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    HP dv6500t DVD/CD to HD speed is slow

    Discussion in 'HP' started by tacoma5050, Aug 30, 2007.

  1. tacoma5050

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    I have a data CD with 400meg of data files on it. I copied all the files from the DVD/CD to my hard drive and it was painfully slow. It took around 15 minutes.

    Does that sound right? Is there a way to improve performance here?

    new HP dv6500t vista home prem

    thanks...
     
    tacoma5050, Aug 30, 2007
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    suland Notebook Evangelist

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    400MB - 15minutes? Looks like your CD or DVD was not recorded correctly.
     
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    Good point, I never thought of that. Let me try coping data off a retail software CD (ie: non-CDR) tonight and see how that goes.

    BTW, although it took 15 mins, the files seemed to all copy over OK.

     
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    Hmm, I just found this note about vista sp1: "... Vista SP1 adds a number of performance improvements as well by increasing the speed of copying and extracting files ..."
    http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_sp1.asp

    If my issue is not related to a porrly recorded CDR or the HP HW or driver, I wonder if sp1 will help.
     
    tacoma5050, Aug 30, 2007
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