DVD copy to HDD in Windows 7

Hi there. I was an avid user of DVD Shrink. I have to travel a lot on business and copy DVD series I have bought, all legal. Now in Windows 7 I encountered a problem. DVD Shrink is way too slow to use it any longer, in XP it was great. Does anyone know of a good program - free or paid - that can copy from DVD to HDD as to watch the movies directly from HDD. DVD Shrink could copy a full DVD in 9 min. Of course it would be handy if a program could also compress into other formats as to save HDD space. Thanks

 

have you tried it in xp compatability mode. no idea if it will speed it up but worth a try.

 

I have Windows Starter without compatibility mode.... just on a netbook ...

 

Have a look at DVDFab HD Decrypter.

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DVD Shrink still works fine for me in Windows 7, not sure what your problem could be.

 

use Run as Administrator

Are you comparing Windows XP speed to Win 7 speed on the same machine? Run as Admin fixes some problems with DVD Shrink and Win 7 but they are not really speed problems. Where exactly are you finding it to be slow? Every thing you do or just certain operations?

 

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems that you're comparing the speed of a netbook to that of a previous machine. That's probably why it's slower - you're using a netbook.

 

9 minutes to copy a full dvd is really fast.
Selenium makes sense. If you are comparing speed on different machines, the CPU will make a big difference, more than the operating system.


DVD Fab is a really good program, but on my old single core desktop 2.1 celeron, it takes about 45 minutes to copy a DVD.

 

Yep, I'd imagine that a netbook would be slow with DVD Shrink reguardless of the operating system (especially an Atom).

 

sorry no time to get back to you till now ... ok before I had a netbook with XP on it and now a netbook with Starter on it. Both same processor and RAM. On the XP netbook DVD Shrink would copy a standard 4.5 GB from a DVD to my HDD in about 9-11 minutes, I really loved that. On the Starter edition that is more like 45-50 minutes. I do have a different external burner ... a slim line LG and before s cheaper Samsung ... any advice ?

 

Did you have a fullsize USB burner on the old setup, or a slimline like now? It always felt like the desktop-size burners always combed a disc much faster in DVD Shrink.

 

I use DVD shrink on a netbook(Atom N-280) and it takes 10-12 mins to complete the task you described.The netbook has win7 Ultimate...It used to have XP and it took the same amount of time..I don't think it's the OS that makes the difference.There must be some other parameter.

 

maybe it is a setting in Windows Starter ? Maybe up-grade to W7 Home or so ? Yes 10-12 min sounds right. The only different parameter is a different external dvd burner.

 

Perhaps try a different burner? They are not all created equal, especially insofar as seek or spin-up times.........

 

Maybe you've accidentally set compression for the dvd rip.

 

If you changed burners, especially from a full sized to slimline, there might be a speed difference causing the extra time.

 

If you have your old machine and burner you could test both burners on both machines to see if that is the problem. It seems like it has to be more than just the burner to have such a big difference, 9 minutes to 45 minutes. I don't think the range of burn speeds in modern hardware would vary by 500% especially if the slow burner is the new one!
Maybe a driver issue?

 

Have not tried it yet ... I may get the old burner back and test on both machines. Without compression still hovering around 40 min mark as opposed to 9-12 minutes. One would think a netbook is much slower but I tested on an IBM Thinkpad with Windows 7 and it was also rather slow ... weird !