need help copying from DVD - CRC errors prevent full copy.
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I'm trying to pull some family videos off a friend's DVD (which was burned from some videotape) and I keep getting copy errors. If I just drag the file to my desktop, an error message says "Invalid MS-DOS function". Then I remembered xcopy, which has an option to ignore errors. Well it doesn't ignore all of them, so I'm still stumped. Anyone know of a copy solution that will truly ignore CRC errors? The funny thing is that the DVD plays just fine in a consumer DVD player; it just can't be read by a PC drive (I've tried five different drives so far...).
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
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I'm trying to pull some family videos off a friend's DVD (which was burned from some videotape) and I keep getting copy errors. If I just drag the file to my desktop, an error message says "Invalid MS-DOS function". Then I remembered xcopy, which has an option to ignore errors. Well it doesn't ignore all of them, so I'm still stumped. Anyone know of a copy solution that will truly ignore CRC errors? The funny thing is that the DVD plays just fine in a consumer DVD player; it just can't be read by a PC drive (I've tried five different drives so far...).
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
I rip my DVDs with DVDFab.HD Decrypter(it is free) and then convert them in to .mp4 files with handbrake. The DVDFab will create a iso or folder copy of your DVD (encrypted or not). Either can be copied to another DVD. Handbrake will make it smaller. All of my DVDs and home movies are on a hard drive plugged into my PS3. I can watch anything I got in seconds and I can write the .mp4 back to DVD relatively easily.
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I'm trying to pull some family videos off a friend's DVD (which was burned from some videotape) and I keep getting copy errors. If I just drag the file to my desktop, an error message says "Invalid MS-DOS function". Then I remembered xcopy, which has an option to ignore errors. Well it doesn't ignore all of them, so I'm still stumped. Anyone know of a copy solution that will truly ignore CRC errors? The funny thing is that the DVD plays just fine in a consumer DVD player; it just can't be read by a PC drive (I've tried five different drives so far...).
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Reading through you post (unlike most who have replied below) I can see that it was burned from video tape so there is little to no chance of there being copy protection on the disk. The CRC errors are more than likely from scratches or degradation of the physical media. What you want is IsoBuster[^], absolutely kick-arse, bought the registered version years ago and still getting updates. It was purpose built to pull data from damaged optical media. Go and download it, it works in freeware mode and as you would expect get the advanced features when registered. Can't remeber all these years later what the extras are though.
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Reading through you post (unlike most who have replied below) I can see that it was burned from video tape so there is little to no chance of there being copy protection on the disk. The CRC errors are more than likely from scratches or degradation of the physical media. What you want is IsoBuster[^], absolutely kick-arse, bought the registered version years ago and still getting updates. It was purpose built to pull data from damaged optical media. Go and download it, it works in freeware mode and as you would expect get the advanced features when registered. Can't remeber all these years later what the extras are though.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'm trying to pull some family videos off a friend's DVD (which was burned from some videotape) and I keep getting copy errors. If I just drag the file to my desktop, an error message says "Invalid MS-DOS function". Then I remembered xcopy, which has an option to ignore errors. Well it doesn't ignore all of them, so I'm still stumped. Anyone know of a copy solution that will truly ignore CRC errors? The funny thing is that the DVD plays just fine in a consumer DVD player; it just can't be read by a PC drive (I've tried five different drives so far...).
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
CloneDVD can deal with the errors, though you may still get the errors, it can deal with them.
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I'm trying to pull some family videos off a friend's DVD (which was burned from some videotape) and I keep getting copy errors. If I just drag the file to my desktop, an error message says "Invalid MS-DOS function". Then I remembered xcopy, which has an option to ignore errors. Well it doesn't ignore all of them, so I'm still stumped. Anyone know of a copy solution that will truly ignore CRC errors? The funny thing is that the DVD plays just fine in a consumer DVD player; it just can't be read by a PC drive (I've tried five different drives so far...).
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Hey Jesse, If Michael Martin's excellent reply does not help you, then there's a fool proof way of copying the video to a DVD. Get an external TV tuner card, connect your old DVD player to it, play the DVD, and record directly to your hard drive (you can use Windows Media Center to do that). It will create a loss-less dvr-ms file for you that you can burn to a DVD.
Regards, Nish
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Hey Jesse, If Michael Martin's excellent reply does not help you, then there's a fool proof way of copying the video to a DVD. Get an external TV tuner card, connect your old DVD player to it, play the DVD, and record directly to your hard drive (you can use Windows Media Center to do that). It will create a loss-less dvr-ms file for you that you can burn to a DVD.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
you can use Windows Media Center to do that
Or Windows Media Encoder.
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I'm trying to pull some family videos off a friend's DVD (which was burned from some videotape) and I keep getting copy errors. If I just drag the file to my desktop, an error message says "Invalid MS-DOS function". Then I remembered xcopy, which has an option to ignore errors. Well it doesn't ignore all of them, so I'm still stumped. Anyone know of a copy solution that will truly ignore CRC errors? The funny thing is that the DVD plays just fine in a consumer DVD player; it just can't be read by a PC drive (I've tried five different drives so far...).
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Isopuzzle does a pretty good job of recovering data from damaged discs. It works well with multiple drives - it builds up the image to form the complete iso.
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It's a copy protection trick - PCs do read ahead so unused sectors are created with CRC errors to trip up the drive. Try DvdShrink or AnyDVD.
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I'm trying to pull some family videos off a friend's DVD (which was burned from some videotape) and I keep getting copy errors. If I just drag the file to my desktop, an error message says "Invalid MS-DOS function". Then I remembered xcopy, which has an option to ignore errors. Well it doesn't ignore all of them, so I'm still stumped. Anyone know of a copy solution that will truly ignore CRC errors? The funny thing is that the DVD plays just fine in a consumer DVD player; it just can't be read by a PC drive (I've tried five different drives so far...).
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Well, once again CP has been a great resource for problem solving. I was able to get the video off the DVD and onto my PC using a program call jfilerecovery. (www.jfilerecovery.com[^]) It was a bit slow but it worked. Thanks again, folks!
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse