Cd-burner Burning Too Slow?

[DWk]

well does anyone know about udma in xp? thx

DWk

[clocker]

If you are using Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you can verify that the internal hard drives are using DMA by looking at the Properties for the Primary IDE Channel under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller. Under the Advanced setting tab you will either see what DMA mode the drive is using or a statement saying “using DMA mode” if available.

Viola!

[DWk]

kk thx.... i already checked and yes its on dma if available.... so to the next point/issue/problem/reason

my computer is extremely slow lately.... i assume that would be the problem.... but i cant find out wtf it is.... any ideas?

i dont see processes that are takin much % of ram or cpu..... so i guess we could rule that out right away

DWk

[clocker]

Defragged lately?

[DWk]

can a corrupt installation of gfx card drivers be the problem? just wondering....the drivers i had were working fine...but i uninstalled them and installed older ones...and right now im burning a cd very much faster than before.... 2 mins at 74%.... weird....

oh and to answer your question, no i havent defragged...was thinkin of doing so tonite.... bad thing is that i have 2 hdds with 4 partitions in total...so i gotta defrag each alone.... not all together.... is there a way to do them 4 at once? well not at once, but without stopping.... like scheduled or something? thx

DWk

[DWk]

well its burning slow again....

DWk

[DWk]

sry had to bump

[Supernatural]

I have a question. Is your hard drive and CD-Burner on the same IDE port? Having them running on different ports might increase burning speed.


I think Norton Speed Disk will defragment drives in sequence.

[DWk]

nopes they arent on the same IDE...yea i know it oculd increase it....but who knows lol.....

about norton.... bleh one thing is i dont like norton applications.... and second i dont wanna download anything...is there a way to schedule it using windows alone? or maybe a LITTLE application?

[Supernatural]

I guess you can use Task Scheduler to schedule defragmentations.