Help! Burner not performing as it should!

[Pete_88]

Hello all,

 

For the past few weeks I've been attempting to burn off my parents data that they've accrued over the years (160GBs), As I need to reformat their machine. I've got a sound enough knowledge of computing (Programmer/Tech support by trade) but even I'm stumped on this one.

 

The problem is that the DVD-Rewriter is simply not performing upto scratch. It's rated as 16X for DVD-R/RW/DL(+/-) but rarely seems to rise above 8x-9x and sometimes not above 4x (Although on these occasions I had been tinkering with ImgBurn). I'm almost certain that there is a solution to this problem, I just don't have the comprehensive knowledge of Optical drives and disc authoring that perhaps most members who frequent this forum do!

 

I know some might say that the speed isn't horribly slow and therefore acceptable enough for most, But I've got a lot of burning to be doing and want my moneys worth from the hardware! It has no problems reading data, Just burning it slowly.

 

I've made sure DMA is turned on both in BIOS and within XP, And tried clicking on "Reset DMA" in ImgBurn which says "No resettable ATA channels with Windows drivers found". I've also updated the firmware to the latest version and tried playing around with the different interface settings, all to no avail!

 

I've included as much information about this system as I thought necessary, I thank everyone in advance for any help you might be able to give.

 

 

Filter Driver Load Order:

http://pastebin.com/W6NfjqBe

 

 

System Spec':

http://pastebin.com/0rncvgtP

 

 

ImgBurn Log:

http://pastebin.com/EJYgDNNT

Edited March 22, 2012 by Pete_88

[kryten]

Hello all,

 

For the past few weeks I've been attempting to burn off my parents data that they've accrued over the years (160GBs), As I need to reformat their machine. I've got a sound enough knowledge of computing (Programmer/Tech support by trade) but even I'm stumped on this one.

 

The problem is that the DVD-Rewriter is simply not performing upto scratch. It's rated as 16X for DVD-R/RW/DL(+/-) but rarely seems to rise above 8x-9x and sometimes not above 4x (Although on these occasions I had been tinkering with ImgBurn). I'm almost certain that there is a solution to this problem, I just don't have the comprehensive knowledge of Optical drives and disc authoring that perhaps most members who frequent this forum do!

 

I know some might say that the speed isn't horribly slow and therefore acceptable enough for most, But I've got a lot of burning to be doing and want my moneys worth from the hardware! It has no problems reading data, Just burning it slowly.

 

I've made sure DMA is turned on both in BIOS and within XP, And tried clicking on "Reset DMA" in ImgBurn which says "No resettable ATA channels with Windows drivers found". I've also updated the firmware to the latest version and tried playing around with the different interface settings, all to no avail!

 

I've included as much information about this system as I thought necessary, I thank everyone in advance for any help you might be able to give.

 

 

Filter Driver Load Order:

http://pastebin.com/W6NfjqBe

 

 

System Spec':

http://pastebin.com/0rncvgtP

 

 

ImgBurn Log:

http://pastebin.com/EJYgDNNT

 

For that amount of data, save some time and energy and get an external drive to back up their stuff. If you did get it all on DVDs, it would take hours to get it back on there.

 

As for the slow burning, maybe the medium is the problem. Not all work well with all drives.

[Pete_88]

Thanks for replying, I do have three 1TB external drives (All near full capacity), And it seems to be the same irrespective of media. I've been looking a bit deeper and I think it may have something to do with Windows' lack of a DMA controller. At least, It's reporting that no drivers are installed even though it's listed in device manager?

 

Bizarre!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Turn off the 'overspeed' eeprom option and try again.