Making a Backup

[mis3]

Just bought a new movie and I tried to make a backup copy. I tried it in my Dell laptop's NEC ND-6650A using Nero-6.

I first tried "Copy DVD", I got an error message "This DVD is copy-protected and cannot be read".

When I tried "Make Data DVD" and selected everything in the orignial DVD, it read for more than 50% of the movie and displayed a message that a file could not be read.

When do I have to do to make a backup of this movie?

[mats.hogberg]

When, I don't know, but How: Start reading!
First, head over to the DVD to DVDR forum and read the stickies.

/Mats

[mis3]

I did some readings as per your suggestion. I used DVD Decrypter to successfully copy the movie DVD into hard disk.

I then used Nero Recode to burn the new DVD. The movie was about 7.8 GB. I first burned one DVD-5 media (DVD+R) with compression and it came out OK. I could play the movie in both the PC and DVD player.

Again, using Nero Recode, I burned another one with DVD-9 media (DVD+R DL) without compression. Strangely, I could not play this one in both the PC and DVD player. It would load but after the copyright page, it would stop.

Did I do anything wrong?

[redwudz]

If you just want to do a 1:1 backup, you can use DVD Decrypter, ISO read>ISO write. What DL media are you using? Verbatim DL seems to the have the highest compatibility.

If you wanted the DVD to end up on one DVD-5, just use DVD Shrink.

[mis3]

I used DVD Decrypter's ISO Write to burn another DVD-9 and this time, it works. The backup copy works in both my PC and DVD Player.

However, I chose the option "Verify" and the verify operation failed. These were the messages:
- Verifying sectors
- Failed to read Sector 19888 - no seek complete
- Failed to verify sectors
- Operation failed.

[redwudz]

You were lucky to be able to back it up with just decrypter. A lot of newer DVDs are using ARcoSS encryption and need DVDFab Decrypter or similar just to get it on your hard drive.

But since you have Nero, you might try Nero CD-DVD Drive Speed and see what it says about the disc.

[whitejremiah]

im personally not too familiar with dual layer burning yet, as the dual layer discs just recently hit reasonable prices (in my opinion at least.....) but you probably could as far as making a dual layer backup, just feed your movie to dvdfab decrypter and just burn the vob files it spits out in nero, no?