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problems backing up! PLZ HELP
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Cflax
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31. January 2008 @ 00:10 |
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Ok guys having a bit of a problem. Im burning to an external harddrive. I have been wanting to back up some of my DVD's. I heard that .uif is the best to archive your dvd's because of the space you save. (half of that of .iso) anyways. I use MagicISO to make .uif images on my external, when i mount them in my virtual drive (MagicDisk) it plays the opening MGM title thing with the lion, and then goes to a black screen. I tried exporting the .uif as a .iso and then mounting it. same problem. since im burning to a FAT32 external, DVD decrypter only lets me save as .mds. these image files are large, and also fail to mount. I'm about to go crazy, ive tried so many different things. PLZ someone help me. what is the best format to backup images to an external hard drive that can be mounted and played, and easily be burned?
-Cflax
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31. January 2008 @ 00:20 |
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FAT32 file size limit is 4GB.
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Cflax
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31. January 2008 @ 00:26 |
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thx 4 the nfo but, can u give me any advice, i mean, can i burn to my c drive then copy it over to Fat32?
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31. January 2008 @ 00:36 |
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I don't know how the UIF files work. Can you mount them like a regular ISO?
If it is a compressed format and it cannot be mounted and played like you do with an ISO, then the external would just be used for storage and not playback.
How about you convert those movies to AVI/mpeg4? Even at 1 GB each movie, you can still retain very good quality.
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Cflax
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31. January 2008 @ 00:40 |
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http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-whatuif.htm
that says it can be mounted, im not having luck though. what program would you recommend for converting to .avi or mpeg? I have a program called Fair Use that i think does that. not sure if magicISo does that or not.
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Cflax
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31. January 2008 @ 00:46 |
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or, what do you think about saving as DVD files ( with the Audio, and Video files) then burning those with nero or something? i do believe that those are faily large files though.
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31. January 2008 @ 00:52 |
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Okay, so what is your aim? Do you want to store those movies on the external drive? Or what do you want to do? I am asking because you mention now about burning with nero. In your first post, you said you wanted to archive them, and chose UIF because of reduced size.
A DVD compilation can be on a FAT32 partition in a DVD folder, just not as a single file, an image.
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Cflax
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31. January 2008 @ 00:56 |
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wat i really want to do is be able to store the dvds on the external at low space, be able to watch the dvd on my computer without burning, and burn to dvd. idk if its all possible.
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31. January 2008 @ 09:02 |
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can you change an external drive from fat32 to ntsc, for the image size issue
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31. January 2008 @ 09:08 |
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Well, if mounting the UIF doesn't work, you can always rip the movie to the internal disk, as an ISO, then compress it to a UIF and store it to the external. When you want to burn it or watch it, just decompress it to an ISO to the internal drive, burn the ISO or mount/play it.
I really don't know how you would be able to mount and play an UIF, since is a compressed file.
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Cflax
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3. February 2008 @ 15:45 |
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MagicISO allows you to mount UIF. I believe Daemon tools does too.
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