Copying A DVD Movie to The Workstation Or Laptop At The Time You Are Using Windows XP

It is easy to copy DVDs. What is more, thanks to special DVD burning software, now you can copy even system files to DVD. For many people it is still not clear how you can achieve this under Windows XP. If you are among them, here are some tips, which will help you.

After putting the DVD into the DVD drive (some older computers may have only a CD reader, so it won�t function!), we can copy the files we want from the DVD to the respected folder by clicking the very common copy/paste command. This will copy a lot of files onto your computer, and you can look for the ones with the bigger sizes to see the actual movie you wanted to � the rest are supporting files.

Next, you need a DVD ripper program. There are such programs, which allow to turn any VCD into DVD format and any rlv format to mp3, mp4, VLC, etc. Some of the DVD ripper programs are free, while others offer a trial version for free and then you need to pay if you want to use the full version for longer.

Before you copy the DVD to a hard disk, you need to check if there is enough free space on the hard disk. A standard DVD is 8GB, so you need at least 10GB free hard disk space for it. The extra free space is a requirement of the operating system because it creates a buffer there. It is very important that before you start copying, you close all other programs. The reason is that if you run any programs, while copying the files from the DVD to the hard disk, the data might not be copied correctly.

Now a day�s rewritable DVDs are also available, which can be written and erased several hundred times. We can use these rewriteable DVDs to record data that needs to be re-written more than once, such as updates of official records. If you have adequate knowledge of how to copy DVDs, you will realize there is no difference in recording the two, except that the re-writeable version tends to be a bit slower.

Windows XP allows not only to copy DVDs to hard disk. Under Windows XP you can also copy a hard disk to a DVD. You would like to do this when you need a backup of your hard disk. Since hard disks are not eternal because they get damaged or a virus wipes their contents, backups are vital. So, it is great to backup your important files to a DVD. Burning to DVD is done with the help of a DVD burning program. For instance, Nero or Roxio are good Windows DVD burning programs. As a rule, DVD burning programs are user friendly and sometimes you need just a few clicks to copy from your hard drive to a DVD or the other way round.

By: Isaiah Henry

Isaiah Henry is a writer on dvd ripper solutions. Visit DVDShrinkNow.com for more information on dvd copy and dvd rippers software. Read some of the basic differences of dvd ripping software.

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