There are many techniques available to copy the contents of DVD into the hard drive of your computer. Some of them include:
To copy protected and encrypted DVD to your hard drive:
Some DVD will be encrypted and protected. To copy those DVD’s to your hard drive you will have use some software available in the market and use them to copy to your hard drive.
There are 2 steps in copying the Encrupted DVD to your hard drive:
Decryption of the DVDCopying the contents to the hard drive.
Decryption Software available for DVD decryption:
There many free and paid software’s available online which you can download and decrypt your DVD. Some of the free software’s available is DVD43. Alternative for this is a paid one AnyDVD. You can download any of these and decrypt the encrypted DVD.
Copy the DVD contents to the hard drive:
For copying the contents of the DVD, we have software’s available in the market. We can use any of them to copy the contents. Some software’s will copy the contents in whatever format you want like MP4 etc, so that we can play it or use it for our purpose. Some software’s will copy and shrink the size of the contents, so that you can copy then to your iPod or other devices.
Some of the software’s available online to copy the DVD to your hard drive are:
Handbrake- This software will copy the contents and also has the ability to shrink the size of the contents. But this software will take some time to copy the contents of the DVD.
MagicDVDRipper- This software will also copy the contents of the DVD to your hard drive, but this is a paid one that you can buy online. This has many other options also copying only particular content to your hard drive, copy and convert the files in DVD to any format, ability to download the decryption files for the protected DVD’s.
There are many other software’s available online for copying DVD contents to your hard drive.
Direct Method of Copying DVD contents to hard drive:
If suppose, you want to copy your DVD contents to your C drive, then follow the below given steps:
Open the DVD-ROM drive in your computer and place the DVD in correct position, then close the drive.The computer will detect the DVD inserted.Go to “My Computer”, Click DVD drive which will come after you insert your DVD.Click on the DVD icon whose contents you need to copy to your hard drive.Do a “Control + A” from your key board to select all the contents of the DVD.Then right click on the selected items.There will be drop down that appears, click “Copy” in the drop down options.Go to “C” drive in your “My Computer” and right click on the blank space and click on “Paste” in the drop down appeared.
This will copy all the contents in your DVD to the C drive. If you want to paste the contents of the DVD into a folder in your hard drive, then follow the above steps till 7, then go to “My Computer”, right click and select “New Folder” and give a name (Any name) to that folder. Go into the folder and right click and select “Paste” from the drop down appeared.
