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Sandy
31st December 2007, 15:54
The DVD drive in my computer went out and I need to back up a dvd. I have made one of my home network drives available to the computer with anydvd and clonedvd on it. How do I get anydvd and clonedvd to recognize the shared network dvd drive is available?
GaPony
1st January 2008, 05:27
I don't think you do... I'm pretty sure it has to be a physical drive attachment, not a logical one.
sArnie
14th January 2008, 07:48
The DVD drive in my computer went out and I need to back up a dvd. I have made one of my home network drives available to the computer with anydvd and clonedvd on it. How do I get anydvd and clonedvd to recognize the shared network dvd drive is available?
Both AnyDVD and CloneDVD access virtual drives. I did not try yet whether shared drives work as well.
If You have to copy a disk because You have to give back the original You might get by with a file copy or an image, which You should be able to create from a shared optical drive if AnyDVD is running on the hosting PC. What definitely does not work is to burn on a writer that is only a shared drive on another PC, regardless of AnyDVD or CloneDVD being installed on either or both PCs. That is a limitation of the Windows operating system.
What I don't understand, is why You don't install both tools on the PC the working drive is installed on?!
evlncrn8
14th January 2008, 10:20
What definitely does not work is to burn on a writer that is only a shared drive on another PC, regardless of AnyDVD or CloneDVD being installed on either or both PCs. That is a limitation of the Windows operating system.
I guess you've not heard of iScsi ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI
GaPony
19th January 2008, 05:35
I guess you've not heard of iScsi ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI
That's kind of stretching the point, isn't it? It doesn't need to be made more complicated than it is, especially if both PCS have AnyDVD and CloneDVD2. After all its a home network. Its not like he's 1000 miles from the other PC.
It would be far easier to just work from the computer with the good drive and access the files from the other networked computer... or just copy them over to a temp or working folder the "good computer".
evlncrn8
19th January 2008, 10:06
stretching the point?.. nope, it was more to point out that your information was somewhat inaccurate... and, if its a network share cd/dvd it'll most likely fail any copy protection signature checks, so he couldnt run a protected game, however with iScsi, its at least possible...if it was just to watch movies, then copying the files over the network would be an easier solution obviously...