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Strange Error Message-Please Help
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AngelFan
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1. November 2005 @ 11:16 |
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I am gonna disconnect it in a few minutes and see what happens..once I get the movie onto the hard drive I am gonna disconnect the drive that no longer works..after that..do I just open shrink to burn the movie or do I have to use something else
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AngelFan
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1. November 2005 @ 11:25 |
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I have a question..I have a laptop that has a CD-RW/DVD combo drive..can I hook up my external dvd burner to that and burn movies? I wouldnt have to get rid of my internal drive right?
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Car.Mike
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1. November 2005 @ 13:28 |
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AngelFan,
You can use a laptop although they really get hot and you will need a cool-pad. Make sure the usb is 2.0. Most laptop HD's are 5400 rpm unless yours is one of the newer ones. You transcoding and ripping and writing will be slower
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AngelFan
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1. November 2005 @ 14:13 |
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yeah I am using a laptop now..it is going SUPER fast cause it was 2.0 USB and the one on my regular computer is 1.1 so it would go slower..turns out the reason why the DVD was not encoding properly is cause something is wrong with the actual dvd..cause it does the same thing on my laptop too and there is no conflict there..so what I am doing is just encoding the actual movie(doing re-author) I Guess its just a bad dvd..and I reformatted for nothing..oh well..I learned my lesson
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1. November 2005 @ 14:25 |
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You can say it's just the DVD all you want but if you don't dissconnect that drive I can gaurantee that you will have more probs in the future.
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AngelFan
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1. November 2005 @ 14:53 |
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The problem has been fixed..I now use my laptop to burn the DVD..I should never have reformatted but I learned my lesson..the laptop is sooooooooooo much quicker I should have thought about using that from the beginning..thanks everyone for your help
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1. November 2005 @ 14:57 |
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Usually a regular PC is better for ripping than a laptop, unless you have a top of teh line laptop, try dissconnecting that drive and burning w/ the comp.
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1. November 2005 @ 15:05 |
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My desktop is a Vaio P4 2.4 that is about 3 yeats old...my laptop is an HP with an AMD Athlon64 3200+(a much faster processor) that is 3 months old. It takes about 20 minutes longer to do a movie with the laptop than the desktop. I only use the laptop when I'm at work. LOL
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1. November 2005 @ 15:13 |
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How can you burn a dvd while you're driving a train, don't you have to shovel coal into the engine... Well your train looks pretty new, maybe it doesn't need coal. :)
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1. November 2005 @ 15:28 |
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deisel-electric...and I don't usually use the laptop on the train, but when I work as Yardmaster(thats an impressive title isn't it?).
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1. November 2005 @ 15:33 |
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Do you own it? You talk about it with somewhat of a passion, or is that just something that happens when you have the same train for a long time, like how police officers talk about there cruiser.
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1. November 2005 @ 21:48 |
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@AngelFan - i give up. i can't force you to fix the PC but 'afraid i'm gonna have to avoid helping you on any further threads as you've ignored my help (your choice and that's fine) but what's annoying is that you'd rather claim the dvd is at fault than fix a basic problem that is gonna permanently cause you problems.
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AngelFan
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1. November 2005 @ 22:05 |
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Creaky..Thank you for your help..I got a friend of mine to come over and disconnect the bad drive from the computer(Since I didnt want to take a chance at doing it myself) and I installed the DVD-RW drive..now things are working smoothing..its slower then the laptop due to it being USB 1.1 instead of 2.0 but its at least now on my PC which is the way I wanted it to be
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1. November 2005 @ 22:11 |
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in which case you're back on my christmas card list :) :)
good luck and happy burning
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2. November 2005 @ 14:12 |
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Why won't don't you just (or have that friend) install the drive in teh comp seeing as how you have a usb1. But...if you still have a usb 1 then you comp must be fairly old, which probably means that you have very little ram and have little HD space. i'm a little conflicted.
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AngelFan
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2. November 2005 @ 15:10 |
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My desktop PC is 2 years old..has an 80 gig hard drive and 512mb sd ram..but it does have USB 1.1..The Laptop is only about 3 months old..has USB 2.0 and is a Dell Centrino..80 gig hard drive. the issue has been resolved..I have no more problems burning dvd movies..sure its slower but I dont mind.as long as it works I am happy
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2. November 2005 @ 15:48 |
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That's funny I thought that all comps in the last 3 years had usb2. Well 521mb of ram is usually teh recommended memory for DVD ripping, and 80bg for a HD is alright if you don't plan on saving all the movies you burn on you HD. I digrest. Sorry.
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