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I have a couple of questions.
1) The manual to download a driver for usb burners and to
select default driver. default driver does not recognize
my plextor burner. I have been using the mtu driver. I
think I downloaded wrong.
2) This leads to the next question; increasing the read speed.
I have 2-26+ GHz processor and 512 DDR/SDRAM memory,
I would be able to read a cdg faster than 8 minutes. I have
selected the maximum speeds and it still take 8 minutes.
Does the speed increase with the other driver?
3) The manual says that with windows xp you do not have
to de-activated the auto-start program. But, I had to.
I would get driver errors, and there were times when my
computer would just re-boot on its own.