Burn Speed

[nzeaglei]

Hi all, first time to the forum so be gentle!

I am a PSE3 user and have been for a few years....

A new problem cropped up a few months ago in that the possible burn speed of my DVD drive for backup dropped from 4x to 1x, it now says it will take ~4,700 minutes to backup my catalog, obviously far too long.

Anyone experienced this before or have a solution? I am on a laptop so the DVD drive hasnt changed, on XP, havent installed anything new, other programs can burn at higher speeds, so this is infuriating!

Is it possible to just backup the "My Catalog.psa" file and then my photos? Will this maintain all the keywords, collections etc etc??

Regars
Jared

[alanH]

Hi, nzeaglei.

Assming your using win xp, go into device manager and click on IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.
right click on each of the primary and secondary IDE channels in turn and click on properties. then click advance settings,
they should all list the transfer mode as dma, if any say PIo mode delete this channel and reboot.

windows should then reinstall the channel with the correct transfer mode.

regards alan

[JEGavlas]

Are you using the same media you have used in the past? I went through months of agony with failed burns on my DVD. I think one out of seven succeeded. I decided to try DVD+ and now they are working great. The drive was rated DVD-/+ and burns CD- with no problem. Just an idea...

[nzeaglei]

Hi, nzeaglei.

Assming your using win xp, go into device manager and click on IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.
right click on each of the primary and secondary IDE channels in turn and click on properties. then click advance settings,
they should all list the transfer mode as dma, if any say PIo mode delete this channel and reboot.

windows should then reinstall the channel with the correct transfer mode.

regards alan

Thanks for your reply, just back from a few weeks holiday....

Tried this but to no avail, thanks for trying though.

[nzeaglei]

Are you using the same media you have used in the past? I went through months of agony with failed burns on my DVD. I think one out of seven succeeded. I decided to try DVD+ and now they are working great. The drive was rated DVD-/+ and burns CD- with no problem. Just an idea...

This is a good idea, will give it a go trying a different rated type of DVD. thanks