware issue? Should I have it looked at? I don't know a whole lo about computers, but I'm not totally dumb, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Open Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > System > Hardware tab > Device manager > select the burner > right click on Properties > driver tab > uninstall > reboot. Next time the DMA drops to PIO Open Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > System > Hardware tab > Device manager > select secondary IDE > right click on Properties > Advance settings > Transfer Mode > Change PIO to DMA If you want a shortcut right click on the Desktop > New > select Shortcut. Enter lactation C:\WINDOWS\system32\devmgmt.msc
