Help with Copying DVD to Hard Drive, then re-burning
 

I have a series of family movies on DVD that I'd like to copy to a USB attached archive drive, and still have the opportunity of re-burning from the archive drive to a fresh DVD in the future. What is the recommended way to do this?

"Family movies" as in purchased retail DVDs from the store, or DVDs you made from your own VHS tapes or TV recordings? The method is different, depending on source.

thanks for the question.. these are DVD movies I have made via Sonic DVD. I have them archived now on Iomega 500GB USB-connected disk in Video_TS and Audio_TS folders. But now I want to re-burn them on DVD media and dont know the best way to do this.

The best way to copy the disc -- the actual disc -- is to read the ISO in ImgBurn (freeware) to a temporary ISO files on your hard drive, and them write the ISO file to a new disc -- again, in ImgBurn. A guide for this process, using the pre-ImgBurn DVD Decrypter (near-same program) is at http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/vid...-decrypter.htm

If you've already copied the folders off the disc, and want to burn from those non-disc locations, then you'd want to use ImgBurn in build mode (write files to disc). Be sure it's on UDF 1.02 + standard ISO 9660 mode for the burning type. ImgBurn is usually able to "smart detect" when content is a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS, asking to switch to UDF+ISO if you've made a mistake.

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