DVD Shrink 3.2 "Invalid DVD Structure"

Hi. I just helped my brother restore an old Pentium III 1.2ghz computer from his work. It was given to him without a hard drive. We got a hard drive, replaced the 50x CDROM with a Lite-On DVD burner SHW-160P6S and an Emprex combo drive COMBO 5216IB (CDRW/DVDROM/7 in 1 card reader).

It has Windows XP SP2, and Nero Startsmart that came with one of the optical drives.

I was able to copy a few DVDs, but now the Emprex (which I use as the source drive) doesn't work when using DVD Shrink. Whenever I try to open a DVD a little window pops up saying "DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue. Invalid DVD navigation structure." When I put the disc in the Lite-On, DVD Shrink works fine.

According to InfoTool, the Lite-On has no region code selected, while the Emprex is listed as Region 1. Also, the Emprex has 4 region changes left while the Lite-On has 5. I'm located in the U. S. and A.

I didn't mess with the drives. The only thing I did was put the new drives in (Lite-On is D: and Emprex is E and connected the power and ribbon cables. Both optical drives and the hard drive are on Cable Select (though I don't think this is the problem as I was able to use the Emprex as the source drive before).

Any suggestions on how to get the Emprex to work with DVD Shrink? It's easier to just have a source drive and destination drive than to just use one drive and swapping out the source and blank discs.

You could try to find a region-free firmware at www.rpc1.org

The current (and future) batches of original DVD's have additional copy protection on them which prevents DVDShrink from working. Try using the RipIt4Me method.