Thinkpads Forum

So yesterday I received my x61t - it's the first thinkpad I have ever owned, and within 30 minutes I already knew it would not be my last.

I configured the tablet with the 160GB drive, figuring that since I wasn't going to have an optical drive I wanted the extra storage space since I had read about the "Virtual Drive" software which I had never used and figured that I could load a couple of movies on to the virtual drive for those plane rides - all work and no play....

Anyway, I attached my external cd/dvd player, ran the virtual drive and threw a copy (owned) of the classic Clint Eastwood "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" into the dvd player. Windows Media wanted to start playing the dvd immediately - but since I only wanted to load it up and not get sucked into all 3 hours of the movie, I passed on watching it for now.

I tried and tried to open the images so that I could then add them to the virtual drive, but no luck at all. The Video for the dvd is contained in a folder on the dvd - but Virtual Drive refused to recognize the images and so I couldn't load the images. The help files for the software were useless.

Can anyone tell me if I was doing something wrong or help walk me through the steps? Does virtual drive not allow me to image a dvd that I own?

Help, please!

Thanks!

It says on Lenovo's web site that this is possible to do, under the tab for 'preloaded software' for InterVideo.

Maybe Intervideo's web site has some info on how to do it. It sounds like you are supposed to copy the dvd with that software to the hard drive and then use it to play it back.

I'm curious to know if you get it to work.

I couldn't figure it out either. I spent several days on it. Also the Intervideo Virtual Drive sucks. It works but if you reboot you have to load the images all over again. I ended up just downloading Daemon tools instead. You have to rip the DVD to the hard drive as an ISO. I'm using DVD Decryptor. It works great. It creates an extra file which isn't needed. But it's small and you can throw it away. As soon as you load the ISO with Daemon tools the DVD playback software opens it to play.