Problem copying pictures off DVD...

[impmon2]

I have a DVD with over 1400 pictures from 3 different digital cameras. When I tried to copy them, my computer slowed to a crawl and it was taking me over 5 minutes to open a new browser window. When I checked the copy process, I was floored:


Almost 3 ^$%# days to copy a bunch of pictures??!?!? I aborted it, tried it on my parent's PC with no trouble (12 minutes to copy all), and sent it to my PC over network. When I tried copying again on my PC, once again PC crawled for no reason and I'm getting 2 days + again. Other DVD discs (all in same batch) I burned with pictures went through fine, so I doubt it's my drive causing problem. Since it was copied just fine on other PC, I doubt it'd the media itself.

Yes the drive is in DMA mode not PIO mode.
AMD2 5000+, 3GB RAM (6GB page file max), Vista 64 bits premium, tried copying after I exited out unneeded background processes.
Task Manager was showing 0% on both CPU core when idling, never more than 2% at most when copying from other discs, and 100% when it tried to copy from the same problem disc.

Any idea why just one disc is causing problem copying on my PC but copies fine on other PC? I made a new backup just in case as my master backup (external 160GB USB drive) is sitting at bank's safe deposit box.

[Dv8ted2]

Do you have SP1 installed?

If so, copy only a little bit at a time.

[impmon2]

Well yeah it has SP1 installed. Auto update on and always up to date with Microsoft.

[Dv8ted2]

Split up the copying - Do a little at a time

[impmon2]

That worked. Still doesn't explain why one disc causes my PC to crawl while other DVD of pictures are copied fine.

[jagabo]

That disc is going bad. You're computer is having problems reading it. Different drives can have more or fewer problems reading it. Windows retries many times when it finds a bad block. Windows Explorer isn't well multithreaded in these situations. That's why Windows comes to a crawl.

[lordsmurf]

Copy the disc to ISO with ISO Puzzle. Go back, load ISO with DaemonTools, then mount virtual DVD drive, copy from that to hard drive.

[Bjs]

No ... This is a common issue.

To transfer faster and without explorer getting in the way use something like recoverytoolbox