SLOW ass DVD read speed

[darxide]

So I have this full spindle of DVD-Rs that I have used over the last couple years to burn backups to. I have recently decided to move them to an external hard drive but my DVD drive is acting slow as balls.

When I first put the disc in, it takes several minutes to mount the volume and another several minutes to even start the copy once I hit paste. It sits at "Detecting" for a while. Once it finally starts, it's copying at 600 KB/s - 1.1 MB/s. With a little over 3000 items on the disc using 4 Gigs of space it's estimating 2 1/2 hours to copy the entire contents.

Some info:
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit
The drive in question is an LG GH22NP20 - http://www.lg.com/us/support-product/lg-GH22NP20
The drive should transfer at 16x
The drive is a PATA drive, it's the only PATA device in my system and the jumper is set to Master.
Motherboard is an old Foxconn A79A-S

I just formatted and did a fresh install of Win7 last week and the drive seemed just fine during the install. It seemed to install at a normal speed.

I've been up and down Google on this but there are a thousand and one answers for "slow dvd transfer speed" and other related searches and 95% of them I can already see are irrelevant before I even click on them.


I'd appreciate some help.
Thanks

[vesseblah]

Either the DVDs are poor quality or your DVD drive is failing. Home-burned CD/DVD isn't really realiable technology. Try with different DVD drive to see if that sorts out the problem.