Its a new free dvd ripper. I guess its supposed to take the now dead dvd decrpters place. I don't do this very often but I'm all for making the process easier(usually the dvds I burn are just back ups of my HD).
On the other hand, making copies is illegal, so don't do it.
Microsoft has a Backup feature for WindowsXP. If you have XP Pro it should already be installed. If you have XP Home you have to install it from the XP installation disk. I wonder why it's installed by default in XP Pro but not XP Home.
When people cant get their data its not usually because of windows.(unless the person doesn't know what to do and just reformats or takes it to a shop that probably doesn't care.) Its usually HD failure.
rridgely's method is a good way to do it. If you backed up your whole hard drive wouldn't you have to use about 67,423.5 CDs?
Thats a lot of cds....
Exactly how big of a HD did you calculate that for?
Exactly how big of a HD did you calculate that for?
It was just my estimate for an 80GB hard drive, I was assuming he would be prudent and make backup CDs for the backup Cds for the backup CDs for the backup CDs for the backup CDs
for the backup CDs for the backup CDs for the original CDs he used when creating the backup.
Or that he was would use the recommended practice of putting only one file on each CD to prevent overcrowding. If he was foolishly going to cram as many files as possible on each CD [which can cause the CD to overheat and explode] he would need about 107.03 of them.
That's why CD writers keep getting faster. The faster they spin the less chance that heat can build up on the CD and trigger a chemical reaction with the laser.
Just to get back to the decrypter rridgley was talking about, I have used the shrink+ "old"decrypter combination fo a while now and probably won't change unless I encounter a problem which so far I never have. This new one I note is a beta, although I'm sure it would probably be okay.
A lot of the apps in this area tend to be used most successfully when a guide is used to setting it up, by this I mean a word for word set up by an enthusiast.
The faster they spin the less chance that heat can build up on the CD and trigger a chemical reaction with the laser.
Some of that stuff you said seems way out there dude.
When writing a CD-R using the maximum speed it isn't a very good ideal because it introduces more errors. My current thinking is going over 8X speed is too fast, and thus I don't. Also if using s**t quality discs like all discs made by CMC there isn't any speed that will help.
...that makes no sense. if it spins way too much, then it'll explode. it's happened before when some guy tried doing it at 56x writing speed.
That's true but it's similar to when the CD simply overheats. If a low quality CD is spun at the 56x speed and it is not perfectly balanced such as when the label is slightly off center, centrifugal force may tear the CD apart and then the laser could ignite the flammable gasses that are released from inside the CD itself.
If it's a Metallica CD that breaks apart the heavy metal fragments may strike each other at high speeds causing them to generate sparks the same way the metal wheel and the flint do in a disposable lighter. This makes an explosion twice as likely to occur.
On second thought everybody probably already knows I'm crazy...
I seem to recall reading this on the internet somewhere:
Most people today would be surprised to learn that the terms "ripping CDs" and "burning CDs" aren't just cool slang sayings thought up as another way of saying "copying CDs" and "recording CDs." They were actually terms created in the late 70's to describe when prototype CDs literally ripped apart and/or caught fire.
Mike here is a great article on How CD's work will tell you more than you need to know about that and any other computer related topic you can imagine.
MY personal DVD backup tools are Any DVD along with DVD Shrink. I have tried the other program but it seem kinda slow to me and didnt have the features that Shrink has. As far a HD backup goes I use a second installed HD and use http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp set to copy My Doc. folder to the other HD about every 2 days.
Mike here is a great article on How CD's work will tell you more than you need to know about that and any other computer related topic you can imagine.