How to Enable Write Caching on the CD Driver

If you plan to use your CD drive to burn disks you will probably want to enable write caching on your driver. By enabling write caching you will increase the speed and functionality of your system. When you send information to the disk drive to be burned with write caching enabled your system will automatically notify the server that the disk has already been written (even though the operation has not really been performed yet). The information will be stored in the cache until the disk is in the drive and actually ready to burn. This is helpful because it allows your system to continue handling other tasks and running other processes instead of being stalled with a long converting and burning process.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Click on the “My Computer” icon. Under the heading “Devices with Removable Storage," right-click on “CD Drive” or “D:” drive.
2. Choose “Properties” from the drop-down list of options.
3. Select the “Hardware” tab at the top of the System Properties window.
4. Click on the “Device Manager” tab. Choose “disk drives” from the list of devices. The brand name of your disk drive should appear. Click on it.
5. Select the “Policies” tab at the top of the properties window. Check the box next to “Enable write caching on the disk.”
6. Click “OK”. Now you are finished and may close all the open windows.

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