im kinda a newbie about burning dvd's, i have burned a data dvd and burned a regular dvd, and both work in my dvd player for my tv, what is the difference between a data or a regular burned dvd? is there any qaulity difference or long run problems of either? which is better? because the data takes about 2 min to finish, and the burn takes about 3 hours to do
a DVD burn that takes 3 hours tells me that your dvd burner is in PIO mode it should be in DMA mode open up device manager and double click on the drive that will tell you if it is in PIO mode if it is deleate your secondary ide controller then reboot your computer and windows will reinstall the controller and the drive will return to DMA mode
both drives are in dma mode, but my dvd burner is an external sony burner that plugs into my usb port that i just bought, does anyone know how to see if that external drive is in dma mode?
i dont know, i have 2 usb's in the back, and 2 in the front, i connected the external dvd drive to the usb port in the back? should i try switching it to the other port in the back?
open up device manager and scroll down until you find USB Hub double click on it and if you see Enhanced usb 2 you have usb 2 if not you will need to get a usb 2 card for your computer usb 1 is very slow transfering data
go to control panel and click on systems click on hardware tab box will come up then click on device manager
it is turned on. i do not undertand why it takes 3 hours to rip and burn a dvd what type of burner are you using who made the unit and what type of blank media are you using
i have a brand new sony dvd/cd external rewriteable drive, and i am using verbatim -rw disks, when i download a movie from the internet, i go on nero 6, go to make dvd, then add files, and add the movie, then when i burn it, it shows the process, and it takes about 3 hours every time, when i just copy a dvd, i use dvd shrink and it takes about 20 minutes to back up and burn it, but dvd shrink doesnt work when i download a movie from the internet
also david, when i downloaded king kong the movie, it downloaded as a bin and cue file, and nero or dvd shrink wont burn it, do you know how i can change that?
Then you don't need this thread anymore? http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/319162 Please don't multi or crosspost your problems, it confuses the ppl trying to help you.
crazyantt Since you can't seem to decide on a single thread I'll do it for you. Here's the one, http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/319275 I understand your enthusiasm for getting help but I need to ask you to please stick to the thread I just linked to in order to keep our forums from getting any more cluttered than they already are and to also keep the confusion down for those trying to help you. Hope you get your problem fixed
