How Can I Speed Up The Copying And Burning Process?

The first thing to do is to ensure that your computer is not performing other tasks while attempting to copy or burn a DVD. This is because the process of copying and burning uses a lot of your computer's processing power, and if you take up that processing power running other applications, your DVD copy software will have no choice but to work with the remaining processing power, thus making it function at less than the maximum possible speed. Also, having other applications or programs running in the background could result in your copying or burning process experiencing jitters, which can be very annoying when you are watching a copied DVD.

Another simple method of speeding up the process is to enable DMA mode on your DVD drive. Enabling this mode will allow the process of burning a DVD to proceed much more quickly than if the mode were off. To enable DMA mode, simply access the Windows Control Panel, then follow this path: System/Hardware/Device Manager/ATA ATAPI IDE Controller/Secondary IDE Channel/Advanced Settings. Once there, ensure that the transfer mode for your drive has been set to 'DMA if available'. This will help you increase the overall speed of the copying and burning process.

Some people have separate drives for reading and burning DVD media. This may be because their computers did not come with drives able to burn DVDs, but are only able to read DVDs. Thus they may have had to purchase external DVD writer drives. For people in this situation, you should use the DVD reader drive to read and copy the original DVD, then use the DVD writer drive to burn the copy. This is because most DVD reader drives are able to operate at 16X speed, allowing them to read DVDs relatively quickly. In comparison, most DVD writer drives function at only 2X or 4X speed, making the copying process much slower if you were to use your DVD writer drive.

Of course, one of the simplest but also most expensive ways to increase your copying and burning speeds is to purchase a DVD writer and DVD media that function at higher speeds. Different DVD writer drives function at different speeds, and the fastest DVD writer drives are able to write at speeds of up to 22X. This is extremely fast and will allow you to read and burn your DVDs in no time at all. If you choose to purchase a fast DVD writer drive, however, you also need to be aware that you will have to buy DVD media of compatible speeds in order to make full use of the DVD writer drive's speeds. If you have a DVD writer capable of 22X speeds, but your blank DVDs are only rated for 8X speeds, then the writing process will only proceed at speeds of 8X.

So, in order to get the highest speeds possible, you should purchase both a DVD writer drive and DVD media that are rated for the highest speeds of 22X. With a setup like this, you will never need to worry about spending long hours simply copying and burning your DVD collection anymore.