need help burning dvd's w/ one drive on laptop. can it be done?

need help burning dvd's w/ one drive on laptop. has anyone done this? I was told to try dvd decrypter. I was able to decrypt the dvd, but then what do I do b/c the destination and the source drive are the same. please help

 

has your laptop got a dvd writer on it not a combo dvd/cdr writer if the later you wont be able to do it you will need an externel dvd writer

 

No, the driver is a dvd burner and cd burner. I keep getting an I/O error when the burn is completed using DVD decrypter.

 

if your laptop has a DVD burner, then follow the DVD-R guides and it should work
http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/

 

Done that's why I'm posting. Everytime my burn completes but before the successful burn message pops up I get an I/O error message. The "new" DVD is not recognized when I try to play it.

 

mmmmmmh, have you tryed smartripper, i have problems with a couple of movies using decrypter but that was using instant copy rather than dvd2one. Also are you burning the disc using the burning software within dvd de crypter if you are, get hold of record now or nero and try that maybe a conflict with your drive and decrypter or try smartripper then try using dvd decrypter to make an image and burn it with decrypter again, a bit long winded but that maywork. I would recomend getting dvd2one a fine little program. Hope you find a solution.

 

Thanks for the advice. let me see if I understand it all. I need to use smartripper to burn to my hard drive, then dvd2one (to bring back together??) then save it again, then burn w/ nero or recordnow? Is this right? Three steps? Or just smartripper, then nero OR dvd2one. I know this is annoying, put I really appreciate all the help.
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This sucks. I downloaded Nero Vision Express(demo) and I used smartripper and then dvd2one and have the file sitting on my desktop, but I don't know what to use on Nero or if this is even the right type of Nero. Last bit of help...I hope. thanks for all the help so far.

 

I'll try that nero, thanks. Last night I used recordnow and everything that was done using smartripper was recorded. But it isn't recognized as a dvd. when I put the dvd in, it won't read like a dvd. I can see that all these different ifo, bup, and vob files have been recorded. How do you turn these files into a readable dvd. We're getting pretty close here.

 

Before the burn begins using Nero (demo) a screen pops up that says "you are about to burn a multi-session write once dvd disc. Session 2 and above will not be readable with some dvd-rom drives." should I burn multi-session anyway or burn w/o multisession? I chose burn w/ multi-session and got some errors and the burn failed

 

okay, same result using nero as with recordnow. the only thing that burns is about seven .BUP .VOB . IFO files. I have no idea how this turns into a dvd.

 

no dice. still the same result. I burned nine files onto the dvd. the same files that are on the original dvd, but it won't play like a dvd. Is there some certain way to play a burned dvd or should it open up like an original dvd?