Is your Hard Disk, CD/DVD Drives too slow while Copying

Almost every Hard Disks and CD/DVD drives support Ultra DMA Mode (Faster Copying Mode) and PIO (Slower Copying Mode). Although Ultra DMA Mode is enabled by Default Windows Installation by some times it is not the case. Or it can happen that the Ultra DMA Mode of a device switches to PIO Mode without any reason.

Now I tell you how to allow faster copying by setting Transfer Mode to Ultra DMA. Set all your Hard Disk and CD/DVD ROM or Writer Drives to Ultra DMA Mode. This tweak also enables fast CD/DVD Burning.

For Windows 2000/XP Users

Click on Start button then Open up the Properties of My Computer, on the Hardware tab click Device Manager. Expand IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, Doube Click Primary IDE Channel (Here two Primary IDE Channel are shown may be you have only one).

Is your Hard Disk, CD/DVD Drives too slow while Copying

Note: Device 0 or Device 1, is translated as master or slave drive respectively). In the properties where no device is detected the field selection is grayed out, leave that field without any change.

When Properties Open Up select Advanced Settings tab, In the Transfer Mode Field select DMA if available (if DMA if available is already selected but in Current Transfer Mode PIO is showing then select PIO only in Transfer Mode then reseclect DMA if available ).

Repeat the steps above for other Primary IDE Channel (if available) and Secondary IDE Channel

Is your Hard Disk, CD/DVD Drives too slow while Copying
It may be that your hard drive’s has a lower DMA than that shown here.
CD/DVD Drives support upto Ultra DMA 2


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5 Comments to “Is your Hard Disk, CD/DVD Drives too slow while Copying”

  1. Nima says:
    August 4, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    thanks
    it caused better performance

  2. ned says:
    August 8, 2007 at 3:23 am

    I’ve done this. My dvd/cdrw teac dw224ea supports ultra dma 2, but shows up as dma in win 2000. DMA if available is selected. Any ideas?

  3. Tim kutil Taylor says:
    October 18, 2007 at 2:37 am

    Great! It did help me. Thank you very much!

  4. Sam Hobbs simplesamples.info says:
    December 19, 2007 at 10:27 pm

    Anyone encountering this problem should search for answers. For example as search such as:

    http://search.technet.microsof.....lang=en-us

    The following are a couple of articles I found:

    Device settings are hard to find in Windows XP
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310751

    IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472

  5. Is your Hard Disk, CD/DVD Drives too slow while Copying « Techno Digits says:
    February 18, 2008 at 10:18 pm

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