Windows xp home. Won't copy from DVD drive to hard drive.

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Hi All.
I made some holiday videos and saved them to DVD. They are about 2.1 gigs
each. Now I want to edit them I cant copy them to my hard drive. Loads of
room but it just comes up with 49 minutes left and keeps going. If I look at
the properties of the file on the harddisk it's the right size as if it's
been copied. The problem is that it never seems to finish and if I cancel
the file disappears. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
Terry.

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With the cd of course lol

"Rob" wrote:

> YOur Dvd or Cd might be dirty it has hapen to me,
> Give it a good cleaning with a wet napkin
> then dry it out.
> "terry worledge." wrote:
>
> > Hi All.
> > I made some holiday videos and saved them to DVD. They are about 2.1 gigs
> > each. Now I want to edit them I cant copy them to my hard drive. Loads of
> > room but it just comes up with 49 minutes left and keeps going. If I look at
> > the properties of the file on the harddisk it's the right size as if it's
> > been copied. The problem is that it never seems to finish and if I cancel
> > the file disappears. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
> > Terry.
> >
> >

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"terry worledge." <terry worledge.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:171805C8-B3B8-42D1-835A-2814B559C8EA@microsoft.com...
> Hi All.
> I made some holiday videos and saved them to DVD. They are about 2.1 gigs
> each. Now I want to edit them I cant copy them to my hard drive. Loads of
> room but it just comes up with 49 minutes left and keeps going. If I look
at
> the properties of the file on the harddisk it's the right size as if it's
> been copied. The problem is that it never seems to finish and if I cancel
> the file disappears. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
> Terry.
>

This wouldn't be a FAT32 drive you are copying to by chance ??
Strange things happen when you exceed the 2 gig file size limit
with some utilities.

mikey

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No Mike it's ntfs just checked the properties. Terry.

"Mike Fields" wrote:

>
> "terry worledge." <terry worledge.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:171805C8-B3B8-42D1-835A-2814B559C8EA@microsoft.com...
> > Hi All.
> > I made some holiday videos and saved them to DVD. They are about 2.1 gigs
> > each. Now I want to edit them I cant copy them to my hard drive. Loads of
> > room but it just comes up with 49 minutes left and keeps going. If I look
> at
> > the properties of the file on the harddisk it's the right size as if it's
> > been copied. The problem is that it never seems to finish and if I cancel
> > the file disappears. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
> > Terry.
> >
>
> This wouldn't be a FAT32 drive you are copying to by chance ??
> Strange things happen when you exceed the 2 gig file size limit
> with some utilities.
>
> mikey
>
>
>

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Hi Rob.
Well I've got lots of them and every one I've tried does it. Also WMP will
play the mpegs no problem. Plays a dvd fine too. Terry.

"Rob" wrote:

> YOur Dvd or Cd might be dirty it has hapen to me,
> Give it a good cleaning with a wet napkin
> then dry it out.
> "terry worledge." wrote:
>
> > Hi All.
> > I made some holiday videos and saved them to DVD. They are about 2.1 gigs
> > each. Now I want to edit them I cant copy them to my hard drive. Loads of
> > room but it just comes up with 49 minutes left and keeps going. If I look at
> > the properties of the file on the harddisk it's the right size as if it's
> > been copied. The problem is that it never seems to finish and if I cancel
> > the file disappears. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
> > Terry.
> >
> >