Chicken Little - backup copy protection?

[simonko]

My software used or was running: Windows 98, AnyDVD 5.6.3.1, SmartRipper 2.41, Avast 4.5 antivirus uptodate.

I decided to backup Chicken Little on my spare computer with the following software mentioned above running. I inserted the dvd and AnyDVD said it found ripguard and removed it. I then ran smartripper (to view easy the main movie and info about it) It froze saying it couldnt read end sector. I then ctrl+alt+del to end frozen program. The OS was usable for a bit then froze. I then rebooted and it went to scandisk. It said it failed to read long file names. I was then prompted that I was missing VMM32.vxd file an other *.vxd files and then it shutdown do to instability/ missing files.

I booted with 98 startup disk, to replace missing files. Low and behold I found that my \VMM32 and \iosubsys folders were gone! along with the major *.vxd files in \system folder.

I am now forced to do a full reinstall!

Anyone else with this problem or know of a virus that does this?

Thanks.

[dvdguy4]

Try dvdfab decrypter. It worked for me. I also believe it has puppetlock on it to.

[simonko]

I rebuilt the software on that computer and I cannot reproduce the problem. (other than smartripper not reading end sector) I must of picked up a virus or malware somewhere. Odd because I run spybot search and destory, avast 4.5, and zone alarm.

Go figure...

[jtoolman2000]

Well, considering the AnyDVD is at 5.9.4.1 ( Many versions ahead of yours ) and this DVD just came out, you may not have a new enough version of AnyDVD to crack anything sneaky that may be lurking in this new release. The latest DvdFabDecrypter should also work.

This same or almost same problem was described many moons ago with The Incredibles. The person ended up reinstalling windows. One of our top dogs here finally narrowed it to a user problem and not the DVD itself.

Try it on an XP machine.

[handyguy]

isn't w98 limited to under 4 gigs? How did you overcome that?

[rkr1958]

isn't w98 limited to under 4 gigs? How did you overcome that?

Even though the DVD might occupy 8+ GB, individual vobs are no larger than 1-GB.

[Rich86]

I rebuilt the software on that computer and I cannot reproduce the problem. (other than smartripper not reading end sector) I must of picked up a virus or malware somewhere. Odd because I run spybot search and destory, avast 4.5, and zone alarm.

Go figure...

One more off the wall possibility . . .
How big a hard disc are you running on this backup machine with Win98? You can run into problems running large hard discs on an older machine if the motherboard bios and op system are not updated to handle large capacity drives. But this would only come into play with very large hard discs when the amount of data on the drive exceeds what the motherboard and op system can address.

[simonko]

Rich86,

Its a AMD 1.3 Duron, Asus A7S-VM bios 1006vm, 512MB Ram, 30gig Maxter HDD 23gigs were available.

jtoolman2000,

I havn't updated AnyDVD because all the new updates seem to deal with European PAL DVD protections not USA NTSC ones.
And fixes for CloneDVD, DVD Shrink, Nero Recode, and DVDdecrypter which I dont use.

I usually use XP but I was encoding video on the other desktop computer that has it. My laptop which also has XP, I was dl and doing other internet related stuff. Plus my Win98 machine just runs quick no bloatware Thats why its still around.

[RottenFoxBreath]

no exciting protection on any version of chicken little.
what it does though is have a lot of angles for different languages,like for example,one scene with the newspaper front page has about 4 different languages,so multiple angles.