Learn To Copy A DVD To Your Hard Disk
Most physical storage gets damaged over time, and DVDs are no different. If you wish to be able to watch your precious video discs five or ten years from now, it would be prudent to create a backup copy or two. There are several ways to do this – by copying the DVD, or saving the DVD contents to your HDD. In this post I’ll discuss the second possibility – backing up your DVDs to the hard disk.
The simplest (and least likely to work) way to back up a movie DVD is to just copy the files normally – right click the disc drive and select “Explore” to avoid the autoplay, then copy any folders you see to somewhere on your hard drive. This usually works fine with personal DVDs like the recording of you marriage or some such, but not with protected discs.
Another way to back up a disc is to create a “disc image”. This is a single file that contains all the data of a disc. The most widespread image file format is ISO, though some backup tools may also store it as a .uif file or other proprietary file formats. To create a disc image you could use e.g. ISOBuster or MagicISO. To access the disc’s contents later, you will need to burn the image file to a blank DVD or use a virtual drive to mount it.
Finally, there is another way to back up a DVD – DVD ripping. In essence, you use software like “Any DVD Converter” and it creates video file(s) from your DVD(s). This way you can easily play the movie anytime you want, but you also forfeit the menus and you won’t be able to burn an exact copy of the disc if the original gets damaged or is lost. Anyway, I won’t go into detail here – this is a nuanced topic that would take an article of it’s own to describe.
Well, there you have it – three ways to back up your discs to the hard disk. Hopefully you’ve found this post useful.
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