Vista DVD Burning Annoyances
I’ve been managing my family photos on a Windows XP PC because it deals with files copying, etc.) much faster than Windows Vista on a much faster (hardware-wise) PC. However, XP decided it could start to burn a data DVD but couldn’t figure out how to finish it (I let the process go on for 20 minutes before killing the process from Task Manager). So, I copied the photos from the XP PC to the Vista PC using an external drive. I guess don’t burn data DVDs often using Vista because I noticed that it default to burning a Live File System. This may have been marginally ok when using DVD+RW discs was more common than using an external hard drive for read-write external storage, but it makes no sense now. The Life File System is horrendously slow. It would take hours to write even a gig or two. Fortunately, I clicked on the formatting options and saw and chose the Mastered option instead.
The second thing I noticed is that the slowest recording speed setting available is 6x. I generally only burn a couple of backup data DVDs a month (usually just photos). So, I have a bunch of 4x DVD+R discs I was using on my XP PC. Fortunately, I have 16x DVD+R discs too and used those instead. But, I wish a 4x option was available too.
