dino167

Thanks for the reply. I've come to the same conclusion - I already have one external to hold my music so I'll probably just pick up another or just drop a bigger HD (or two) in the computer itself. It is amazing on how cheap they are these days. Thanks again for the help.

Shamus - you were right on about the IDE channels, both DVD drives were on the same one so I corrected that. At first it seemed like that was going to work perfectly, but after the speed was just about ramped up the buffers dropped to 0% and the log showed the familiar: W 00:43:24 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 00:43:25 Writing Image... W 00:43:47 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 00:43:57 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 00:43:58 Writing Image... W 00:44:20 Waiting for buffers to recover... that I've seen posted. But since I'm going from DVD to DVD is there really a problem with the HD activity? Could it be the way I have everything connected now? The burner is alone on the secondary channel and the primary channel has the HD as master and the reading DVD-rom as slave. Perhaps switching the HD & DVD-rom could help? I also uninstalled the IDE controllers to make sure I'm on DMA. Any thoughts? Thanks for the help.

Hello - I've tried searching for this first but didn't see a topic on this so here goes... I run ImgBurn just fine and seem to get best results for my DVD players burning at 8x on my Sony dru-710a. These usually take about 8 minutes if I recall. Now all of the DVDs I've made for my kids are the movies only - no extras, no menus, so they can get them to play without help. I've saved the .iso files on DVDs so that I can make new copies as the old ones get scratched or broken. Copying the .iso from a DVD to my HD takes about 10 minutes so I decided to try adding an older DVD-rom drive to burn direct without transfering the .iso first, but the burn ends up taking about 25 minutes - longer than the old way. My question is would anything help make this faster? The reading DVD-rom is 16x, I have 1Gb of memory, and a 3.0Ghz Intel chip. Any suggestions would be appreciated.