I usually burn with a 24x burner, today things are taking way too long on my pc and I went to fix my windows settings and they are different from what they were. I moved from Windows 98 to Windows XP. For some very odd reason today my "Buffer level"
on Nero and Easy CD Creator is really low. It usually
burns at 100% and today it's burning below 20% which
means that instead of burning a disc in 3-4 mins it is
taking 8-10 mins. I recently upgraded to Windows XP
and the Windows settings are NOTHING like Windows 98.

Here is what I used to do:
Let me see, when you Right-Click on the My Computer
icon then click on Properties, a box will pop up.
Click on the Device Manager Tab, then click on the +
beside 'CDROM'. Left-Click on your CD burner, and then
click on Properties (it's at the bottom of the box, on
the left side). A new box will pop up... click on the
Settings Tab > then click make sure you have a check
mark beside Disconnect and DMA. (The others don't need
check marks.)

Now it is like that but there is NO settings tab that
would show Disconnect and DMA.

It's strange it just started happening today. Any
ideas? Thanks I appreciate it.

I know where to find that dma thingy!! I had the same problem tryin to find it!!

Do this:

Go to control panel ---> administrative tools ---> computer management ---> Device Manager ---> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers

then go to whichever one (primary/secondary IDE channels) the DMA option is in there.

I thin kyou can also get to the device manager by right clicking on my computer like you did. They just stuck it in a different place on XP