I have been trying to back up my movie collection. I use dvd-shrink and nero but everytime I try it takes over 26hrs to encrypt and copy but it never finishes can any one help me as I have been told it should only take about 30min to copy a dvd movie. my hard drive is 40gig with 75% free.
Aussiemum , Welcome to the forum. Could you give us your computer specs. as 26 hrs really slow. The more info we have the better we can help. We need Operating System CPU speed Amount of Ram Burner(model and make) Are you using a DVD-Rom to read the movie from
Hi System is a Pent4, 1500 Mhz processor, 256mg RAM, Windows2000 operating system, Burner is Sony DRX-710UL Dual Interface. Thank for any help Aussie Mum
Hi Guy, I'm assuming you mean encoding as you shouldn't be attempting to copyright (encrypt)a backup. The last time I saw a time that slow was a friend with a Pent III, 500MHz with 256RAM - even then, it should take about 8 hours. While you're getting that info for Mike (we really need that), if you're referring to the time you first see when you begin to encode - that time means nothing. A Pent 4, 2,84 GHz processor with 1024MB of RAM will do a backup of an average 7.3 GB or so disc (without Deep Anaylsis and without quality control) in about 30 minutes if I don't multi-task BUT when I first begin to start the backup it says it will take 6 hours. Over the next few minutes the timew grown smaller and smaller. Did you wait the full 26 hour to do the backup OR are you going by the numbers in the count-down box ? Pete
Your drive might be stuck in PIO mode. You can check this out in Device Manager. It should be in DMA or UDMA or Ultra DMA. If it is in PIO, uninstall it and reboot the computer. Windows should find it and install it. If it installs it again in PIO mode, you might not have DMA enabled in your BIOS.