CD slows down during copy

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My CD drive keeps slowing down its revolutions when I am coping data to a
file. The indicators, of whatever I am coping, begin to rise up. It says 3
minutes to go and then the CD stops whining and the indicator will read 4
minutes to go... 5 minutes.. and so on. And the copy process seems much
slower. Hard ware? Software or they just do this? Thank you.
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Ed H
Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP1
60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

 

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Try making sure the CD is clean and try cleaning the drive with a
cleaner kit. What happens is if there are scratches or the CD is dirty,
the CD ROM drive will have a hard time reading the pits/dye on the CD.
This is not likely to be a problem of Windows, but a problem first of
the CD, then of the CD ROM Drive

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Nathan McNulty


Ed H wrote:
> My CD drive keeps slowing down its revolutions when I am coping data to a
> file. The indicators, of whatever I am coping, begin to rise up. It says 3
> minutes to go and then the CD stops whining and the indicator will read 4
> minutes to go... 5 minutes.. and so on. And the copy process seems much
> slower. Hard ware? Software or they just do this? Thank you.