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I have an external drive but for some reason my iMac is not reading it. I am trying to make a copy of a dvd, how would that be possible with one drive?
The dvd is not a commercial dvd, just one iI made before. The files on it are VOB and it seems none of the programs on my mac won't accept them into them. I changed them to mp4 with handbrake but those don't seem to be taking either.

Any suggestions?
 

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Make a DMG file from it using Disk Utility, then burn that DMG to a new disc.
 
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