My SONY DVD writer is too slow. It takes 40 min to write a DVD at any speed I select using Nero. Why is that?

Question

I have connected another Combo drive to the PC. My PC is Pentium IV with 512 RAM.

Answer 1

check your dvd disks speed and your writing speed

buy any other type of disk

Answer 2

Simply get a faster writer.
If your writer is on a USB connection, I suggest that maybe your USB port is a 1.0 or 1.1 and not a 2.0.
USB standards before 2.0 were pretty slow, so even if you have a 16X writer on it, you are bottlenecked by the USB.
Also, the interface on the external USB box itself may only be 1.0 or 1.1.
If the drive is internal, check in control panel that you have enabled UDMA access mode. Without UDMA enabled...well...same problem as USB1.1...the interface is just too slow itself even if the writer is fast.
Also, don't put the writer on the same IDE cable as the drive that contains your data. That can slow down your writes quite considerably in some systems. If your data is on the primary controller, put the DVD on the secondary controller.
Next time submit more details like the interface you are running on, what model/speed drive you are using, OS being used etc. if you want a more complete answer.

Answer 3

I understand that the DVD writer burns at the same speed at whichever speed u choose.

Its likely that ur problem is one of the following:

= Nero might be defected - try to reinstall it, or download the newer version from http://www.nero.com/nero7/eng/nero7-demo.php


= Maximum Drive speed might be unknows - Run Nero DVD Speed to check the maximum speed of ur DVD-RW


=If ur usin an external USB DVD Burner, then the problem might be in the connection to the computer: check the following:

-USB 1.0 / 1.1 are freakin older and slower means of USB connections, i.e. if one of the components (computer and DVD burner) only supports USB 1.0 or 1.1, then it is a connection error. It is not likely for a P4 not to support USB 2.0. So the connection error is most likely to be with ur DVD Burner compatibility.


=The DVD-Burner has a low maximum speed but the nero doesn't recognize that and traps u by giving u another maximum speed and other unavailable average speeds, while the actual maximum speed is the very low speed that the DVD burner allows

Best Wishes

Answer 4

It depends upon ur OS, RAM, processor N applications that u r running along with nero writing. check ur task manager N keep close while u r writing.U may need check ur cables which u connected to ur dvd writer.

Answer 5

just do not place both drives on a single data cable, and try to use win xp