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Hi there,
I recently got a year-old, but still shrink-wrapped LITE-ON DVD+-RW/+-R drive as a gift, slapped it in my XP SP2 box, and discovered that while I'm a whiz with my old CD burner, I'm clueless when it comes to burning DVD's.
The first thing I did was read up some on what free tools were available, and downloaded DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink, and microsoft's ISO mounting tool. I then used decrypter to rip the DVD I wanted to back up, and used shrink to generate a resized ISO for burning. Mounted as a virtual drive, the movie on the ISO played fine. I then used Decrypter to burn the ISO to DVD. The resulting DVD worked a little, but playback froze 15 minutes in, and never returned, on both my PC DVD ROM and my DVD player.
On the advice of an article I found online, I installed ASPI to try to make things better. Instead, things got worse. Now when I use Decrypter to burn the ISO to DVD, the resulting disc is not even recognized as DVD media by the drive that burned it moments after the burn completes.
Desperate to see if my hacking had done any real damage, I tried to use the software that came with my drive to make a simple data disc with a few files on it. Again, the resulting disc is not even recognized as DVD media by the drive that burned it moments after the burn completes.
Arrgh! What have I done? Can I even BE helped?
This unaccustomed newb is desperate...
Extra Data: The ripping and burning processes generated no errors I am aware of. My data burning software is Sonic RecordNow DX. I'm sure there's 30 things I'll get yelled at for not providing, but this is all I can think of ATM...
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. March 2005 @ 18:42
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