Backing up mini-DV tapes to a hard drive is a bad idea in general. Hard drives are temporary storage, to be used for editing and creative work. The best way to back up valuable footage on a mini-DV tapes is to copy it to another mini-DV tape, camera-to-camera, or camera to deck.
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