How long does it take YOUR CD's to load up?

[heron_jownze]

When I put a CD into my 16X DVD drive, and close the tray, it takes anywhere from 12 to 20 seconds to load up.(for the files to appear) That seems kinda slow IMO.

How long does YOURS take to load?

Im wondering if its a problem with mine, or it is normal.

[Batman@]

my cd's take about 4 - 8 seconds depending if its burnt or orginal on my 50 x aopen drive.

[kimber]

on my plextor it takes about 5-6sec,on my sony its longer about 10secs

[john240sx]

4-5 seconds on a 24X10X40X lite-on burner for a full cd. on my generic 56X it would take up to 20 seconds.

[slim_lim]

A good CD will load up as soon as the drive spins up, i.e. 3-4 sec. on my ancient HP8100 burner. A bad quality CD, especially some burned or protected ones, won't be able to be read the 1st time, so the drive has to retry a few times. This can take up as much as 20 seconds, although it's usually about 10.

[Maxvla]

my liteon burner takes about 5 seconds for windows to pop up that auto cd thing.

the 12x toshiba dvd drive takes slightly less.

would this have anything to do with DMA i wonder?

[macklin01]

If you have XP, you might want to turn off some of its autoplay features.

Tweak UI --> My Computer --> Autoplay --> Drives

It might speed up the speed-up time, as it won't be spending time searching through the files trying to decide what kind of CD it is and what to do with it.

-- Paul

[james.miller]

my old 12x dvd drive took around 25-30 secs, only to find out that it then autoruns the cd twice! peice of s**t!

[macklin01]

D'oh! So, did disabling the autorun take care of the problem?

-- Paul

[james.miller]

nope. when i would run the main program (on a magazine coverdisk for example) it still would run it twice!

[macklin01]

Hmmm, that's strange. Which OS?

How long has it been since your last reinstall? (If we're talking MS)

Well, it's 1:00, so I'd better get back to programming. I'll check back later. Good luck!

-- Paul

[james.miller]

it did it on 92, me and xp.i just got rid of it.didnt use it for watchinmg movies anyway, so it didnt get used much. i wont miss it lol

[macklin01]

That's so strange! Well, I'm glad that you solved your problem, though! -- Paul