So I just bought a laptop, an HPzx5190us, has been running great, and I've been backing up my DVD's with it. The first 2 worked great, then I transfered my mp3 files on DVD and it worked fine for about the first 3 DVD's I used (dvd+r) the 4th mp3 disc i transfered kept running into a few cycle redundancy errors but I don't think that has anything to do with it. So anyways my actual problem, when I encode the DVD movie I want to backup, it runs at a disapointing 1900 kb/s and when I first used my DVD drive, it ran upwards of 4000 kb/s. What would be the cause of this decreased performance? my drive is a TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-R6252
Hi, If your drive ran into a bunch of CRC's when doing the MP3 discs Windows may very well have kicked the transfer speed down to PIO. Try this: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx If that doesn't work you can try these steps: Go to Device Manager > Expand the tree for Disk Drives > Find the drive in question, right click it and go to Properties > Under the Driver tab, select Uninstall then OK. Now reboot and Windows should detect and reinstall the drive. Let us know if this helps
thanks a bunch, that pretty much got me on the right track, i had to uninstall the drive and also uninstall the secondary IDE , then reboot and now it is back to normal top notch encoding
