"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).

Let's just clear something up. Are you saying you're having trouble copying
_data_, in other word dragging and dropping files, or are you importing DVD
film into something? Because the time would be about right for the latter.
For the former, I'd agree with Pegasus.

And there is also something wrong with your time setting. I'm sitting here
reading this in the UK, it's currently 3.58 PM and your most recent post on
this thread is showing as being made at 4.28PM.