Posted by Rick Merrill on 09/21/05 20:36

Jeff Korn wrote:

> I bought a new, often recommended DVD burner LG GSA-4163B which officially burns DVDs at 8/16x speed and reads at 16x speed.
>
> Now, when I try to copy (under Win2000) a couple of files (<10) from a previously burned DVD (+RW format)
> through WindowsExplorer onto my harddisc it needs approx 35 minutes !!!
>
> Can it be ?
>
> I cannot believe it. Is there a wrong driver (Officially the Win2000 standard driver should be sufficient) ?
> Currently the driver cdrom.inf is resonsible for this device. Isn't there a "dvd.inf" or something similar better suited?
> From where do I get this driver (There was no additonal CD supplied with the hardware)
>
> No other ressource consuming programs are running. The harddisc offers enough free space (>20 GB).
> So what wrong?
>
> Do I have to jumper the DVD in a special way?
> Do I have to setup something in the BIOS?
> Do I have to toggle a special Windows setting?
>
> Jeff
>

Is the DVD finalized? (assume so but had to ask)
Does the DVD appear in 'my computer'?
Are you using a USB2 port? (it's way faster than vanilla USB)

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