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When it comes to burning a DVD, it is important to know the type of DVD drive connection you have.  There is no real way to tell by clicking on some check box or window.  You have to open up the computer and look at the back side of the DVD drive..and see if it has a Ribbon cable…or a color coated SATA cable.

The Ribbon cable, or the “IDE” cable reads in data at a slower speed than its new counterpart, the SATA cable. There are also 2 type of references used discussing these 2 types of cabled connections.   Some people may see error or informational messages that display the acronym “IO.”   

IO stands for “Input-Output.”  Simply put, IO is short for generally referring to something putting in, or taking out , data.   There is a  CD drive, and DVD drive, and diskette drive, a thumb drive, even a Hard Drive.

The speeds of these devices can change if they are not set properly.  The speed of a SATA cable is faster than the speed of a Ribbon IDE cable.  So if you have a SATA dvd player…and the setting for its speed is set to IDE….then it will not read as fast. 

Part 3 will show you how to look for and change this setting.

Go on to Part 3