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Do not know actually what type of insight I may provide, but I can tell you that backing up DVDs is certainly not a straight forward task. Why? I can not tell you. One would think that you could just "do it" and one would be wrong. Just because you have a DVD burner, player, and the software doesn't mean one can just make it happen.
There are many extraneous forces at work here. System memory, old burners, burners with outdated firmware, cheap media, burn speed used on the drive etc. Each and all of them have to come together to make the task satisfactory.
Personally, I did not think it was actually something that could be accomplished and was only something in most people's dreams just a while ago. However, I now found the correct combination for me and it works.
While I would not just Willey nilley recommend my solution to everyone, I can tell you that I solved all of my problems without ever really knowing what it was. I was attempting to achieve the illusive DVD backup task on my computer (5 year old gateway with only 256 K of RAM and a DVD burner less than 2 years old) I believed I could overcome any obstacles and in fact I did. My solution? I purchased a brand new powerhouse DELL XPS400 and all of my problems were solved. Perfect backups of all of my purchases. fine indeed.........and NO, I bought the computer because I needed it, not to make backups. I did discover, however, that my problem DVD backups had to be related to one of the items I mentioned at the beginning of this post.
Diverj
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