Im trying to burn stuff buy my the laptop just slow now. I suspect its the PIO and DMA mode but the problem is on laptops this IDE setting must be named diffrently because i cant figure out which drive the dvd drive is running off of.
just uninstall the IDE controllers in device mamnger reboot and they will reinstall . then you should be back in DMA mode or heres a guide http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/260038