gadgarra

Thanks for the suggestions. I have uninstalled the IDE controller and done a partial disc defrag. This has certainly helped. I created an image file with an average read rate of 3.8X, compared with 2.1X yesterday. I then did a test burn with an average write rate of 2.3X compared with 1.3X yesterday. I still got "Waiting for buffers to recover" warnings. I think I need to re-run the disc defrag. I let it run overnight, but it did not complete. In fact it seemed to have more or less stopped running during a "compacting" phase. I will re-run it tonight. Thanks again for the help.

I have just purchased and installed an LG model GSA-H55N DVD writer on my 6 year old Windows XP desktop. I have successfully created an image file from disc (DVD-RW) and then written an image file to disc (DVD-R) using ImgBurn. However, both processes ran very slowly. When doing the write, I noticed that the buffer (not the device buffer) frequently ran down to zero and the system had to wait for the buffer to refill before continuing to write. Here is the log for the read: I 07:13:58 ImgBurn Version 2.4.0.0 started! I 07:13:58 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 07:13:58 Total Physical Memory: 785,904 KB - Available: 281,616 KB W 07:13:58 Drive C:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 07:13:59 Initialising SPTI... I 07:13:59 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 07:13:59 Found 1 CD-RW and 1 DVD