So I take the DVD out, and put it into the DVD drive again to see if maybe it actually WAS copied over, to see if the computer can read it. Suddenly, my computer crashes - total black screen, and I try to restart it and no windows safe mode works. The BIOS doesn't recognise the harddrive.
It took some difficult recovery efforts, but I got most of my files from my old harddrive back (I'm using a new computer now). So I'm wondering if what happened to me has happened to anyone else, and what could have caused it. Was it cause for suspicion that the Thief file was just a little too big for the DVD - could there have been a virus embedded into it somehow? Is it possible to do this with torrents, that someone along the line could change the file? Or perhaps it was related to me putting in that DVD somehow, or downloading a bad copy of DVDShrink. I don't know.
Basically, I'd like to know if anyone has any idea what could've happened, and if you've heard of anything like this before.
Aside from that, I'm really excited at the progress that's been made since I left... I've been following this project closely for a while now, and have been involved over on wikipedia a bit (though it seems that there's someone there who is opposed to making any specific mention of this restoration). However, I think that next time I will order a DVD directly from Garret Gilchrist instead of trying to download the thing... less risky - I'm not very keen on having a repeat of what happened.