Backing up snags...

[patch god]

maybe your hard drive is faulty.

mine was.

what happened was i burnt a few dvds fine and all when i first got my dvd writer.

then one day when i was burning it stopped about half way through. then i tried a different disk. failed. tried a differetn game, failed. i started to use RW dvds.

but it kept failing. so then i did a hard drive error check. came up with errors and fixed em. then it worked. but later down the road my hardrive was doing crazy stuff constantly. so i took it ack to the guys who built it. they did a diagnostic and found that it was faulty and replaced it with a new one under warranty.

so it could be that. im not sure if thats ur problem, just a suggestion.

[Warlock]

What are the software's Error recovery options set to? Make sure ignore read errors isnt checked when reading to HD.

[dannyk]

i seemed to have sorted it

I changed the media to Ritek G04 & Bingo - they all worked first time...!!!
Lesson learnt i think...don't go for unbranded...go for what other people recommend...

Thanks to all who posted.

DannyK

[patch god]

So it was a media problem. Word of advice, never use cheapass media for PS2

[kawasakijock]

Originally posted by patch god
So it was a media problem. Word of advice, never use cheapass media for PS2

try telling that to some guys in the UK m8, they will not believe you!!!!!...I always use Ritek G04's no matter what im burning...be it a ps2 game, movie, apps etc.......use good branded G04's, it makes sense..cutting corners with cheap crap aint worth it!!!

[EVOEvo]

i got 100 dvd moives backed up on princo dvd-rs and they work fine in my apex tobisha and ps2 dvd players not a one of them skip or any thing its great media for the moives but it dose suck for games.

[kawasakijock]

princo dvd-rs .................BAHHH!!!

i wouldent give the time of day my friend, i'v used them b4 on movies..............they skip n jump all through a movie, and thats burnt @ 1x, 2x, 4x....i don't rate princo....

[LeonC]

I use Fugifilm for movies.

[patch god]

I use princos also. for movies that is. they never skip either. but they r only good at 2x.

plus my dvd player is twice as strong as my PS2 and it doesnt constantly load stuff and move the laser up and down etc etc like the ps2 has to.


I use Taiyo Yuden DVD-R. They are the best media money can buy. even better than ritek, believe me.

[drewster]

use dvd decryptor
never had any problems.......only with damaged disks