From Wikipedia: An ISO image (International Organization for Standardization) is an archive file (also known as a disc image) of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system. ISO image files often have a file ...
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Convert VMDK to ISO
I have a disk image that is in VMDK format, and I would like to convert this to an ISO so that I could use this outside of a virtual environment. I know that, at first impression, these formats don't ...
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VMware virtual WindowsXP - VMDK or ISO for a third person who is going to use it
Our team made a little application, then created in VMware Player a Windows XP virtual OS and installed the application into it. Now the guy who is going to use wants us to make an image of it, burn ...
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How to burn Mac OSX .iso to DL-DVD on Windows 7 PC?
I've made a backup ISO of my Mac OSX DVD. I'm trying to burn that same ISO back onto a Dual Layer DVD (the image size is just north of 7gb).
I created a DVD using Windows 7 image burning software, ...
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How to edit Windows 7 Selection menu on DVD
I have downloaded one Windows 7 ISO from Internet.
At installation i got menu "Select the Operating System you want to install"
While choose, It displays some name one name in description of choose ...
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Best image cloning/restore software? [closed]
I would like to image my current laptop's hard drive and keep that image as a baseline the next time my laptop/HD crashes (to restore from. What is the best software to do this, Ghost, etc?
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convert IMG with CUE to MP3 (or maybe others, like FLAC, OGG, …)
I'm searching for some tool which can convert some IMG+CUE file to MP3 (or other formats).
It should be:
easy-to-use (i.e. preferable a GUI; or if console-only, straight-forward to use, without ...
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Is it possible to repair iso images incorrectly made with dd in OSX Snow Leopard?
About a year ago, I made rips of a bunch of my CD/DVD games and packed the originals away.
The problem is that now I'm trying to use WinXP Pro on VirtualBox on OSX Snow Leopard to play these iso ...
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How to install Ubuntu on another partition? from image, w/o CD, w/o flash-stick
I have one installation of Linux that I want to abandon, and I would like to install Ubuntu on another partition. The problem is that this miniPC does not have a CD-drive and I don't have flash-stick ...
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Create Windows 7 installer ISO with preinstalled softwares?
Is it possible to create a Windows 7 installer ISO image with softwares installed and configured?
For example I install a clean Windows, configure it, install some necessary softwares etc. and I ...
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ISO Archive vs Cd Image
Is getting an image of a disc (eg with brasero) the same thing as going into the cd, selecting everything and putting it into a .iso archive (eg with 7zip or ubuntu's archive manager)?
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Write Fedora.iso to isb and boot it from a macbook
I have an .iso image of the full fedora 16 install (Downloaded from http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#formats as "Fedora 16 DVD")
and the question now is: How do I write it on an usb ...
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prevent mounted iso opening at startup
I have saved some of my children's educational DVDs on my wife's laptop as .iso files and put shortcuts to them on the desktop. When the icons are double-clicked Daemon Tools Lite mounts them and ...
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How to make a USB flash drive bootable like a CD made from an ISO
Apparently my installation of syslinux was incorrect and liveusb-creator installs it somewhat correctly. Now I am getting the error "chain.c32: not a COM32R image".How do I make a USB flash drive ...
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Creating a custom LiveCD
I am trying to build a custom live cd from a Fedora 14 or CentOS 6 install. I have tried the process found on the Fedora Wiki. It's basically using the livecd-tools program and then using some kick ...
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USB boot and newer BIOS and firmware
Is it safe to say that most newer (x64 2010+) desktop BIOS from major manufacturers can be configured for USB boot?
I'd like to be able to boot from USB for GParted 10, Windows 7 pro, and Ghost 2003+ ...
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Unable to burn .iso using Windows Disc Image Burner (Error code: 0x80004005)
When I try to burn a disc image file using Windows Disc Image Burner the burning fails and the Status says "The disc image didn't burn sucessfully because an error occured (Error code: 0x80004005)".
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Where can I download the latest Windows 7 installation DVD? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Where do I download Windows 7 (legally from Microsoft)?
I need to do an in-place upgrade to repair my installation of Windows 7 Professional 32-bit but I want to make ...
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Install an OS, (iso file) without burning it on a CD or making a bootable USB flash drive
I'm trying to install windows 8 developer preview.
I've already downloaded the ISO. Now I should burn it on a CD or create a bootable flash drive....zzz
I was wondering, can I skip this step? Can I ...
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Missing kernel on debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1
I want to install the Debian testing linux version.
But at a certain point of the installation, an error occurs:
Impossible to install kernel. a compatible kernel version is missing.
… or ...
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Burn Windows7 ISO on OS X for Another Computer [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you burn an ISO image on a Mac?
1] I am on a Macbook Air OS X Lion
2] I have a Windows7 ISO from MSDN.
Goal] I would like to "burn" it onto a USB stick to ...
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Why is my Linux reporting an allowable size error when building an .ISO?
I have played with Linux customization, when I want to build the .ISO I get this error:
$ mkisofs -r -o rhel.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat ./
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding ...
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Linux - mount iso with lowercase directory names
I'm mounting an iso with:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /directory
what i need to change, to convert all directory and file names to lowercase?
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running chkdsk /F on a large mounted NTFS image file gets BSOD (Windows Vista)
Using ddrescue, I've created ISO files from the C: and D: drives on my Windows XP laptop's harddisk (after the laptop stopped booting and chkdsk etc. wouldn't fix it).
I was able to mount the 60 GB ...
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How to Create Windows 7 Bootable DVD using Nero
I have an .iso file that contains the windows 7 home edition and I want to make a bootable dvd to install it to my PC, I have nero burning rom 10. Is there any tutorial for this because I found this: ...
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Can I merge multiple disc with installers/autorun into one disc?
I have several small CD's and two of them have a installer and auto run enabled. I know how to create an ISO from disc (imgburn) but how can I can put them on a single disc without corrupting the ...
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Boot USB from parallels VM (trick with ISO/floppy)
A couple of years ago it was not possible to boot from USB on every computer (where the BIOS doesn't support this). There was a tiny ISO image which allows for booting from a USB stick.
Now we have ...
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How to copy an ISO image onto USB with dd
The last paragraph says,
The ISO image now uses a 'hybrid' system: it can also be copied onto an USB stick without formating it (using dd).
Does anyone know how to do this?
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Boot From CD XP installation
I am trying to format and install Windows XP on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, but I can't boot from the CD. When I go to the BIOS system, I check that the boot order is correct, first the CD and then ...
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How can I tell if a downloaded ISO is complete?
I just ran into a nasty problem with an ISO download from Microsoft. I successfully burnt it to a rewritable DVD, and copied the contents to the local hard drive on another machine, but when I went ...
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Why I cannot copy install.wim from Windows 7 ISO to USB (in linux env)
I need to make a USB bootable disk of Windows 7 ISO.
My USB is formatted to NTFS, ISO is not corrupt. I can copy install.wim elsewhere but I cannot copy it to USB. I even tried rsync.
rsync error
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Installing Visual Studio on Macbook Pro with Parallels/Windows 7
I have a Visual Studio 08 ISO on a DVD. And I don't know how to install it. I thought I could insert it and install it, but there is more to it than that I see. I have a MacBook Pro with Parallels 6, ...
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Is there any advantage to using ISO vs Folders for CD rips?
I've used ISOs when ripping my CDs just to keep the integrity of the CD, but the only problem is that if I ever needed to edit a file inside, I would wind up unpacking the WHOLE iso, ...
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Arch - VirtualBox - Use mounted ISO
I've an *.img file, that can't be converted to *.iso, because its a multi-session disk.
So I simply changed the file ending to .iso.
Now, I am able to mount it using the following command:
mount -o ...
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Linux: finalize DVD so that it can't be written to
We have an ISO that we want to burn to a DVD, then zero out the rest of the disc, and finalize it so that it can no longer be written to. In short want to burn an ISO so that it's impossible (to the ...
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Need to recover data from a poorly burnt 8.5GB dual-layer DVD - Cannot copy half the data from the disc
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I had a series of backup CDs that I had burnt some time ago. In order to consolidate the many discs I copied them all to my hard drive in separate folders, compressed them into .RARs (at ...
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VirtualBox says “No bootable medium found!”
I downloaded the latest mu microsoft hpc pack 2008 r2 with service pack 2 x86 x64 dvd 709909.iso.
Both VMWare Workstation and Oracle's VirtualBox give me an option to select an ISO file . When I do ...
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A free Windows 7 tool to create .iso image of a cd/dvd [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Open source / freeware application for Windows 7 to create ISO images
I am a software developer. My development machine runs Windows 7. I have installed VMWare in order ...
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How to set default permissions for all applications to a windows 7 image?
I will be using the Extended Change Access Control List tool (Xcacls.exe) application to perform this task and after looking at the tool I can apply changes to files and folders easily.
My goal is ...
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Recommended ISO Creator [closed]
I would like to create ISO file from selected folder. I have searched software like this from google with limited success. So I would like to hear other people's suggestion and recommendation.
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Trying to create an ISO of my bootable USB using the unix command: dd
i'm trying to create a (bootable) ISO (which i'll then burn to dvd) from the source being an bootable USB disk (it contains windows 7 and i've installed a number of PC's from it already).
So i'm ...
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Run an ISO file in Linux?
I have mounted an ISO file on my Linux machine. It's an ISO file to install Windows 7. It's mounted but I have no idea how to run it. There are EXE files inside, but I don't think I should touch them ...
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Access Desktop as root user in linux
I know the command to get to your Desktop is cd ~/Desktop. This however does not work as the root user. However I need to be the root user because I would like to move a file, from my desktop into my ...
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How to install Windows 8 Installation ISO when it does not fit on a DVD?
I am trying to install the windows 8 64-bit ISO with developer tools. The ISO file is apparently 5.2GB when I try to burn it to my DVD, but the DVD's capacity is only about 4.8GB. In addition, I don't ...
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How to install Windows 8 from USB flash drive?
I downloaded the Windows 8 Developer Preview image, and I'd like to install it on my netbook.
My netbook doesn't have a DVD drive though. Is it possible to install Windows 8 from a USB drive? How ...
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(How) can I split the Windows 8 Dev Preview + Dev Tools ISO in 2 DVD's?
I downloaded the W8DP with Developer tools, but it's 4.8 Gb, just to taunt me (as standard capacity DVD's are 4.7 Gb).
Is it possible to split it on 2 CD's? Or if not, how would I install it?
I ...
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Install Windows 8 using ISO from XP
I have downloaded windows 8 developer preview. I have mounted its ISO, but it does not ask to choose a partition to install.
There might be a way (using some command line perhaps) to install windows 8 ...
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Boot from Blu-Ray
I'm currently downloading Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools which is unfortunately too large for a normal DVD. Since I don't have oversized DVD's nor an USB stick with enogh capacity ...
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imgburn application version 2.4.4.0 + MDS file
I used the imgburn tool to create KIT.ISO file (from dir and files)
after imgburn finished , I see two files
1. KIT.ISO file
2. MDS file
please advice why I need the MDS file
only I need is to ...
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How does a downloaded ISO get corrupted? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to get corrupted download with http?
I downloaded an ISO for fedora. Went to install it as a VM. It failed 5 times the installer. The warning for the ...
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Linux: Copy DVD ISO to empty hard disk / partition and boot as if it is a DVD?
I have a broken DVD drive and no others available right now to burn a DVD iso to so I'd like to use a empty hard disk instead.
I've tried Unetbootin but that only copies a few megabytes of files - ...
