Really need some help here. Ran defrag all drives. Rebooted. Disabled all programs running in the background. I opened a file on my F drive (I have 45 gig available). My work, then a sub folder to hold my back-up. Opened Decrypter, followed all of the suggestions posted here (I think), disabled Nero. Closed Decrypter. Opened Shrink, 3.1.7.6, did an analysis. Took 1½ hours. When this was completed, I had to open Decrypter, it did not open by itself. Then I got the following error message. go, or post a step by step of what next? I 14:18:15 DVD Decrypter Version 3.2.2.0 started! I 14:18:15 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 1) W 14:18:15 Drive C: (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB W 14:18:15 Drive D: (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB W 14:18:15 Drive E: (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB W 14:18:15 Drive F: (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB I 14:18:15 Initialising SPTI... I 14:18:15 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 14:18:15 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD±RW! I have a 1.2 Gig Athlon 512 RAM 200 WD Liquid HD-This has been partitioned into f drives, F is the drive I would like to use for my backups. Master LG 4040B DVD burner ( I just upgraded the software to the 303 Slave 16X DVD Player I am a 60 year old grandmother that just wants to stay up with technology. Please assist, I don’t know the techno-babble, so if you could either point me in the direction I need to Oh! One more thing, the file folder containing the ISA does not have any other files there, should it” Like VIDEO_TS or AUDIO_TS? TIA Granny
You will get these errors 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 or Decrypter 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: to convert drive C: 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. If you are writing a ISO Disc Image then you will only have that single .iso file. You will not have VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders.
Thanks for the reply. Can I convert my drives with all of my programs and data on them without causing a bunch of problems? Or should I just convert the drive that I want to use for backups? TIA
Scuba Pete's guide for using DVD Shrink with DVD Decrypter to burn. Here we go, step by step - it can’t fail. First create a folder for your HD backup. Try to put it someplace where you won’t forget it (i.e. C:/All DVD Work/My movie Name). Next download DVD Decrypter and under mode select “ISO, Write”. Un-tick the box that says “verify”. Where it says “source”, you’ll leave that blank as DVD Decrypter will find the location of your backed up DVD file automatically. Lastly, where it says “Destination”, select the drive where your burner resides. Feel free to close DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink will open it when it needs it. The link for the newest DVD Decrypter - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm Download DVD Shrink. Open it and click “Edit”, then click “Preferences” on this page we’re going to select “DVD Target Size” as custom and set the size as 4360MB - we do this to make extremely sure that our disc isn’t too large. Then under the “File I/O” tab un-tick “Enable burning with Nero” then click “OK”. The link for the newest DVD Shrink - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm Place your original DVD in your DVD-ROM drive and a DVD blank in your burner’s drive. DO USE Ritek G04, Verbatim or media boasting “Advanced AZO Dye. All other media could very well cause errors, only the very best media should be used for DVD Video backups. Now is defiantly not the time to put your crappy cheap stuff in - ) Now, take just a second and under “Target Device” go to “Select target device” once there, select “ISO Disc Image”. NEXT, IMPORTANT, tick “Launch DVD Decrypter to burn the output image” box. Finally, where it says “Select target image file”, browse till you find your created folder for your backup and click “Save”. That’s it ! Click “OK” and DVD Shrink writes that ISO image to your HD. It then opens DVD Decrypter and has it burn the ISO image to your waiting blank DVD. Don’t use your PC for anything at all while it’s working. - I'M NOT KIDDING ! STAND BACK FROM THE COMPUTER ! * There have been issues where playing your DVD on your burner may result in errors during processing :-( Enjoy, Pete
If you are only going to be using Windows XP on your computer then you should really convert all your partitions to NTFS. But for a start to use ISO Disc Image files you only need to convert the one partition you are writing the ISO file to. You can convert the other partitions when you have time.
