Questions tagged [iso-image]
An image file of an optical disk, such as a CD-ROM or DVD.
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Windows 10 Bootable ISO Install Keeps Failing (0x8007025D)
Update: The problem turned out to actually be the Kexin USB drive. Windows Install worked fine through a newly purchased SanDisk drive. What made this so hard to debug was that the Kexin drive worked ...
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Seemingly random ISO files won't copy to USB HDD
I have had a handful of iso files from different sources; different vendors, custom bootdisks, with entirely different contents, and of varying sizes that simply won't copy to my external HDD. I have ...
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VirtualBox Windows Server 2016 Failed Setup - Media Driver Missing. Possible Corrupted ISO file?
I've been trying to install Windows Server 2016 in Virtual Box for a while now. Although I can't seem to get it to work at all. I install everything normally, using all default settings. I only change ...
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How to generate dev channel Windows 10 insider iso?
I know Microsoft provide a website for downloading them but the builds there aren’t up to date (by several public build numbers behind). For example, the current build number is 21327 and the lastest ...
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How to modify a WinPE iso to also have the ability to install Windows from the WinPE
I want to use an existing WinPE.wim to troubleshoot problems and run Windows' install's setup.exe, with a desktop shortcut linking to it.
Is this as simple as adding a desktop shortcut to folders ...
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elegant way to mount multiple disk images
I have a folder with over 100 dvd .iso disk image files. I would like to mount them all
I can mount them 15 at a time natively to separate drive letters in windows 10 pro, but this is a lot of drive ...
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I need windows 10 1909 ISO file becasue MS only offers 20H2 [duplicate]
I had a running windows 10 17xx, which I installed from the ISO downloaded from MS, more than a year ago.
Windows 10 tried to update to Windows 20H2 (October 2020), but after rebooting, it got stuck ...
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Writing to USB flash drive taking forever, unable to exit program using Ctrl + C
I am trying to write an ISO to a USB drive using the following command:
sudo cp -v Downloads/archlinux-2021.02.01-x86_64.iso /dev/sdb
My flash drive has a blinking red light, which I believe means ...
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Installing an ISO onto a local hard drive?
I just got an old 1997 Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n and I'm trying to figure out how to install an OS on it. Unfortunately, it does not have any USB's to boot from USB, and my previous experiences with ...
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How does a disk image work? Why does Windows fail to mount an image?
I'm having trouble mounting an image file in Windows 10 and I would like to know if my understanding of a disk image is correct. I hope this isn't a silly question and if there is some flaw in my ...
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Comparing ISO image files in Windows 10 or MacOS
I have a number of CDs and DVDs (some RW and some not). Some of these disks contain simple files (such as .txt, .doc, etc) and others contain Dell system drivers, various Windows OS's and so on. I am ...
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How to delay installer exec after a restart until after it's own virtual iso mounts?
I am trying to install software from an ISO image.
Due to lack of persistence of a mounted ISO image after restart in win10, I am using the 3rd party freeware Virtual CloneDrive to provide persistence ...
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Virtual disk, iso file o some kind of superfolder
I lookin for some kind of solution for several needs, It would be wonderful if I find one for everything, or at least several.
My needs:
I want to make backups to my linux servers from another linux ...
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How to Install Minimal Windows 10 TO a Flash Drive
Is there a free method to strip down all the unnecessary Windows 10 features before installation and to end up with a very lean ISO file, and then proceed to install said ISO on a USB Flash Drive?
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Is it possible to add a partition table to an existing AIX ISO?
I've followed this tutorial to run an AIX on an x86 system: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/
One element of the tutorial is to get an AIX system ISO to install the ...
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Manually create recovery iso (MSI)
I would like to restore my MSI laptop to factory settings using the F3 menu, but the recover partition(BIOS_RVY) that is in the HDD that was in my laptop, is now replaced by another HDD, so I have my ...
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How VMware workstation determines which OS is there in the iso?
How VMware workstation determines which OS is there in the iso ?? More specifically - what files does it look for ??
A little explanation -
When Solus Budgie iso is selected, VMware detects it as ...
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How to make an ISO file from bzImage and initramfs
I have a bzImage file and initramfs file. When I run qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel bzImage -initrd initramfs it works fine, but I need an ISO file.
How can I make an ISO file from those?
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Mount ISO from windows startup repair menu
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I have been experiencing some startup issues on my windows system recently and it has led to my pc not booting up at all. It just shows the windows logo and gets stuck. I reboot the pc and ...
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How can I make an EXT4 ISO either from a bootable drive or from ISO9660?
I really need to be able to do at least one of two things:
Convert an ISO file which is in the ISO9660 format to an ISO that uses the EXT4 format.
Transform a bootable drive which is in EXT4 into an ...
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Extract udf (latest version) blu-ray iso?
How can I extract udf blu-ray iso with fast speed? It seems like rar and 7z can't read the file format. I know that you can mount it and then copy the files, but it's terribly slow for me (10MB/s on a ...
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Booting off an iso file or efi file on an UEFI-enabled computer with windows on it
The Scenario is something like this:
I have an UEFI-Enabled computer with a clean installation of Windows 10 on it. I would like to dualboot it with Android x86 but without using any external usb ...
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How can I get Linux Live Kit to work?
I'm just testing Linux Live Kit to see how to get it to work. I'm doing this while running a Linux Mint 20 with Cinnamon ISO in live mode while in VirtualBox, which is also running on Linux Mint 20. ...
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only 8gb storage on kali linux live on 64gb flash drive
I just got kali Linux Live and put it on my 64Gb flash drive. To install updates these take up to 6Gb of storage. I need your help to solve why I have about only 8Gb of storage on a 64Gb flash drive.
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No Bootable Medium Found only on Windows 7
First of all, I tried to install windows 7 on my Virtualbox following some tutorials and documentation. but I can't seem to find any workaround to my error which is No Bootable Medium Found. I already ...
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Installing Ubuntu-20.04.1 on MacOS Mojave with flash drive
I'm having an issue with downloading Ubuntu 20.04.1 onto my MacOS Mojave. I followed everything directly from the Ubuntu website, but for some reason, the iso file that they have is corrupted and won'...
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Xorriso complaining about symlinks while creating Debian pressed ISO
I'm following the steps to create a Debian preseed ISO here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso. It advises using xorriso to create the final ISO image for EFI systems as ...
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What is the use of Windows for ARM installation disc?
I've seen some Russian putting official Microsoft's Windows for AArch64 ISOs online for download since Windows 10 version 2004.
Let's put legal issues aside, I am curious about the purpose of such ...
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Boot Linux in UEFI from repacked ISO (without writing it correctly)
I tried to unpack an ISO of Ubuntu to USB stick without writing it (i can't use superuser utilities like dd or Rufus). Then i set my USB stick first in UEFI boot priority. I got working GRUB, but when ...
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Is there a way to boot from ISO file in rEFInd Boot Manager?
I am wonder if there is such feature in rEFInd - to run ISO file located on the USB stick. I can not use any superuser utilities such as dd to write an ISO directly. I can only repack it.
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Burn ISO to USB with free space left
From what I tried, when you download for example Tails usb image (.img) and burn it to USB, it will only take space required for the image and will left remaining space free so I can format it and use ...
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Archlinux iso with linux-5.9 kernel
I have built the linux-5.9 kernel using this guide, for the initramfs i have followed the Automated preset metod section.
For the iso I followed this guide, used the releng custom profile (renamed ...
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Why do my Ubuntu 12 and 14 Bittorrent seeds get so many downloads from Taiwan? [closed]
I will often open my Transmission control panel and see that old Ubuntu ISO files that I never removed from seeding are being downloaded. And it is usually from somewhere in Taiwan. These are the old ...
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Boot windows install CD from GRUB: "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD..." loops back to GRUB menu
I am trying to install windows from an installation image that is located on an NTFS partition as described here.
I had to add the UDF module, because otherwise the image just ends up being mounted ...
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No mouse support for any boot cds on my new laptop
I use plenty of boot cds aspart of my work - such as macrium for imaging, and others for partition management and a variety of other multipurpose actions. I recently bought a new laptop branded AVITA ...
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How to mount an ISO onto a drive without using explorer or PowerShell?
I want to mount an ISO onto my drive, however I cannot get into the actual Operating System, it is stuck on Startup Repair.
I have managed to get the ISO onto the drive using xcopy, however I cannot ...
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Windows 10 not booting from usb for fresh install
I have a dell Inspiron 3542 with 8gb memory
I have installed windows 10 up to build 1909 many times from bootable USB using Rufus on my laptop but one day I stopped my laptop while installing windows ...
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Is it recommended to put a custom Windows install or keep the brand's one? [closed]
Heelo everyone,
I've read some thread about that, but I'm still not get a real answer.
I just got an Acer with an I7 8xxx, and a good SSD. The PC is quick, but if it can be better, that better! I'm ...
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unable to burn memtest86.img EFI image to DVD
I looked https://www.memtest86.com/tech_booting-cd-dvd.html
and I downloaded the file they link to there https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-iso.zip
And within it i'm not entirely sure what ...
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I mounted an ISO, but it mounts with 000 permissions, and as a result, I can only access it as root. How can I make it accessible to a normal user?
I mounted an ISO image, and when I tried accessing the mount point, it said "permission denied". I checked with ls -l, and the mount point had d--------- at the beginning, meaning its ...
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ISO image on hard drive?
All instructions I see state "flash drive or DVD"; what about an internal hard drive (e.g. D-drive)? I see D:\ as a "bootable device" in BIOS, so couldn't it install on a formatted ...
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Solaris 10 3/11 download page shows md5 number of iso image but I don't understand the few extra digits written beside md5 number
I've downloaded an iso image of x86 solaris 10 from here but I can't understand the md5 sum given in the download page because beside the main md5 number, there are another number.
Here is the digest.
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How to create a windows 10 complete restore point?
I need to make a complete copy of my windows 10 so that I can get back to exactly how it was at the time of the creation of the backup/snapshot.
By searching the web it seems that the windows restore ...
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How to trigger an event when an ISO is mounted on windows? [closed]
I need to run a windows service when a particular ISO is mounted. I know that an Event Trigger can be defined to do something like this but I couldn't find an event to subscribe to.
How can I detect ...
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Use virtual machine to create preconfigured OS
So I was thinking can I download Ubuntu ISO file and boot it into a virtual machine like Vmware or Virtualbox and then I downloaded/edit/update all the necessary files then make a new ISO file to boot ...
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How to get an old ISO of a game to play music from the CD-ROM when the CD is not inserted
As a kid, I got a free racing ad-game on CD-ROM, from the same company who made Mall Maniacs. As the disc's becoming 20 years old, and the publisher went bust in 2003, it felt mandatory to make an ISO ...
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Create bootable USB for OpenBSD from Ubuntu
I have a very old system using Ubuntu 4.04 with Firefox 2.0. Yes very old. I did not use this for a long time and now I want to install OpenBSD on this system. Firefox can not access to Internet ...
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How does an unattended Windows install decide which partition to install to?
After doing research, I've decided I want to make a unattended, pre-configured Windows 10 ISO for myself, but given I have two partitions (one SSD for the OS, one HDD high capacity low speed storage), ...
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Automate the selection of isolinux boot menu options
I am trying to fully automate the testing of an ISO installer.
The ISO is bootable via ISOLINUX and can automatically install Oracle Linux 6 via Kickstart.
I have several label options in my isolinux....
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Whatever I try, I can't install Windows XP
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Have a pretty modern, but already an old laptop. Some time ago it had Windows 10 x64, which I deleted. Then I installed Ubuntu 20.04. Now I've deleted it as well and want to install Windows XP ...
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