Original Disk damaged want to create a new archive DVD

[shankomatic]

Well my kid and dog destroyed an original DVD of mine. Previosuly I created an archive copy of it with DVD XCopy. Is there any way to create a second archive from the original archive disk?

[kenshin himura]

make a copy off a dvd xcopy backup? from what i've read you cant, sorry.

[LanEvo7]

I'm assuming that you split the DVD onto two discs with dvdxcopy. Download DVD Decryptor, image both discs, and burn it onto a new disc.

[Gurm]

Hehe.

This is a common misconception. There is NO protection on DVD XCopy backups.

None.

Zero.

Zilch.

Nada.

The proviso here is that DVD XCopy itself realizes that you're trying to backup a backup, and won't let you.

Just put the disc in the reader, put a blank in the burner, fire up Nero, EZ-Coaster-Creator, or whatever burning proggy came with your drive, and hit "copy".

Wait 20 minutes, and repeat for the second disc.

Pretty simple, huh? We ought to sticky a post with the title "protection on DVD XCopy backups?" and this information.

- Gurm

[shankomatic]

Thanks for the tip. However Nero complains there is not enough space on the destination disk to perform the copy. Any ideas?

The one I am working with right now has less than 4GB in use on the original Archive disk.

[Tommyknocker]

Can you rip it with DVD Shrink?

[shankomatic]

DVD Shrink should work, but I was looking for somthing that would directly without re-authoring it.

[Gazorgan]

DVDShrink makes excellant copies of backups. Your compression is always 100%. Basically it's ripping the whole disk for you. You can use DVDDecryptor in ISO mode and do the same thing.