If you try to read a damaged disk the system will drop the reader from DMA
mode incrementally downward to PIO mode in trying to read the disk. Then it
will stay there.

To correct this, go to device manager and remove the IDE controller for the
drive in question. Reboot. The IDE port will be found and reinstalled at its
full speed.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Mike Gura" <MikeGura@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:371BD1F1-9BF2-4E58-9757-7E4399F26875@microsoft.com...
>I tried to read a damaged disk in my DVD-ROM drive and I assume it slowed
> down to try to read it better, but now anything I try to read in that
> drive
> is very slow. While my second drive (the burner) is much faster at reading
> When the used to both take the approximate same time. I used to read from
> one
> and burn to the other but it takes too long now. Is there a way to check
> if
> it dropped the default read speed and hasnt restored to max? I found the
> burn
> speed on the burner but nothing for read speed on either?