Burn speed update

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Colin Barnhorst

MS is telling the TechBeta folks that three fourths of all instlallation
errors relating to file copy problems have been traced to burn speed. MS
now recommends 1x or 2x. Please pass this on as appropriate.
 
Good luck in finding any modern dvd burner that supports 1x/2x. The slowest
speed is 4x pretty much. Sure some software can force the slower speeds but
the results can be as bad or worse than burning at say 16x.
 
I'm relaying a message from Paul, honcho of the TechBeta at MS. If 4x is
it, that would be the recommendation.
 
4x is a safe bet as long as the dvd's are reasonable quality. Heh, I'm
finding dvd's are worse than cd's. Least even el cheapo cd's unless totally
useless, can give at least a good burn at slower speeds, but dvd's these
days are up in the air.. whats good for one burner is poor on another and
quality varies from batch to batch. And most people do go for the bargains
when buying blanks. Of course some are trying to burn corrupt downloads, the
ones where download manager kept stopping and starting, dropping
connections, constanly but to be fair that was because the servers were
flooded with downloaders so not really a MS fault.
 
I get interruptions due to Comcast (I keep nagging and they keep admitting
they have a problem), but the FTP client has never given me a bad download
because of that.
 
I agree there are a lot of variables. You should be able to burn fine at 4X
and no slower speed should ever be needed. I believe you get an advantages
with DVD+ format:

Why DVD+R(W) is superior to DVD-R
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/113

Additional hints to help burning:

1) If your burning software has an Iso tab as Nero 6+ and above does use it.
2) Close the burning sessions.
3) Try the tip below:

Get to Device Manager by typing devmgmt.msc in run/win key + pause break or
Rt. click My Computer>Prop>hardware tab>Device Manager if you like 5 steps
instead of one cmd. If you're set to PMI here change to DMO and if set to
DMO change to PMI:

a.. Click the + in front of IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
a.. Double Click the Secondary IDE Controller
a.. Click Advanced Settings
a.. Under Device 1  Next to Transfer Mode choose DMA (or vise versa)
a.. Click OK
a.. Reboot your System

CH
 
I've lost the ability to set the burn speed on my DVD/RW drive. I know I had
it at first, but now there is no place to check or uncheck enabling disk
writing on the properties page of the drive and there is no place where I can
set the speed. Perhaps it happened when I uninstalled Roxio 8, which was
giving me headaches. Is there any registry change I could make to get it
back? If I decide to install another burning application, I'll also need to
turn off the windows native burning, which I can't do at the present. Thanks!
 
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