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Originally Posted by kill_them_all1000

I think your drive is in PIO.
Right click on My Computer -> Properties -> Hardware -> Device manager -> IDE ATA... -> Primary/secondary (check all 4)-> properties -> Advanced settings -> there should be on DMA (if its in PIO put it on DMA then reboot)

See also the bios settings if this will not work.

You're a saviour

I never really understood the difference between PIO & DMA, following your advice I did it and the setting was under PIO, so I switched it back to DMA, booted and burned a DVD, but nothing really changed.

Then I went to the cdfreaks forum, made a thread, looked for some info and came up with this:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/1712827-post3.html

Executed the script, booted again, burned a disc... Took 5 minutes

So everything is back to normal now. The things that you learn every day

Thanks to all for any input they gave to the subject