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sunking101

The drive in my NR21Z spins at a ferocious pace when I'm watching dvds, totally ruining the experience for me. I have to crank the volume right up and even then it doesn't blot-out the noisy drive. When listening to cds it is relatively quiet. I find this whole laptop noisy, the hard drive and the fan but is there anything I can do about the noisy dvd drive?

sonypass33

If you use Nero there's an option to control the drive speed which would fix this.
I'm sure there are stand alone freeware apps which do the same, try google.

tonyfly

hello, i have your same notebook and your same problem.But i don't have any solution at this problem.i think that is normal for this notebook.Usually i copy the film on hard disk.Is the best solution.

tonyfly

wow!! thanks to P2P2P !!! I have Nero and I have activated this function. And I have solved the problem. :smileygrin: :smileygrin:

sonypass33

No problem, just remember though (it happened to me lol) when transfering stuff to your computer to turn the speed control OFF, otherwise you'll be wondering why is this bloody thing so slow.

sunking101

If you don't have NERO you can download the Toshiba Acoustic Silencer utility from their website (free of charge). I can confirm that this slows the drive down too and works successfully. Result.