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Thread ID: 143442	2017-01-12 09:14:00	Burning DVD with Imgburn	rumpty (2863)	Press F1

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1430659	2017-01-12 09:14:00	While using Imgburn on W10 to burn a video file to a 4x DVD-RW today, there was an error message that I have never seen before in years of writing data to DVDs - "waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level" At the same time there was more or less continuous activity from the hard drive, and the buffers in Imgburn were far from 100% full, and varying. Had W10 decided to do some serious housekeeping at the time, or is my hard drive failing? Most of the search results on the internet about this refer to WXP and PIO mode for the drive. That doesn't seem relevant here.	rumpty (2863)
1430660	2017-01-12 09:41:00	This is the buffer recovery when things like the drives buffer or your RAM is not able to hold enough to write continuously that it starts to make use of the hard drive which can make things crawl. You actually want the buffer to be full, thats the data being written fast and if that drops you are not getting enough data fed to the buffer quick enough in which your hard drive starts to handle it. You need to see what maybe slowing things down.	Kame (312)
1430661	2017-01-12 17:26:00	Could have been Windows doing the latest updates which has just come through	Lawrence (2987)
1430662	2017-01-13 03:20:00	Could have been Windows doing the latest updates which has just come through No sign of any updating of Windows at the time. I'll check the relevant hard drive with HD tach, or something. It is quite an old 80GB drive.	rumpty (2863)
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