Drive suddenly ripping VERY SLOW

[Cynical1]

Every once in a while my DVD drive starts operating slowly. That is playback is choppy, burning is slow, ripping is slow, even when I run CDSpeed it reads slowly. Last time I fixed this with a system restore, but there has to be an easier way. Help please. Thanks

[setarip_old]

Hi!

It's probably dropped out of DMA mode. If so:

In the Device Manager (via the Control Panel>>System>>Hardware>>Device Manager), you simply have to remove the applicable IDE channel (Click on "IDE...Controllers") and let your computer reset it to DMA as follows:
Right click on the pertinent channel in Device Manager
Click on uninstall
Reboot
After rebooting go back to Device Manager and change the setting to "DMA if available"...

[Cynical1]

Thank you. works fine.

[setarip_old]

Thank you. works fine.You're quite welcome ;>}