Questions tagged [iso-image]
An image file of an optical disk, such as a CD-ROM or DVD.
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Reinstall Windows 10 using ISO onto new SSD without losing activation status
I bought my laptop that comes pre-install Windows 10 Home Single Language (activated).
However I wish to reinstall the my current Windows onto a upgraded SSD drive.
And I don't wish to lose my ...
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Installing Windows 7 on second partition
So I have got Win7 Ultimate (32-bit) installed and running on my C: drive. Now I want to install Win7 Ultimate (64-bit) on my D: drive. Both C: and D: are NTFS.
The tricky thing is that my machine's ...
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Update Windows 10 from ISO without losing data
I was wondering if I can update my Windows 10 from a USB, using an ISO.
I have had problems updating for about a year, and tried everything.
My Windows 10 never updates, and is still stuck on 1703.
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Downloading Microsoft Windows ISOs
I have a valid product key for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10 Pro, however since downloading the ISOs from their original providers, the links are now invalid (they were Microsoft links) and I ...
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Burn Win10 install media on Win7, without upgrading Win7?
I'm trying to create Win10 installation media for a PC that shipped with Win10, but without a Win10 dvd. This PC must stay offline.
At a Win7 PC that was online, I tried to get an ISO image by ...
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How do I calculate drive space needed when installing a Linux ISO to a VM?
I inherited a project from someone no longer with the company. I have a bootable ISO of their development machine. It's 48 GB.
I want to install that ISO to a VirtualBox VM. I allocated 100 GB ...
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Creating bootable Debian with Rufus: Unsupported image error
I want to make a bootable Debian flash drive.
Seemed straightforward, something I did before with different distros and specialized tools.
I grabbed the armhf image from here: https://cdimage....
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How can I download windows latest version ISO file by using CentOS
The Microsoft provides a media download tool exe file that only download windows or its ISO file on windows machine. I tried and after downloading 4.x GB at the end its throwing error. I tried many ...
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Bootable USB flash drive from iso using windows CMD (I can't find the tutorial...)
In the begining of last year or the end of 2014 I learnt how to make a bootable flash drive from an .iso from a youtube video. I tried to find the video but I can't and it's not in my history.
The ...
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Convert .MKV to video-dvd.ISO
I'm trying to convert an MKV (matroska) file to an ISO file for a video-DVD.
I looked up a lot of information about DVD and how to get a .vob working but I failed every time.
I tied to extract all ...
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ImgBurn and adware, where is a safe place to download it? [closed]
ImgBurn has adware in it!
I just used it and now all my google results are redirecting to those ad like pages.
Where is a safe place to get it from?
I used betanews: http://fileforum.betanews.com/...
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Open .cdr file on OS X
I need to open a couple of .cdr files on my Mac. I've tried changing the file extension to .iso in order to open it with the Disk Utility app, but it didn't work!
Any ideas how I can open them?
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Create Windows 7 installer ISO with preinstalled softwares? [duplicate]
Is it possible to create a Windows 7 installer ISO image with software installed and configured?
For example I install a clean Windows, configure it, install some necessary software etc. and I make ...
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From GRUB2, boot an ISO in an LVM2 logical volume
tl;dr - Is it possible to boot from a .iso file that is located in an unencrypted lmv2 logical volume? How?
I'm trying to set this up in a VirtualBox VM before I do it for real with my laptop. I have ...
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Debian 9: su command not working
I have just set up a new PC with a fresh debian 9.0.1 iso. The system is running fine but the su command does not work.
user@debian:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
I reinstall system ...
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what is the difference between the usb booting mechanism and optical disk booting mechanism?
Many distributions of linux/bsd have separate usb and dvd images and writing the dvd image doesn't seem to work. What is fundamentally different between these two mechanisms?
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batch files (.bat)... what does set game=%1% mean? This batch file isn't working correctly
This batch file is supposed to assign a disc image file's path to the variable "game" then mount that image with a program call Daemon Tool's. Then a program called SSF is supposed to load the mounted ...
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Download the earlier iso images
I would like to download the earlier iso files of the Debian. However, the official website is not offering those versions.
What I can do to download the earlier versions?
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Install Debian from ISO of install CD without burning a CD or using a USB drive
I want to install Debian to an empty partition of my computer. The computer is already running Debian on a different partition and has GRUB2 installed. I downloaded the CD image from here. I then ...
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How to install VM from ISO?
I prepared pool, volume and installation ISO, want to install headless VM using console. Here's my command:
virt-install -n myvm -r 2048 --disk path=/home/username/virtpools/mydisk.img
--location /...
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How to prepare custom Ubuntu image on Windows?
I would like to prepare Ubuntu bootable ISO image so I can boot it from USB pendrive. I want to the image to contain also some additional software, e.g., VLC for playing movies.
Can I prepare such ...
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DVD Writing - Multiple sessions on original Boot DVD - Boot Failure
I downloaded LUbuntu ISO from the official site and using Nero 2017 created a bootable DVD (Session 1 ) on Windows 7 PC. I however did not ‘Finalize’ the DVD. So there was about 3 GB free space on it. ...
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Epson pp-100II Printer sending an ISO file to the printer using JDF
I am currently trying to burn an ISO file to a CD using an Epson pp-100II Printer/Burner. I an trying to utalize the TDBridge and send a Job Discription File(JDF) and give it a Format type of ...
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How can I check whether an ISO image is bootable?
On Windows, how can I check whether an ISO image is bootable, without writing it to a DVD or running it on virtual machine?
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Acronis Bootable Media seems to have no file system, yet boots successfully in VM but not on bare metal
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One of my duties requires having a variety of computers with a series of preconfigured software suites available for use on fairly short notice. These computers have dissimilar hardware, ...
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Boot ISO image with Kaspersky antivirus via Grub
I have difficulties when trying to boot ISO image provided by Kasperky. I have tried two options:
A. Boot by loading kernel:
menuentry "Kaspersky Rescue" {
# Taken from http://rescuedisk....
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Windows 10 on USB
I've been trying to install Windows 10 onto an external SSD this tutorial as well as ISO to USB and neither have worked. For the tutorial, the files on the drive are what you'd expect to see on a ...
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built a Debian live USB
I'm trying to create debian live USB, in order to migrate from Ubuntu to Debian (I want ot try it before).
I downloaded the iso
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/...
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How to make bootable Windows 10 install USB on Vista
I have a Windows Vista laptop that I want to upgrade to Windows 10. I went to the Windows 10 download page (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) and I followed the instruction ...
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What does ISO (as in the disk image format) stand for? [duplicate]
Just a question for curiosity's sake; what do the letters ISO stand for?
I know that ISO files follow ISO-9660, the ISO in which stands for International Standards Organisation, but a lot of file ...
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Which level of compression should I use a .iso file [duplicate]
I have an .iso file on my hard drive (on a windows 8 pc) and it is rather large (around 16 GB). I was trying to compress it (using 7-zip) so it could fit on a DVD-R. But when it finished compressing ...
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How should a CD RW be formatted to install an OS
I have the windows 10 media creation tool as an ISO on my desktop. I insert a CD RW into my pc, and I am prompted to format it for first time use. I have 2 options to format.
The "Which should I ...
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Windows Recovery ISO image
My windows 10 installation has broken and won't get past boot sequence. I want to try and do a system restore.
I could download the ISO from microsoft and load onto a usb but I don't have a usb drive ...
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Windows Driver Kit 8.1 standalone
I have been using Windows Driver Kit 7.1 (WDK).
Now I would like to upgrade to
Windows Driver Kit 8.1.
However I can only find exe installer, and I am looking for the
ISO / standalone / offline ...
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How to make a bootable windows 7 USB (UEFI)
I have been banging my head against the wall for weeks with this problem.
The Problem: I have ubuntu installed on my laptop and I want to dual boot with windows.
Background:
I'm trying to install ...
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Difference between base.wim and boot.wim
I'm trying to build a recovery ISO so I can expand it to a different computer, however I have 2 .wim files: base.wim and boot.wim.
base.wim is 10 GB while boot.wim is only 146 MB.
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How come monitoring the status of a write to USB isn't reliable?
I write ISO files to USB thumb drives a lot, and I'm trying to find a way to monitor the status of a write. Googling this, I have found a bunch of solutions, including pv, dcfldd and the USR1 signal ...
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Can I use DVD+R to install an OS? (as opposed to DVD-R)
I've been trying (since I have a pack of 100 DVD+Rs) to burn Windows 10 to one and install it on my laptop. However, whenever I try, it just boots as normal and doesn't consider the DVD ROM a boot ...
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windows ISO file to use with VirtualBox [closed]
I read here on superuser.com that windows XP ISO files are not generally available for downloads from legitimate sources. What version of Windows can I use then, to mount as an ISO file with ...
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Computer not booting from DVD
I have a dell precision t3500 with windows 7 and am currently trying to dual-boot ubuntu Linux 16.04.3 from a DVD. However, the computer won't recognize it during boot-up and automatically goes to ...
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Accidentally formated external hard drive (2TB) with bootable UBUNTU iso (v.17.04, 64bit,1,5GB), how can I recover my data? [duplicate]
So there's the problem: I wanted to create a bootable USB from an ISO image BUT I accidentally I did that one on my external hard disks instead of the usb.
Now that drive is 2TB and it was full of ...
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Authoring bootable ISO file
I find the variety of ISO-to-USB "burning" tools a bit baffling. Each seems to have its own slightly different approach to the problem, which vary from more of a DD-style direct copy (which wipes any ...
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Does the Windows 10 ISO have a EI.CFG file for changing the edition?
The ISO image of both Windows 7 and Windows 8 had a file ei.cfg that could be modified to allow a user to install any edition of Windows.
Since I am going to install the Windows 10 operating system ...
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Pen-drive got corrupted after making it bootable
One of my friends windows got corrupted. So, I downloaded the PowerISO and Windows 7 iso. By using PowerISO I made it bootable with adding Windows 7 to it. And he successfully installed Windows but ...
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Can an ISO used with VirtualBox damage my PC?
I understand the concept of a virtual machine is that any malicious software run on the guest OS cannot affect the host OS, but if the ISO file itself contains some sort of virus, could it damage my ...
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How to make bootable command prompt in USB ? (cmd.iso)
I like to run command prompt or batch file in usb pendrive like Bootable os.
I had a file file.bat , which contains,
net user %username% reset password
i want to run without getting into windows OS....
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Generated Windows 10 Wim from Hyper-V has default playback device set to headphones
I have generated a WIM from a Hyper-V VM.
After deploying the WIM I noticed the default playback device is set to 'headphones'.
Is there a way I can prevent this from happening? Is there anything I ...
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How can i make 2 partitions on my USB Stick and put ISOs in them?
Can i make 2 partitions and put 2 ISOs on them so when i boot into BIOS it says something like USB(1) for first partition and USB(2) for second?
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create bootle disk copy of existing windows installation
I have a fresh install of Windows will all my software nicely setup. I want to create a bootable ssd and copy the boot drive to it so I can boot from it later if I need to reinstall windows - as I ...
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How to clone a domain connected PC to another machine
I was given a PC at work that's configured for the company's domain and VPN with Windows 10.
I prefer using Linux, so using UEFI I shrunk the Windows partition and installed Linux along side and ...
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