"mjs" <no@thanks.com> wrote in message
news:u48cVO7oIHA.2636@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I've got relatively current gear (Seagate & WD drives, and a Plextor DVDR
> drive) but I'm finding the 90 minutes it takes to dump the content of a
> DVD onto my HD unnecessarily excessive. Is it supposed to take that long
> to copy 3-4 gigs worth of raw data to a HD? The target drive isn't even
> the one Windows is installed on, which is supposed to help speed-wise.
>
> What could be causing this, and how could I tweak WinXP (fully patched)
> into speeding this up? I've got 4GB of ram (even though 2 are being wasted
> most of the time).
>
> Thanks.

Copying files to the Windows system disk makes no difference when
it comes to speed. Your first step in your trouble-shooting effort should
be to check the Event Viewer. You might find some interesting stuff in
there. Click Start / Run / eventvwr.exe to launch it. If you turn a blank
there, try copying a different DVD.