I have a purchased copy of Clone DVD and have yet to use it. It reads 40 yr old virgin fine, but when insert a blank DVD and click the popup window instructing me to insert a click insert blank dvd (clicking ok) my whole computer freezes including my mouse. I am running windows XP with the latest version of anydvd. Norton 2005 is disabled, and my pc is spyware and adware free, and the only DVD viewing program I have is windows media player and power dvd.
well i had clonedvd an i didn't like it u should look into nero an dvd shrink if u don't have nero u can download bitcomet and download it from there an dvd shrink u can get here but try that if u need help with it email me at i'manidiot.com edited by ddp
Perhaps you can uninstall CloneDVD and re-install it, including rebooting. This sometimes corrects a "bad" install.
Hey Fellas, CloneDVD 2 is The Best I've seen, I have used DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter, etc. I HAVE Nero 6 Ultra. And I purchased AnyDVD too, long ago I got both CloneDVD 2 & AnyDVD. klouseau, you must have something "weird" going on there buddy. I know that Norton is a resource hungry program, even when disabled it is using memory. How much RAM do you have? You have XP, go to system tools > system information & see how much physical memory you have FREE. You should also make sure your optical drive has not went into PIO mode.MUST be DMA. Make sure your hard drive is defragmented too. If you post more specific information we here may be able to help. Consider this too. You say you purchased CloneDVD 2. Slysoft DOES offer tech support. go to their site & report your problem & they will email you with an answer. Hopefully you can find out like MANY here that CloneDVD 2 with AnyDVD is The Best Combo going. Look around the forum here & you'll see just how many agree. Edit: What bilbo65 said, try uninstall & re-install CloneDVD 2 & AnyDVD. Personally I would uninstall & re-install both. Since you bought them, you'll have the license keys for re-install.
I reinstalled Clone DVD 2 and now it reads fine, and starts the write process, and stops half way through the write to say a write error has occured, probably from bad media. I am using Ritek, and have never had trouble with them b4.
I have 512MB of ram, and 176MB free (thats with firefox and clone dvd2 open). Virtual memory is 2 gb and 1.96 gb free.
No, not doing anything at all when burning. Changed my blanks to Dysan and it burned great. Guess clonedvd2 does not like ritek Thanks for your help boys! jen
@klouseau, You might try different media. But you're using most of your RAM. You might see if different media fixes it, but most likely you'll ned to close some programs down to free up more RAM, or install more RAM if you can. Memory is pretty inexpensive these days. I have 1 Gig and never have any trouble. Since I don't know wny more, this is all I have to suggest. What CPU are you running?
Glad you got it going! CloneDVD 2 is simply the best! It may be you just got some bad discs in a batch. It happens. Personally I prefer Verbatim, or Taiyo Yuden made Sony (MIJ) or Made in Japan Fuji. I never have any problems. Still owuldn't hurt for you to up your RAM to 1 Gig when you can. It helps a lot with Windows XP when burning DVDs.
just curious WHAT model dvd burner you have klouseau, reasoning being is...you went from Ritek to some WORSE quality media in the Dysans...i'd like to know WHICH burner likes CMC MAGS/PRODISCS over Ritek's own media.... docTY~
I'm with kivory666 and would like to know the burner involved. When did you do your last firmware update? Those Riteks should have burned without issue. Cheers.
My burner is an NES2500A. I updated the firmware just this past week with the latest 2510 firmware. Here is my system info: OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name XXXXXXXX System Manufacturer System Manufacturer System Model Product Name System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~2171 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD TCB426G, 3/30/2004 SMBIOS Version 2.3 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)" User Name xxxxxxxx Time Zone Eastern Standard Time Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB Available Physical Memory 141.80 MB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 1.03 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Somthing is sapping your memory. Make sure that you turn off all unneeded programs from running in the background. Disconnect from the internet and turn off antivirus and any spyware blockers as they are resource hogs. I would highly recommend a mem upgrade to at least a gig. I know that this is an expense, but the improvement in performance will warrant it. IMHO Cheers.
Here is a pic of my current running processes: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/klouseau/screen.jpg Thanks for all your help!
@Klouseau That ain't right mate... Here, try this site: http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm This will tell you what is what in your task list. BTW i just got an upgrade from 512Mb to 1Gb RAM because of this new found hobby. The difference when burning is really... Just try it! To burn original films all i use is CloneDVD/AnyDVD... That combo is perfect...
I used wintask pro and it told me all the items in my task manager were needed. The thing I do question is 6 svchosts. Should I need that many?
Yea mate, don't mess with those. In that link i gave you, it tell's you deatailed info on what exactly each and every process does. Before i got my upgrade, i was always running 39/40 processes and i rarely went below 200k. 141k is under par mate, you do need an upgrade or close half of your machine down... IMHO RAM is the highest priority when burning DVD's...
