Ntfs / Fat 32 ???

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ElGuiri

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In a tuturial about copying dvd's Chicken Man wrote that one of the criteria needed was: "Hard drive NTFS formatted (will NOT work with FAT32 formatted HD's) with DMA turned on and at least 24 gb FREE space in one partition."

My HD is FAT 32 formatted yet I am able to decypher/compress/burn dvd's.
Could someone tell me if I really need to reformat my HD to NTFS to successfully clone dvd's. Thanks.

One problem I do have is that when I play a cloned dvd in my dvd player is occasionally tells me: "No Play" and I have to restart the dvd a few times before it plays normally....and occasionally the film freezes for a few seconds. Is this just one of the things I have to live with when playing compressed dvd clones?

I use dvd+r disks for copying.
I have used two methods for decyphering and copying:

1. DVD Decrypter for ...decrypting...then Nero for compressing and copying.

2. DVD Shrink v.3.2 foir decrypting and compressing....then Nero for copying.


I also want to know if sticking printed labels on the dvd can affect the play. I know this sounds a stupid question but I think I noticed that a cloned dvd would play fine and then would 'get gremlins' after I stuck on a cd label..?

Anyway..alot of questions and apologies if they've been answered elsewhere..I've just joined and am still finding my way around the forum.

Thanks
 
serjer

serjer

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ntfs is better than fat32 becoz u won't b able to have a single file of 4gb on fat32...if u search the forum,u will find a lot of discussions on y to use ntfs instead of fat32 ;)
as 4 the burn prog,i would recommend using burnatonce or recordnow instead of nero 4 better compatibility with r dvd player
 
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LTR12101B

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In ISO mode, the FAT32 filesize limit of 4Gb can be a more serious problem, than if re-authoring, but if the main movie exceeds 4Gb, you're also in difficulty even ripping individually .... about the only thing you could do is rip direct from DVD and frameserve to an alternative compression format.

Some resources put the filesize limit at 2Gb for Win98SE, others put it as 2Gb only for access in DOS mode (and presumably safe mode?).
 
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ElGuiri

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I've stopped using Nero for the final burn..and it's made all the difference.

Firstly I've installed AnyDVD. Then using the Recode facility on Nero (2 analysing passes) and then burning with CloneDVD.....perfect every time...so far. :)

This is a great site by the way...thanks to whoever set it up! ;)
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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ElGuiri said:
In a tuturial about copying dvd's Chicken Man wrote that one of the criteria needed was: "Hard drive NTFS formatted (will NOT work with FAT32 formatted HD's) with DMA turned on and at least 24 gb FREE space in one partition."
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Since your not following the Tutorial, then all that is irrelevant. Dont read it out of context. The tutorial creates files greater then 4 gb which a FAT32 HD cannot handle. The method your doing only creates files with max file size of 1.0 gb
 
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