Problem with "Das Boot"

[ram1009]

Anybody else having problems backing this up?

[GregiBoy]

Nope............

[astage]

Yes. I've backed up "Das Boot: The Director's Cut: Superbit" edition - EAN: 5-023940-535864.
From my database logs, I used DVDFab 5.220 in "Clone mode" back in Dec 2008. If it helps, the original two disc IDs were:
4666BF14F44F0B37 [DVD_VIDEO]
7FC8B5359F8023BF [DVD_VIDEO]
No problems encountered in backing up to two Verbatim DVD+R DL discs. (MKM003).

Edit:
Sorry, should have said. This is a UK retail release of the DVD.

[ram1009]

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I appreciate your concern and I'm prepared to do all you suggest if necessary. However, IMHO it seems it's a lot simpler to ask first if this happens to be a troublesome disk with a known solution.

[GregiBoy]

As a general rule of thumb, "PROBLEM" disks, as you put it, are pretty well restricted to new releases that containg some new copyright schema that Fab has not caught up with.

With older releases such as this, ithe usual operating procedure is to try it with Pathplayer ON/OFF, clean the disk and inpect it for dameage, or it is a bad pressing. There are more bad pressings than you may realise.

[ram1009]

As a general rule of thumb, "PROBLEM" disks, as you put it, are pretty well restricted to new releases that containg some new copyright schema that Fab has not caught up with.

With older releases such as this, ithe usual operating procedure is to try it with Pathplayer ON/OFF, clean the disk and inpect it for dameage, or it is a bad pressing. There are more bad pressings than you may realise.

Yes, I've had experience with PP and with cleaning a disk as you say. This one was sorta strange. As you know, Das Boot is 3.5 hours long and this was on one disk. I wasn't sure what to expect. It might have been compressed or as it turns out was written on both sides. The first side copied perfectly until the final 1.5% which took as long as the rest of the disk. Strange. Anyway the copy was fine however the default name was "DVD_ Video" and I didn't notice it until I went looking for it. When I tried to copy the other side I changed the name to "Das Boot #2" and the copy was funky. By now it was getting late so I set it to run again with the same name and went to bed. In the morning it was stalled at 98.xx %. Mind you the only thing I had changed from the first side to second was the name so I decided to let it run with the default name and it copied OK. Now I need to figure out why I can't change the file from "read only" so I can change the name. It just reverts back. Any suggestions?

[GregiBoy]

Gotta be something with the Windo$e rights where you are saving the file or something still has hold of it in a process.

Try renaming after a machine reboot.

[ram1009]

I have no problem with my Das Boot DVD so post the info mentioned in post #4

That won't be necessary because, as I said in post #7 eventually I got it to copy. Thanks for your help.