DVD Drive is ripping so slooowww?

[peggypwr1]

Hello, before I installed a new hard drive my LG 4167B burner would backup a movie with CloneDVD in about 20-50 minutes. After installing my new HD and and drivers the burner is ripping slow. Movies being backed up now tack 100 mintues. DMA is enabled. What is wrong? I am using Windows 2000 Pro, the new HD is a Western Digital 320GB.

[Dubber]

What drivers did you have to install for the HDD?
Also, are them LG and WD on the same IDE channel? Is WD a SATA drive?
Try uninstalling drivers you installed for your WD HDD.

[budz]

if your new WD hard drive is connected to the same ide channel as your LG dvd burner that could slow down the transfer spd on the new hd. try attaching the LG dvd burner on a different ide channel.

[peggypwr1]

Thanks for the replies. When I installed my WD hard drive, I ran Data Life gaurd tools that came with the HD and formatted it with that software. Then I installedWindows 2000. I don;t think I installed any drivers for the Hard disk, my Bios picked it up. The new HD is the master and the salves is now my old WD 80 gig drive. My DVD burner has its own ribbon and does not share it with the hard drive. Uh, and thats about what I know. Is there anyway I can check to see if the HD and DVD burner are conflicitng? All my Hard drives are EIDE not SATA.

[peggypwr1]

Oh!, the DVD burner shares the ribbion with my older Sony CD burner drive.

[budz]

buy a new ide cable for your LG dvd burner and see if that helps. your dvd burner may just be on it's way of failing.

[oldandinthe way]

Any difference in the sounds your system makes while copying the DVDs?

Any change in the media you use?

Does CloneDVD show you the read transfer rate as well as what it is using as write speed? Has the read speed or write speed changed?

It would be helpful to know if the problem is lengthing of the read (rip) phase or lengthening of the write.

Lengthening of the read could be a function of the media the movies you are copying is on. There are disks which my LG4163 reads at 2,220 kbps and others it reads at over 7,000 kbps. Rip times vary. If you hear strange noises during the read, it may be that the disk is damaged, or dirty or your drive is dirty. It is a good practice to clean borrowed DVDs you are copying. I am also a believer in cleaning my drive when the normal rhythm of copying is altered. It works.

[jman98]

I understand that peggypwr1 is running Windows 2000. I just want to point out that Windows XP has a nasty "feature" on IDE chains where the slave device may get set to PIO mode because of a ridiculously short timeout period in the OS. Windows 2000 might be doing the same thing. Be sure that neither the drive you are ripping to nor the DVD drive you are reading from are set to PIO mode as that will cause this kind of slowness. I have only heard of this happening for slave devices, so if your devices are masters, this probably isn't your problem.

[oldandinthe way]

It also happens to masters when reading a a DVD with errors.