Transfer of video astoundingly slow to dvd

[J23]

With the beta & RC I was getting transfer speeds burning avi, h.264 etc up to 10mbps. Thinking I had a bad spindle I am just now trying my second back up of some films and what not. Same difference.
I am getting 668 kps max. A transfer of 3.0 GB takes about 4 hours!

Anyone had this issue?
My Inspiron is also having this issue yet my old workhorse Dimension 9700 is fine. In other words both my laptops but not my single Pentium 4 pc.
BTW-I have Pro on my Studio, premium on the inspiron and the RC on the Dimension. Thought that was curious.
Love some feedback on this guys,
thanks,
J

 

[seekermeister]

Since the problem occurs on two different machines, I doubt that it is a problem, but I would run a test with HD Tune on the drives where the data is stored.

 

[J23]

Since the problem occurs on two different machines, I doubt that it is a problem, but I would run a test with HD Tune on the drives where the data is stored.

That seems unlikely but I'll try it. By HD Tune do you mean something outside of the 7 OS applications? My drive is smart enabled & reports via 7 & Belarc as Healthy.

 

[seekermeister]

Here is a link:

HD Tune website

You don't need to buy it, the free version works fine. Smart doesn't report all problems, you need something like this to go deeper.

 

[J23]

Here is a link:

HD Tune website

You don't need to buy it, the free version works fine. Smart doesn't report all problems, you need something like this to go deeper.

Thanks .I'll give it a try. One other thing I've been wondering about that might be corelated is that in the Beta one could choose to make a dvd seen as simply memory via the USB selection before burning. I Loved this feature (but wondered what it would do to the RW disc market.
Has Windows crippled this feature in the final build? That would be a real shame.
Thanks for the assistance,
J

 

[raf051888]

Are you using the same DVDs on both PC?

 

[J23]

Are you using the same DVDs on both PC?

Nope. Differant sets both times. Fujifilm currently (worked great on the beta & rc on BOTH laptops) and memorex. I had no prior experianced with them. They are color coded (my wife bought them so I figured they were the problem. It's bloody strange I tell ya.

 

[raf051888]

It could be the speed on the DVDs. I have a stack of 4x DVDs laying around. I grabbed one by mistake and wondered why it took 2hrs to burn a Windows 7 iso.

 

[J23]

It could be the speed on the DVDs. I have a stack of 4x DVDs laying around. I grabbed one by mistake and wondered why it took 2hrs to burn a Windows 7 iso.

No. They are both 16x

 

[whs]

One other possibility is that your security program does extensive checking during the write. Put the CD burning program on the exclusion list of the security program or make a quick test turning the security program off.

 

[J23]

One other possibility is that your security program does extensive checking during the write. Put the CD burning program on the exclusion list of the security program or make a quick test turning the security program off.

Interesting thought. I'm running MSE and that is a differance from the RC & Beta. I'll give it a try. One would have thought MSE would not be that invasive but we shall see.
Thanks.

 

[J23]

No change. This is <expletive>!

 

[whs]

No change. This is <expletive>!

Hmm, too bad. The thought had occured to me because the same MSE had blocked one of my (really innocent) programs that I had been using for years. Booting that program took 5 minutes, but after I put it on the "Excluded files and locations" list, it loaded instantly.
The only other thing I can suggest is to try using another burning program - e.g. DVD Flick for videos.

 

[J23]

No change. This is <expletive>!

Hmm, too bad. The thought had occured to me because the same MSE had blocked one of my (really innocent) programs that I had been using for years. Booting that program took 5 minutes, but after I put it on the "Excluded files and locations" list, it loaded instantly.
The only other thing I can suggest is to try using another burning program - e.g. DVD Flick for videos.

To update you I was burning a disc @ the time I turned MSE off so perhaps it's possible that your idea would work once the burn is done. I do not want to lose anymore discs so I am letting this one finish then I will try that and run the HD Tune tool Seeker gave me & let you know.
A few other things that bother me that you might know of is : What happened to the burn disc as usb media? I asked this earlier in the thread but it warrants repeating. In 7 Beta and RC I could (but only using 7 64bit) use a dvdr as I would a dvdrw. I did this a lot. Great feature. Do you know if MS crippled this in the final build?

Oh re your DVD Flick it looks the same as imgburner (which I have used & loved in the past ) plus thing is I dont care if these discs play on a dvd player or console. I just want them backed up for myself. For my network.
lol. Sorry that was a lot. Answer anytime .
Thanks for listening,
J

 

[whs]

A few other things that bother me that you might know of is : What happened to the burn disc as usb media? I asked this earlier in the thread but it warrants repeating. In 7 Beta and RC I could (but only using 7 64bit) use a dvdr as I would a dvdrw. I did this a lot. Great feature. Do you know if MS crippled this in the final build?

Sorry, but I have no clue. I hardly ever use DVDs except for the recovery program of the imaging programs (Macrium and Ghost). I backup everything to one of my 6 external disks.

 

[J23]

Sorry, but I have no clue. I hardly ever use DVDs except for the recovery program of the imaging programs (Macrium and Ghost). I backup everything to one of my 6 external disks.[/QUOTE]

I hear ya. My seagate external just went down thus the disc b/u FTR-Mse did not solve the issue on either laptops. This is really strange. Think I shall grab a drink or 3 & open a new thread re the usb q. Have a good one.
Regards,
J

 

[whs]

no problem. Sorry I was not able to unravel this on