copying dvd's

[scotte666]

i have a dvd i ant to copy well 3 actually.ive got a dvd r/w and copyed cd's fine before but when i try to copy these discs it copys it to my harddrive as normal then says insert a blank disc, which i do then after about 10 secs or so it ejects it and says it again.they r brand new dvds i wanna copy to so i know they r blank...any 1 have any ideas??i thought the dvds may be copyrighted???doesnt say anything like that on my laptop tho....im using record now a crappy dvd copyer that came with my laptop.....there any programs i can download and use instead that are alot better?

 

[dk]

the dvd you are copying from is larger than the dvd you are trying to write it onto,you need to shrink the dvd to the size of a DVDr, there are programs to do this and one of them is included in my text.

Ofcourse you are just backing up the dvd you own right?

 

[scotte666]

Ofcourse you are just backing up the dvd you own right?

of course

 

[DamoWales]

Get DVD Decypter n then use that to put it onto the comp,

Then burn using Clone DVD,

Thats wat i do anyway,

takes about 7mins to burn

 

[scotte666]

i have just tried 3 blank dvd's(well my dad gave me them to copy these dvds and said they were blank) but in my computer it says they are 3.90gb but with 0 free space but when i go into dvd drive theres nothing on them???

 

[scotte666]

do i need to format them 1st???some1 said this to me..how would i do this?

 

[scotte666]

do i need to format them 1st???some1 said this to me..how would i do this?

 

[dk]

no you don't need to format a dvd.

to copy a disk you just need to download something called dvd shrink, once you have opened the dvd in that and burn't it to your hdd it will automatically open nero if you have it on your machine and burn it for you, if you don't have nero you just look for the place it saved the shrunk dvd and use your dvd burning software to burn it.