Ripping bad DVDs causing problems with my computer

[cal_tony]

On a few occasions I have had some of my disks, commercial and personal, go bad either thru scratches or with the personal ones just general deterioration. In trying to rip these disks I have encountered severe problems with my computer after the attempted rip.

Problem 1: I had to reformat a hard disk that I was copying the dvd to. It just error ed up.

Problem 2: After an attempted rip, computer just not operating properly. Not big stuff but just not the same.

Problem 3: Dvd drive reverts to writing at .7x to 1.9x regardless of the disk.

To fix problems 2 and 3 I've just used sys restore and restored to the previous day and everything would be just fine again.
The software I have used has been Dvd Dycrypter If that didn't work I would use Dvd Fab dycrypter.

My question is.. is there something in these software programs that would cause these problems?

[t0nee1]

I use both those progs,have for a while now, and never had issues with comp going bad!.. try uninstalling your rippers and see how your Pc runs. Check for malware, viruses, defrag your hdd, check for errors.Try RipIt4ME to rip,see if that helps. Good luck!!!!!
BTW cool name!!!!! 8)

[jman98]

[quote="cal_tony"]

Problem 3: Dvd drive reverts to writing at .7x to 1.9x regardless of the disk.
/quote]

If you are running Windows XP and your DVD writer is an IDE slave, this is a "feature" deliberately designed by the guys who wrote XP where slave devices have an insanely small timeout value and get reset to PIO mode once it gets reached. It is often just a matter of time before this bites you. It can be fixed by using the Registry Editor to reset the timeout value. I've seen various solutions for it, but the only fix that worked for me was to use RegEdit to set the timeout hex value for the device to something like FFFFFFFF which basically means it will never timeout. I don't recommend using this method unless you understand the Registry very well as it requires you to do some work on your own to figure out where the device information is that you need to change. A web search might provide some other suggestions on the problem that don't require you to use RegEdit, but they seem to be less likely to work, although they are easier for people with lesser technical skills to try.

[oldandinthe way]

If the problem occurs with IDE slaves, consider making your DVD writer the master. Or after you rip a disk with errors, reset DMA mode.

If your writer is on the same IDE port as the hard disk, move it. The only way I can think of for these ripping programs to trash the hard disk is with your writer eating up all the IDE bandwidth.

A good practice is to clean the disk before you rip it. I use Fellowes Cleaning wipes. Rentals and other borrowed disks are often dirty as well as scratched.

[Spartacuss]

I have also had this happen a few times ripping scratchy DVDs. Here is the link to the page that helped me.

http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm

[cal_tony]

That you for the help. Before using sys restore, I should have checked the DMA status of the drive but I didn't.
Now that I know what to look for, I will do some further work to trace it down if the problem re-occurs. However, these problems that I mentioned do not occur that often. Maybe Once a year and sys restore has always fixed the problem. So, now I know why. The thing with the hard disk only occurred twice. Now if I have a problem disk, I copy it to a USB hard drive without much else on it.

[KiwiKid]

I'm not sure what version of DVDFab Decrypter you use but the latest beta checks DMA for all drives and resets if you chose. Might save you hunting around the registry.