iso-image interview questions
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I just bought a serial for Windows 7 on-line from the Microsoft store (the most painful shopping experience EVER!). I selected that I wanted to download my version of Windows 7 after purchase. After payment I was listed a Product Key but no download link in sight.
Where do I download my Windows 7 ISO to burn to disk?
Note: I'm not a Technet or MSDN subscriber.
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So can I burn an CD ISO to DVD? We've just got a bunch of DVD-R's lying around and I don't want to bother with torrents to download the new Fedora DVD.
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Both command-line and screen-oriented pointers appreciated!
update:
I verified the disk utility, hdiutil, and dd methods. dd seems the fastest, 30 minutes on my macbook pro vs. 40 minutes for hdiutil. I was able to simplify dd to use just if= and of=
For the DVD, I used /dev/disk2. I verified this with diskutil list and unmounted it first.
$ sudo umount /dev/disk2
$ dd if=/dev/disk2 of=mydisk.iso
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A .ISO is a digital copy of a cd or dvd. Almost 90% of all digital copys end on ".ISO". Why is this? Was there someone that called it .ISO and everyone just copied it?
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Under Windows, is there any way to edit the contents of a bootable ISO?
I tried PowerISO, but unfortunately it isn't free.
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I just upgraded from Windows 7. I hear that Windows 8 has native mounting. However, when I right-click the .ISO file, there is no mount option. I really need to do this, because I got a message that MagicISO is not compatible with Windows 8.
How do I mount it?
Pop-up menu without option to Mount:
I also hear that there is a mount button in the ribbon, but I can't find that either.
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I need to create a Bootable CD from a ISO. is there a free software available?
I am using Windows 7
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How can I boot into an ISO file in GRUB? The ISO file is on a reiserfs partition and GRUB can access it (already tested that).
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My understanding is that in Windows 7 if I right click an ISO image I should have an option Burn Image, or if I double click an ISO I should get a dialog to let me burn the image....
Not happening for me, any idea's why?
Edit: 29th April.
I do have isoburn.exe in my system32 directory, and it works just fine if I launch it manually from cmd. However I simply do not have the context menu when I right click on a iso file.
So my more specific question is, does anyone know how to simply restore this context menu item, an entry in the registry perhaps? (but where and what)
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I'm looking for a freely available utility I can run on Windows 7 to create CD/DVD ISO images from actual CDs and DVDs.
Any suggestions?
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I have a CD that's created from an ISO file which I use to install a custom version of Ubuntu via plop linux.
The cd works fine but I'd like to use a bootable USB drive instead.
I used the command dd to try and create the bootable USB:
dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4k
Now this does copy the files and make the USB bootable but I get the error "Missing operating system"
Any ideas?
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I have folder which contains over 200 files and has size of over 1.3 GB:
I use Gizmo Drive software to create an .iso file from that folder.
The interesting thing is it takes only 1 or 2 seconds!
I have tried that several times. I even tried to create the .iso file on another volume. Again it takes only 1 or 2 seconds.
I tried to mount the .iso file, everything works fine. I thought that it might be an .iso file referencing the source folder then I moved the source folder to another place but no luck. Even copying the produced .iso file takes minutes!
So how come creating the .iso file takes only 1 second!
Do you have any explanation for that?
Notes
- All tests conducted on a regular HDD, no SSD.
- Using Windows 7 x64, have 16 Gig memory, Core i5 CPU.
I have used sync.exe to flush all file system data to disk just after the .iso file is created and sync.exe took 14 seconds to flush the data. That means it actually takes 14 seconds to create the .iso file. A quick benchmark on my D: drive shows that it can write the same .iso file from an SSD to my D: drive in 14 seconds and that confirms the source folder is in RAM and it takes 14 seconds to flush the data.**
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I have a machine with a bootable ISO stored on it, and I have another blank machine, which I want to install the ISO on. They're both on the same LAN (attached to the same switch). How would I go about booting the blank machine from the ISO stored on my primary computer?
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