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Has something changed regarding this procedure?

Ever since installing 1.17.9 a few weeks ago, MakeMKV always asks for permission to access removable drives (I have 2 the drive and an external SSD I use for ripping, etc).

I followed these steps and it is still asking.

I am on macOS 15.3.

you can email me for the auto flasher for it

Thanks. Email sent.

I just found this topic and realized I have one of these drives collecting dust. Is this useable for UHD? Drive Information Manufacturer: PIONEER Product: BD-RW BDR-XD05 Revision: 1.21 Serial number: --- Firmware date: 2014-04-02 Bus encryption flags: 1B Highest AACS version: 81 LibreDrive Informati...

Thanks.

If I am unable to clean/repair this drive, I will look for a Pioneer.

I have purchased from Bluntman in the past (I am in Canada) and it looks like he has some Pioneer slims available.

Are slim drives less reliable than full size drives?

I have not done that yet as it looks tricky.

The last 3 discs that failed, all failed at around (about) 30GB into the backup. So, I just did a light grease on the rails and screw to see if that helps.

Testing now.

I just had a third LG WH16 drive go bad ("No Disc" error). Obviously, I am wondering if this is just bad luck, or if this drive is known to have reliability issues. Does anyone have any experiences, good or bad, with this model? Or, recommendations for other brands/models that are might be...

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This capability would have been helpful for me during the James Cameron releases last year. I went through 3 copies of Aliens and one of the discs had different errors. With this capability, I might have been able to "piece together" a good backup.

That did not work for me. Whenever I select Handbrake, I get a notification that makemkv was blocked and the item in Application Management is switched off. I tried adding it while the root-launched application was still running and also after a quit and relaunch. The Application Management switch a...

My second Aliens UHD came and it also has read errors and won't RIP. I decided to try slowing down the drive to see if that would help. It didn't. So I set the speed settings to "0-99" and gave up. Yesterday, before I sent it back to amazon, created an encrypted backup (in case the third A...

I am using macOS. I will give that a try on my old Windows machine.

Thanks for the help.

I tried that. I made an iso of the encrypted folder and mounted it. But MakeMKV would not see it as a disk. I was able to open the discatt.dat and extract the movie, but there does not appear to be a way to create a backup of it.

I have successfully created an encrypted backup of a damaged UHD disc. The backup contains a working discatt.dat file and I am able to use MakeMKV to extract the videos.

Is there a way to create an unencrypted backup from this encrypted backup that I can turn into an .iso?

If I have 2 identical discs that both have errors on them (presumably not the same errors) can I do step 2 with the second disc? Also, I am doing this on macOS and the -d option in step 2 is saying "Direct disc access not available." even though I blessed it with makemkvcon first. If I dro...

True Lies arrived and the backup worked fine. Unfortunately, the dovi tools seem to be having an issue with the file, but that's a different thread. Edit: Weird. Same ripped file, tools and procedure worked fine the second time with dovi 7 to 8 conversion. I know what we are watching tomorrow night!...

Just received Aliens 4K today from Amazon and I can't do anything with it due to read errors. Tried both backups and a direct rip of both versions, but no luck. I tried cleaning the disc but I am still getting read errors and I don't have a player to test it. Such a let down. UHD Drive is a new LG W...