DvD SHrink fails at 90+%

[enemy2pc]

I only recently bought my DvDwriter (3 weeks ago to be exact) and for the first fortnight i was using DvDShrink with no problems. In the last week though Shrink will not finish encoding instead giving me an error anywhere between 92-98% completion. I havent changed any settings and this happens with both full disc and re-author modes. I tried ripping the Originals to my HDD first using Decryter then using Shrink but i keep getting the same problem. I found this very strange though, no matter what DvD i try to Shrink the error message is the same. "could not encode/read/write (forget which) file VTS01_VOB04. Once i close the error box i go to my incomplete image they are always on 3.99GB.

Any help would be very much appreciated

Regards
Bryan

[Forum Troll]

Is your hard drive formatted in the Fat32 file structure? It has a 4 Gb file size limit, but I'm not sure if this is what's happening. If you have Windows 2000 or XP you can change the file structure to NTFS, which has no such limit.

[enemy2pc]

I'm running ME but i'm not sure if that's NTFS or FAT32 but like i said, it was working fine until a wek ago. I'm cheesed of because i'm having to use DvDXCopy.

Bryan

[winifreid]

You must be doing something different. ME is FAT32 and can't create files larger than 4 gig. Either the movies you created before were smaller than that or you burned directly without creating and iso.

[edsmith77]

enemy2pc,
just from the obvious point of view, have you by chance emptied your trash can? And if you are using Norton do not forget to purge those files as well. If this is the problem then you are running on the ragged edge of your HDD capacity and should probably think about a larger HDD.
edit: deleted last sentence.

[enemy2pc]

Hi Ed, I have a 20gb HDD but ive only used 7GB of it. It would apear that it was FAT32 to balme. When i said i hadnt changed any settings i forgot that i set Shrink to create an image file. Ive now changed it back to the Video/AudioTs folders and it's working lioke a dream again.

Thanks for all your help people

Regards
Bryan

[spiderman2k1]

fat32 is not the problem vob file's are only 1gig at there biggest you just can not have one file larger then 4 gig's but you can have two file each 2gig's fat32 can support that. DVD is made up of alot of file's

[enemy2pc]

I was trying to create a single image file with Shrink, thats why i was having problems. FAT32 wont allow a single file to be more than 4gb and Shrink was trying to create one of around 4.5gb.

All working properly now though, thank god

Bryan