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Gummi Bear · Jul 6, 2003, 07:41 PM

I made a home movie of some friends and family. I deleted it off my computer. Now i want to make a copy of the DVD that i created, but i only have 1 superdrive.

Is it only possible if i have a second DVD Burner, so that i can directly copy from the SuperDrive to the second DVD burner?

Or is their another solution??

icruise · Jul 6, 2003, 08:36 PM

Make an image of the DVD using Disc Copy and then use Disc copy to burn the image. I'm pretty sure Apple has a help item about this on their website.

Gummi Bear · Jul 6, 2003, 08:44 PM

wouldn't the disc image be too large? A DVD is 4 Gigs.

willab · Jul 6, 2003, 10:21 PM

Why too big? I've done it.

nonhuman · Jul 6, 2003, 10:26 PM

You can do that with Disc Copy? Cool. I've only used toast for it in the past on school computers.

Gene Jockey · Jul 8, 2003, 01:22 PM

Originally posted by willab:
Why too big? I've done it.

Well, I'm pretty sure Disk Copy in OS 9 (6.3) won't do more than 2 GB images. Unless you went and found yourself Disk Copy 6.4, that's a problem for DVDs. OS X's Disk Copy has no problem with large images though. So maybe that's the concern...some people are still in OS 9, I guess.

--Josh

icruise · Jul 8, 2003, 02:42 PM

Considering the original poster has a Mac that doesn't even boot into OS 9, I didn't think it was necessary to address that.

Gene Jockey · Jul 9, 2003, 10:39 AM

Originally posted by Icruise:
Considering the original poster has a Mac that doesn't even boot into OS 9, I didn't think it was necessary to address that.

I realise that (obviously he/she's not in 9 anymore), but that could have been the reason he/she thought a DVD was too big to image. Lots of people are used to rules from 9 that they take for granted but no longer apply when they move to X. That's all.

--J