Having problem when using DVD Shrink.

You will get this error if you are using DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter to write ISO Disc Image files on a FAT 32 Hard Disk Drive. There is a 4GB limit on file sizes on FAT 32 and ISO Disc Images are usually bigger than that. If you use Shrink in file mode you will not have this problem.

Windows XP/2000/NT can use NTFS, FAT 32 or FAT file systems.
Windows 98/ME can only use FAT 32 or FAT file systems.

Versions of Windows that can use NTFS have a built in converter or you can use Partition Magic.

One of the biggest problems when people make a upgrade from Win98-ME to WinXP is they skip the part at the beginning where there is the option to convert their drives from FAT or FAT32 to NTFS before installing WinXP.

NTFS file system is what you should be using on XP.
The only reason to continue to use a FAT or FAT32 file system is if you are also running another OS like Win98-ME or Linux on that computer.

Even after installing WinXP you can convert your FAT or FAT 32 drives to NTFS.
Open Help and Support and search for Convert NTFS to get complete directions.
Example:
Click Start - Run and type.
Convert C: /FS:NTFS

Before you make the conversion to NTFS.
It is a good idea to both defragment the drive and run a error check fixing both file system errors and recovery of bad sectors.
Right click on your drive and select Properties and these options are on the Tools tab.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307881 is the link to Microsoft's NTFS conversion instructions.

 

I will try this.

Thanks everybody for your help and I will be back later to tell you whether it all worked.

Al

 

Ok everything seems to be working now......Thank you everybody, you all were so great to me ...
_X_X_X_X_X_[small]Al[/small]

 

That definitely sounds like it could be a media problem. What is your media? Let's check it out 1st. You can download a little program called dvd infopro, it's free and can be found in this forum. Now, what method are you using to rip and burn? Are you using shrink to rip or decrypter. The rule of thumb is let shrink rip, if it can't(it's not %100 at ripping) then use decrypter. If using shrink open disc, if decrypter, you will rip and in shrink you will open files. Since you have nero, set it as your burner ie.-open shrink>edit>preferences>fileI/O, finally @ the bottom left, check enable burn w/Nero.There is an excellent guide at http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd9_to_dvdr_with_dvd_shrink.cfm. for using shrink. Is this the way you're doing it? If it is, again I think it could be your media. The prefferred media in this forum is Verbatim and RitekG04(make sure it's branded). You can get the latter at meritline for >69->71ea./100 with free shipping. [bold] Well, i didn't see your post when I wrote this, since you got it working great, if it screws up again, then you can read my post. lol[/bold]
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I decrypt it then use shrink then record,just tried it and now it is working, but one thing I thought I was to unclick burning with Nero, so I should have that checked?

I used Philips but I ordered Verbatim.

 

If you have nero I would burn with it, it is the default burner for shrink, I would rip with shrink, use decrypter if shrink doesn't work. Both rip, you're saving yourself a step by ripping with shrink, just click open disc. With nero and shrink you don't need decrypter, unless, as I said before, shrink can't rip it. If you re-author in shrink you will NOT have a working menu, if only compress, you will. Check out that guide I gave you the link for. Also, what veblin told you holds true, you will only be able to handle 4 gig files with FAT32, NTFS is the way to go to handle large or dvd9 files.

 

I will try it that way and see what happens.....I did convert my FAT32 to NTFS and has seemed to solve the error problem and tomorrow I will try another and hope to have any more problems.


Thanks

 

Don't forget, if you re-author, click on your main movie and drag it to the window on your left. click on back-up, this will initialize nero to burn. The guide has a link to burning w/nero.
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Do I need to reauthor?

 

Re-author is up to you. Some people don't like extras, some do. I like deleted scenes, outtakes, and alternate endings, so I leave them in and take everything else out. you decide what you want to keep. The main thing is the movie, the more extras, the less quality of the movie if it exceeds 4.37g's. I get a dvd for the movie, so I like extra quality there and less on extras if I keep any, so i usually compress extras that I do keep more thereby lessoning compression on the movie, thus improving it's quality. On your 1st effort in recode you may want to leave everything alone and just go directly to burn and see what happens. Recode does an excellent job of compressing and preserving pic quality while keeping extras. Use rw's til u get the hang of it.

 

This seems like a good place to ask this. First, Mr. Plextor owner this ones for you. You have a speedy drive. I have the 708A which may have shared you woes. I used XCopy and it made coasters out of multiple disks with no understanding why till this forum where some mentioned the media and/or drive speed may be a problem. I used slower media and seemed to have better luck or try lower the burn speed. Also, update the drivers.

Now for my question which may fall in the dumb zone but must be asked. Considering the problems I had with the overpriced XCopy Gold, I switched to DVDShrink and have had no issues and have backed up multiple disks XCopy coastered. My question is why would someone use DVD Decrypter if you have DVDShrink? I understand some DVD's have to be condensed to be used with Decrypter but why do it? DVDShrink works great alone?? Any clarity on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks up front folks.

 

Omegand
1-shrink can't rip all movies, for the ones it can't, you need decrypter.
2-I like dvdcopy2 alot, it works well with decrypter as a ripper
3-I like quality of other programs better than shrink,ie. Pinnacle Instantcopy8, rebuilder/CCE, nero recode, and of course,Intervideodvdcopy2, , all of which i use decrypter to rip in file mode and then export to each particular program. so any compressing or re-authoring I will do I can use decrypter to rip,it's fast, and do the rest of my work in those programs.
4-Any re-authoring in shrink destroys menu function and I like a working menu.
5-let me say shrink is a wonderful freeware, I got my start on it, but it is by no means the best out there, It's a great beginner program but I'm always in search of better quality(I have and have used all the aforementioned software)in fact when you get right down to it, why would you use shrink unless you can't or won't spend the bucks?

 

I was having the same problem. I use one disc that is not Fat32 and I am trying it now. Thanks to everyone for being there and thanks to Mrlovkim for having the problem before me and toughing it out long enough to find a solution.

 

paloch, your welcome and one other thing I have learned which a big difference when burning, make sure you have your virus program turned off.

I have ran into some bad luck and my Plextor 712A is broken and Mycom the place that installed it will be replacing it on Friday, so I had it for 2 1/2 days...LOL

I have to say the whole DVD burning thing is fun once you got a handle on it.
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Bigorange,

Thanks for all the info for sure. Truth be told I DID spend the bucks. $89 bucks for XCopy which in my personal opinion (and that is exactly that, my opinion) I think is stinks - coastered more than created, also slow, lack of controls and chokes and high speed burns makes XCoppy a no go for me. So much for spending the bucks. Granted, if the court had not shut them down these issues may have been addressed, but that's water under the bridge. You say you use other programs, Pinnacle, Rebuilder, my question still remains. If Decrypter can only read 4.3 GB how do you get DVD's above that to Decrypter? Forgive my "newbish" on this issue but gotta start somewhere. I'm just not understanding...you use Decrypter first then export? What about movies about 4.3GB?
Thanks again up front.

 

Also, Check out this thread I bumped into.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/89360

 

Omegand, sorry about your purchase of xcopy, it does suck, wished you'd asked 1st. Pinnacle InstantCopy 8 is only 25.00, or nero ultra 6 is 49.00-it's got everything you need(except a ripper) , and Intervideo dvdcopy2 is 79.00. Those are my recommendations. As far as deccrypter goes reading and writing are 2 different things. Decrypter can read any size file,doesn't matter if it's over 4.3 but since it can't re-author or compress, you must have another program to do that for it, ie. shrink, nero recode, then decrypter can burn a re-authored or compressed file. If your file is under 4.3 then decrypter can do it all by itself. Of course shrink will need another program to burn, that's why it needs decrypter or nero, etc. Nero recode, IC8, and dvdcopy2 have their own burn engines. They only would use decrypter to read the file,if they used it at all. Recode will do it all but rip, shrink will rip and re-author and compress but not burn, decrypter will rip and burn but not re-author and compress, IC8 and dvdcopy2 will not rip, so you can use decrypter to rip or a program like anydvd or dvd43,etc. to de-encrypt instead of decrypter. These tools can be used to "burn on the fly" or you can use them so the program can read and send to the HD to be worked on from there. Is this starting to make sense? In other words, there is more than one way to do it, and most programs need a little help from another in one way or the other. In a nutshell you have to rip, reauthor and/or compress, and burn.
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You are the man Bigorange. Thanks for all. I figured it out last night. Used Decrypter to file burn and use Shrink to burn. Shrink will burn if you have NERO 5-6 with DVD option intiated. A buddy of mine would have to go into Nero to burn the files but Shrink on my machine does the burn. My theory is it is using the Nero engine, but its nice becuase there is no need to launch a seperate app. Do you know if I can sell DVDXCopy Gold? I know it has funky register but I would like to get some of the money I paid for that. Also, what are you thoughts on Smartripper?

 

Now that I am using Shrink and Decdrypter I can't believe how easy the whole process is. One thing I could use help with is the menu.

I tried backing up an entire "Family Guy" DVD so the menus would copy and I got a copy protection error. If I just rip the eight episodes, there is no menu and all episodes run one after the other. That's not very convenient. Any ideas?