I have just started trying to copy a nonproprietary DVD made of my wife skydiving. When DVD C Copy gets to the 100% mark, the screen goes black and the computer reboots. I'm using Win2000 with plenty of RAM and a large disk. I have disabled pc-cillin but have Norton Works enabled. I also have WinDVD loaded. Is this causing the problem? I need it to read the DVD don't I? Anybody, Help?
Hi RLSimmen, welcome to aD, As you well know, back when XCopy was made, pple had to reconfigure their PC's in order to get it to work. My first guess would be that it's not closing after it finishing writing. It may well be your discs. Try to upgrade your media and pray (Lol) Well if this is the first trouble you're having, you've had a good run. It may well be time to put that old dog to sleep. Trying to continually patch up a 2 year old, out of date proggy might well be a long, long task. Here is the check sheet for it if you don't already have it (I remember having a printed copy, it took sooooo much time - removing perfectly good proggys just to get XCopy to run, Those were the days, right ?). Black List for DVD XCopy The following programs can cause problems while using 321 Studios software: 1. B's Clip: This package will load a packet-writing software that will constantly talk to your CD/DVD writer, and can cause a number of issues while trying to write a disc. Disabling this software is not enough, as a portion of this package is always running after you start Windows. You will need to uninstall it in Add/Remove Programs, then reboot to remove it. For more information, visit the B's website at http://www.bhacorp.com. 2. Direct CD or Drag to Disk: These are applications from Easy CD Creator from Roxio. This package will load a packet-writing software that will constantly talk to your CD/DVD writer, and can cause a number of issues while trying to write a disc. Disabling this software is not enough, as a portion of this package is always running after you start Windows. To remove them you need to go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. There you can select Easy CD Creator to Change - not Remove. Then you click next until it gives you the option to Modify. Then either Direct CD or Drag to Disk should be selected and changed to "make this option not available". Then click Next. While the program may look like it is installing, it is actually removing those options. For more information, please visit Roxio's website at http://www.roxio.com/en/support.index.jhtml 3. GoBack: This is backup software that constantly runs in the background (Terminate and Stay Ready) which not only needs to be turned off, but disabled. Unfortunately, this may cause some restore points to vanish, but it will free up a lot of hard drive space. For more information visit Symantec's web site for GoBack at http://www.symantec.com/goback/index.html 4. DLA: Also HP-DLA, Veritas DLA, and others. DLA stands for Disk Letter Assignment. This package will load a packet-writing software that will constantly talk to your CD/DVD writer, and can cause a number of issues while trying to write a disc. Disabling this software is not enough, as a portion of this package is always running after you start Windows. You will need to uninstall it in Add/Remove Programs, then reboot to remove it. 5. InCD: This is packet writing software that comes bundled with Ahead Nero Burning Rom. This package will load a packet-writing software that will constantly talk to your CD/DVD writer, and can cause a number of issues while trying to write a disc. Disabling this software is not enough, as a portion of this package is always running after you start Windows. You will need to uninstall it in Add/Remove programs, then reboot to remove it. For more information go to Nero's website at http://www.nero.com/en/ 6. Interactual Player and PC Friendly Player: These programs are DVD software viewers that often come on DVD movie discs, and will try to install themselves everytime you watch a movie on your computer. Please make sure to NOT let these install. Both programs interfere with all 321 Studios software and should be un-installed from Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel when found. In some cases, you will need to uninstall and reinstall our software to restore functionality after removing one of these. For more information about both players, visit http://player.interactual.com/ 7. McAfee Anti-Virus: This is anti-virus software that when running, can cause errors. It needs to be disabled by right clicking on the icon in the lower right side of the task bar. The 321 Studios software then needs to be restarted. Whenever you are using our software, McAfee needs to be disabled to ensure unrestricted access to your drive. For more info go to McAfee's website at http://us.mcafee.com/default.asp 8. Norton Anti-Virus: This is anti-virus software that when running, can cause errors. It needs to be disabled by right clicking on the icon in the lower right side of the task bar and the automatic updates should be disabled. The 321 Studios software then needs to be restarted. Whenever you are using our software, Norton needs to be disabled to ensure unrestricted access to your drive. The Norton Website is http://www.symantec.com/ 9. StopZilla: StopZilla can hinder required portions of our installer, causing the software to fail. Please completely disable StopZilla, then install our software. Once our software is installed, you may safely enable it again. If you have any difficulty using our software at a later time, you may need to disable StopZilla before going to use our software. Uninstallation is not required. 10. MyStorageGuard: This backup software can hinder certain required files from being copied during the installation. Please disable this program before installing our software, and have it disabled any time you go to use our software. Uninstallation is not required. 11. Napster 2.0: This software includes some basic burning software that can cause burning problems if it is running. You will need to close this program completely before trying to use our software. In some rare cases, you will need to completely uninstall this package to attain full reliability, so if disabling does not solve your issue, please try uninstalling this software, and try again. 12. Easy CD Creator 4.x: Due to the age of this package, it is no longer updated by the authors. There are bugs present in this older system that will cause NUMEROUS problems on your machine, not just with our software. Please Uninstall completely, and consider either the new 6.x version from Roxio (http://www.roxio.com) or Nero 6.x (http://www.nero.com). These packages, installed without the Packet Writing software (DirectCD/Drag to Disk/InCD), all work very well together with our software. 13. NTI FileCD: This program has packet writing software installed with it. This package will load a packet-writing software that will constantly talk to your CD/DVD writer, and can cause a number of issues while trying to write a disc. Disabling this software is not enough, as a portion of this package is always running after you start windows. You will need to uninstall it in Add/Remove Programs, then reboot twice to fully remove it. For more information go to NTI File CD's Product page at http://www.ntius.com/default.asp?p=cdmaker/filecd_main Spyware and Adware - some programs can install other software that can be damaging to your Operating System. Please scan for these programs with a Spyware utility. We recommend Ad-aware, available freely at www.lavasoftusa.com If you perform any of these changes, you may need to uninstall our software, then re-install to fix any damage left. If you find some of these packages, please shut down and reboot twice to ensure that the last pieces of the conflicting software are completely removed. Every version of windows requires updates. These updates correct a multitude of problems that are found, on many levels. To be sure your system is completely up to date go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com If you are using Windows XP please visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/default.asp If you are using Windows 2000 please visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/default.asp You will also want to update your Direct X control to insure full functionality of any of our programs. You will want to download, and install Direct X 9 from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/downloads Certain programs running in the background can use system resources and cause our software to experience burning issues. To disable your start up group go to start, run, and type in msconfig and hit enter, then click on the startup tab. Windows XP(Home & Pro): If you are running Windows XP you will click the disable all button. Windows Me: If you are running Windows Me disable all items that are not Windows system processes. Windows 98: If you are running Windows 98 disable all items except for Systray, Explorer and Scanreg. Windows 2000: Windows 2000 does not have this utility please make sure to close all programs through your system tray. Please update your ASPI software by installing the software at this link: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/su...cat=/Product/ASPI-4.70&filekey=aspi_471a2.exe Follow the instructions carefully, and make sure to reboot afterwards. Make sure you have the latest firmware update for your writer by visiting the manufacturer's website. Due to legal issues we cannot provide links for you. If you cannot find any update on their website it is recommended to contact them by phone to make sure your firmware is up to date. Here are some of the more common drives we know of. Please check at this location if you have the corresponding drive: NEC _ND-1100a - http://support.dell.com/FileLib/Format.aspx?c=us&l=en&ReleaseID=R59801 Sony Drives - http://sony.storagesupport.com/dvdrw/index.htm Pioneer - http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/links/list/0,,2076_4249,00.html TDK - http://www.tdk.com/support/dvdburners/index.html LiteOn - http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/english/index-english.htm Toshiba 5002 / 6012 - http://sdd.toshiba.com/cda/main.asp...000003c7/8182000006d4000000010000659c0000154c Memorex - http://www.memorex.com/service_support/software_display.php?id=456&dl=p Verbatim Branded - http://www.v-pgi.com/Downloads.htm Hewlett-Packard - http://www.hp.com/cposupport/software.html BenQ - http://www.benq.com/drivers/storage_drivers.html OptoRite - http://www.optorite.com/support.htm Asus DRW-0402P/D - http://usa.asus.com/products/optical/drw-0402P-d/overview.HTM - choose Download Teac - http://www.teac.co.jp/dspd/download/firmware/dv-w50e/explain.html Plextor - http://www.plextor.com/english/support/support_downloads.html#firm IOMEGA - http://www.iomega.com/software/index.html Here's some information about the proper media to use for DVD Video work: A good grade, Hi-quality media is needed for DVD reproduction ![/b] Phillips, Fuji +R's (not the –R's), Sony, TDK, HP, "Branded" RiData Go3's, Maxell +R (not the -R's as they cannot be trusted), Sony, Ritek G04 and G05 (not the 01's or the 02's), Verbatim - DataLife, Verbatim - DataLife Plus and media boasting "Advanced Metal AZO" BUT, it must say "Advanced METAL AZO", this indicates a superior dye and dye application on a good composite disc. As a general rule, the majority of discs manufactured by Taiyo Yuden, RICOH, Ritek and Mitsubishi are good bets. Look closely at those discs we recommended, you will see some dye types not listed by us. Those are poor risks even though they are made by the same company. [/b] Prices online from SuperMediaStore.com, Meritline.com OR Newegg.com have gotten Ritek G04 starting at about a $ .36 (USD) a disc - and just recently, a "Super Sale" had 100 Taiyo Yuden discs, 4X for $.25(USD)ea. PLUS they all have an excellent return policy. Cheers, Pete
Thanks for the quick response. I can see that I've got a lot to learn about DVDs and your reference material looks like a good read. I appreciate it. RLS
RLS, Actually, if your DVD is the VOB format and you have a "browse" button to find and pick it up, there's no reason why XCopy can't work (except for the part about it being old and out-of-date (Lol) If it's in the VOB format, use Nero's Burning ROM. Iffin it's in another format i.e., DivX, you can use Nero's NeroVision to render it and then burn it to disc. Here's a 30-day free trial (full function) download of Nero: http://ww2.nero.com/us/nero-up.php Cheers, Pete
Thanks, Pete, I have Nero 5 but thought it was for CDROMs only. I'll give it some more study and try it instead of DVDx copy. Meanwhile, I had downloaded the suggestions for "shrink" and "Decrypter" and followed the excellent instructions from bbmayo and it all worked fine. Thanks again to you all. Bob
