Any way to lower CD read speed?

[TheCDBurner]

Hi all, I've got a CD-R sitting here that was burned with a POS buner (ie, Optorite DD0401) and am having trouble reading back the disc.

Any util's that can set the CD read speed to a lower value, hopefully then I'll be able to copy the disc.

My CD-R software is CopyToDVD (which has BlindWrite, but I don't see anything that can cap BW's read speed).

I know Nero 6 has a feature to do this, but I don't have Nero 6 (nor do I want it; it's as buggy as Windows). Any freeware apps I'm missing?

[dhc014]

I listed all of the ways that I know of here: Speed Control Utilities

You can try Nero DriveSpeed or CDBremse if there is no utility intended for your drive from the manufacturer.

[TheCDBurner]

Ah! Cool, thanks!

I was just on the CD Speed page and didn't even see DriveSpeed; I thought that was just part of Nero 6!

Weird; UltraISO made a CD image of it perfectly. Now too see if the data's ok (it skips bad sectors, sorta like CloneCD).

[TheCDBurner]

Wow.

The UltraISO image WAS perfect, no speed cap needed. Sigh...I hate computers....

[OptoRite]

Hi TheCDBurner,

If you are having problems with the burner, OptoRite can replace it as it is still under warranty. If you would like to replace it, please contact me at support@optorite.com.

Thank you,
OptoRite Support

[TheCDBurner]

The problem is the burners write quality, or lack there of. Unless you've got the burner to actually write CDs and DVDs WELL, I'll stick to using my Lite-On and NEC drives.