How to Use a .ISO File

[Sam]

I have down loaded a software program that has an .iso extension (Vexira
Antivirus Rescue Disk). According to the instructions on the web site, you
are supposed to double click on the .iso file and this will automatically
launch the CD burner and burn the file to the CD, and then the program will
be ready to operate. When I tried this, I got a dialog box indicating that
the file cannot be opened and it has an option for me to select a program to
open the file. I am not at all familiar with the .iso extension and so
would appreciate any help in this regard. I should note that I have a Dell
Dimension 8200 computer with windows XP Pro, Gear DVD, and a Sony DRU 510A
burner. Thanks, Sam.

 

[devil_satan2003]

I have down loaded a software program that has an .iso extension (Vexira
Antivirus Rescue Disk). According to the instructions on the web site, you
are supposed to double click on the .iso file and this will automatically
launch the CD burner and burn the file to the CD, and then the program will
be ready to operate. When I tried this, I got a dialog box indicating that
the file cannot be opened and it has an option for me to select a program to
open the file. I am not at all familiar with the .iso extension and so
would appreciate any help in this regard. I should note that I have a Dell
Dimension 8200 computer with windows XP Pro, Gear DVD, and a Sony DRU 510A
burner. Thanks, Sam.

i am assuming that you do have some cd burning software such as Nero
installed on your computer as you have a DVD writer. If so you can burn
the iso straight to the cd using the Burn Image option within Nero.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

An .iso file is a CD image. Most CD writing programs can handle them, but
the native WinXP burner cannot. If you are using just that, get this add-on
from Alex Feinman that will give it that capability:

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

Otherwise, open your burning software, and check its help files for how to
use an image file to create a new CD.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Sam]

Bob, many thanks for the explanation. I need to check very closely my Gear
DVD program and see if it has the same feature as the ECDC program. I
checked the program briefly this morning but did not see anything available.
Maybe the best way to go is the ISOBUSTER. Thanks again, have a good
weekend, Sam.

 

[Steve]

Did you know that WinZip and WinRar can open .ISO files?

 

[Trent©]

Did you know that WinZip and WinRar can open .ISO files?

Another great tip, Steve...thanks.


Hope ya'll have a nice weekend...

Trent


Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

 

[Trent©]

Thanks very much for your reply. As I am thinking about this situation, my
initial question was not too clear. I should have asked: how can I turn
this rescuedisk.iso file into a usual/workable software program. The .iso
file is an antivirus program that can be used to scan your computer from a
CD in case the computer cannot be booted up.

Within whatever burner software you want to use, Sam, pick the option
to CREATE a new CD. You should then later have the option of picking
the SOURCE for the new CD creation. Choose image file...and you
should also get the option to use an .iso file as the source/image
file.

I manually burned this .iso file to a CD using the Gear DVD program and all
it did was just to copy the .iso file from my hard drive to the CD.

That's all a general BURN does, Sam...COPIES from one location (hard
drive, in this case) to another...the cd. What you want to do in your
situation is CREATE...create a bootable cd.

If I
understand it correctly, what is needed is for the .iso file to be changed
in a way that will enable me to access and use the software program that is
in the .iso file.

Exactly. That's what the 'create' option does. It automatically
extracts the .iso file (the .iso file is actually a compressed file
composed of usually many files) to the cd...and makes it bootable...if
the source for the .iso was in fact bootable.

I suspect I am missing something very obvious in this
situation, sorry for the newbie questions. Thanks, Sam.

Furgit about it! We've all been there, Sam. We're always glad to
help.

One caveat...

SOMETIMES, if you simply extract an .iso and then burn (copy) those
files to a cd, the cd will not be bootable...if indeed it was bootable
from the source. So its usually a better idea to CREATE the cd from
the .iso file...rather than extract the files first and then burn
these to the cd.

A program called Clone CD is very good for creating a bootable
(identical) image file.

Yer learnin'...good luck.


Hope ya'll have a nice weekend...

Trent


Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

 

[David]

The ISO file can *not* be used directly. it must be
burned to a CD by a program that knows it is already an
image of a CD. For example, in Easy CD Creator you would
do this by "record disk from image". When done, you will
see several files on the CD, and none of them will end
in "ISO". However, if you use defualt XP software, it may
simply copy the ISO file, in which case you will see one
file named *.ISO on the CD. You do not want that.

Once you have properly witten the ISO to CD, look for
somehting like a SETUP, INSTALL, or RUN file. Then, run
it.

Also, once properly copied to CD, you could copy the
individual files back to a directory on the hard drive, if
you wished.

If you want to "see" what is inside of the ISO, try
ISOBUSTER form www.isobuster.com.

I use the ISO Power toy..

ISO Recorder Power Toy




Description
ISO Recorder Power Toy is a UI component that allows to use CD-Recording
capabilities of Windows XP® to record ISO images and copy CD to CD – a
piece of functionality missing in Windows XP®

The ISO Recorder itself does not record CDs but instead uses existing OS
features. Some of the interfaces it uses are not fully documented by
Microsoft and as such are subject to change in the future.

This software works on Windows XP only . It was tested with retail build
of Windows XP (Home and Professional)



Download
ISO Recorder can be downloaded at
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder/download.asp

A command-line version (more robust, but with limited functionality) can
be downloaded at http://members.home.net/alexfein/bin/CDRecorder.exe

--

David

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