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How to Back Up DVD Movies for Free Using My Movies? My Movies is free software that will allow you to back up your DVD movies, then watch them on your computer. If you have a DVD drive, plenty of room on your hard drive and are running Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, Vista or 7, you can install and use My Movies 3 Collection Management software to back up your DVD movies to your hard drive. Instructions 1 Navigate to the MyMovies.dk website. Click the "Download" tab and install My Movies Collection Management software. Start the "My Movies Collection Management" program. In Windows Vista and 7 you can find the program by searching for it in the search box. On earlier versions of Windows, click the My Movies Collection Management icon on your desktop or click "Start" and "Search" to find the program on your hard drive. 2 DVD drive Burner Click "Create Account" in the login screen to create a free account. Check your email at the address supplied to verify it. Sign into your My Movies account if prompted. 3 Select "Collection" from the menu and choose "Copy DVD, HD DVD or Blu-ray." Insert the DVD you'd like to back up into your computer's DVD drive.dreambox dm800 4 Select "Folder Structure" as the destination type. Then choose the destination folder. You can back up your DVDs to the "Videos" folder or create a new folder with a name such as "My Movies." Click "Start." Select the check box beside "Close when done." 5 Open Windows Media Player. Right-click the taskbar, then click "File" and "Open..." Navigate to the location on your hard drive where you copied the DVD files. Double-click one of the files to begin playing the DVD backup. Tips & Warnings If you're running Windows Vista Home Premium, Ultimate or Professional, Windows 7 Home Premium or Ultimate or Windows XP Media Center Edition, you can also track your movies in Windows Media Center and play them directly from the DVD using My Movies. To do this, open Windows Media Center and click the up or down arrow buttons until "My Movies" appears. Select "Movie Library" to see the movies you've added to My Movies and select "Play Disc" to play the DVD that's currently in the drive. dreambox dm500 hd My Movies software will only back up regular DVDs for free. If you want to back up HD-DVDs to your hard drive, you must earn points by donating or contributing to the My Movies website. My Movies will only back up DVDs that are not copy protected. Although My Movies suggests that you use software such as AnyDVD or AnyDVD HD to defeat the copy protection on your DVDs, this is an extremely unwise move. To remain within the limits of the law, never make any attempt to override DVD copy protection. Make only one backup of each DVD for your own personal use. Never attempt to distribute any DVD copy, even for free.
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