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Looking for file transfer software OUTSIDE of Windows Explorer
I'm sort of lost here and I don't even know if what I want exists.
I keep my file backups on a spindle of thirty 4.7GB DVD+RW discs, in case I have to grab it if the house catches fire, or my data hard drive blows up, or some similar disaster.
The problem is that whenever I try to read the discs using Windows Explorer in Vista Home Basic, 7 Pro 32-bit or Home 64-bit, file transfer speeds from disc to hard drive drop to as low as 50KB/sec and takes around 3 hours per disc. This is a known bug in the Vista and Win 7 kernel with no fix. When I dual booted XP on this machine, the data transfer of an entire DVD disc would take just ±6 minutes or so. Using Vista or 7, it would take me days to transfer the data. I've already tried other software that operates within Win7 and there is no improvement.
What I'm looking for is hopefully free software that can be burnt to a CD or DVD, start my PC with the disc, take that disc out of the drive, access the optical drives and transfer the data from my DVD backup discs quickly to my choice any of my Win 7 hard drives. I want to totally bypass Windows and Windows Explorer for optical disc -> hard disc file copying.
Any ideas? I'd appreciate them. :)
Last edited by OvenMaster; 24 Nov 2015 at 20:00.