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How to copy DVD movie secretariat to hard drive ?

Secretariat

If you love horses you will love this one! This wonderful movie shows how courage and determination of a smart Virginia woman doesn't let a man's world in the horse racing world discourage her to race her horse she has total faith in! The camera gives you the amazing feeling you are in the race and riding on the horse. This movie is worth buying and watching!

With a DVD, of course, you can watch this Secretariat on your PC, Mac, compatible TV or device, but don't think it's a little troublesome? Why not just backup this DVD movie to your hard drive, or just for your convenience or for the collection, it will be very cool!

With DVDSmith Movie Backup Free DVD backup software, you can easily copy the DVD of Secretariat to your Hard Drive. Since DVDSmith Movie Backup is DVD backup software for copying DVD to hard drive as DVD folder. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc, or with Any Video Converter Pro to convert your DVD folder to MP4, MKV, 3GP or other video formats for your iPod, PSP, mobile phones and many portable media players.

 

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How to Copy Secretariat DVD to your Hard Drive with DVDSmith Movie Backup?

Copying Secretariat to hard drive with DVDSmith Movie Backup is extremely simple. Only with a few clicks, your movie DVD can be copied to hard drive as DVD folder and there won't be any quality loss. Below is the instructions of copying Secretariat DVD to hard drive with DVDSmith Movie Backup.

1. Insert DVD Secretariat in your DVD drive

The logo of your DVD drive will be changed into a disc shape with disc name as below:

(Note: this disc named 0223 is for illustration only, since that the disc name will be loaded automatically according to your disc.)

2. Choose backup mode

In the main work space, you can see two backup modes:

This will backup all contents from the DVD, including main movie, bonus features, and maybe some other extra video clips.

This will only backup the main movie of Secretariat from the DVD, excluding bonus features or other extra video clips.

(Note: see the difference between these two modes)

3. Select source disk location

All DVD drivers will be listed in the drop down list. Select the drive where the movie DVD is inserted.

4. Select output folder path

Remember to choose a place where there's enough space to put the backup files.

If the Free Space of Hard Disk is smaller than the DVD Size, you should press this button to change output folder with enough free space in the disk.

Otherwise, this prompt will appear:

5. Select Copy Method. There are three copy methods availalbe of copying DVD to hard drive with DVDSmith Movie Backup. The DVD copy methods are:
Normal: For unencrypted and CSS encrypted DVD.
Lowly Enhanced: less scan times to decrypt DVD.
Highly Enhanced: more scan times to decrypt DVD.

6. Start backup

After all DVD copying settings are done, press "Start Backup" button to start the DVD copying process.

If you decide to backup later or just want to cancel it, press "Stop Backup" button to stop the DVD copying process.

7. Check the Output Folder

Once the backup process is finished, you can explore them on the hard disk:

(Note: above file illustration is in Full Disc mode. If using Main Movie mode, there will be different.)

Difference between Full Disc and Main Movie

In the main window of DVDSmith Movie Backup, there're two modes you can select Full Disc or Main Movie.

With Full Disc mode, it's able to backup all contents from the DVD, including main movie, bonus features, and perhaps other extra video clips.

If using Main Movie mode, this program will check and backup the DVD automatically by itself. Normally, the main movie consists of files with names like "VTS_01_xxx", "VTS_01_xxx.xx", etc, excluding bonus features or other kinds of video clips with names of "VIDEO_TS", "VIDEO_TS.BUP", "VIDEO_TS.IFO", etc.