MSDN ISOs are Bootable???

[MSDN]

MSDN FAQs say they are, but I can't get a box to boot with the Windows 2003
R2 SP2 ISO.

I try dvdburn.exe per the FAQs and it only pukes this out:

"Media type: Unknown Media Type"
Media is unknown type, unsupported, or there is no media in the drive.

These have no problem with the DVD or ISO: XP's DVD writer, Virtual CD-ROM
Control Panel and Magic ISO Maker (the latter says the ISO is bootable).
The first is what I used to write the ISO to DVD, perahps it didn't make it
bootable (per some image header info)????

 

[MSDN]

It appears I need third-party software to use my MSDN ISOs.

- XP's DVD copier doesn't make the ISO bootable after copying it.
- dvdburn.exe just blows up w/ errors.

So, does that leave an MSDN customer with the requirement to have to
to third-parties just to use our ISOs???

 

[Jeff Gaines]

It appears I need third-party software to use my MSDN ISOs.

- XP's DVD copier doesn't make the ISO bootable after copying it.
- dvdburn.exe just blows up w/ errors.

So, does that leave an MSDN customer with the requirement to have to
to third-parties just to use our ISOs???

You shouldn't copy it, that's a waste of time. You need to burn an image
of it - imgburn is free and will do it for you.

 

[PvdG42]

MSDN FAQs say they are, but I can't get a box to boot with the Windows
2003 R2 SP2 ISO.

I try dvdburn.exe per the FAQs and it only pukes this out:

"Media type: Unknown Media Type"
Media is unknown type, unsupported, or there is no media in the drive.

These have no problem with the DVD or ISO: XP's DVD writer, Virtual CD-ROM
Control Panel and Magic ISO Maker (the latter says the ISO is bootable).
The first is what I used to write the ISO to DVD, perahps it didn't make
it bootable (per some image header info)????

Here's some information that may be helpful to you...

http://www.rose.edu/faculty/pvan/ISO.htm

 

[Wesley Peace]

By default, an iso file is not readably by Windows. You've got two options.
Find a utility to mount the ISO file, a virtual CD drive or burn the file to
a CD/DVD.

Two possible options, MagicISO to mount the CD
http://www.magiciso.com

ISORecorder can be used to either create or burn the ISO image to a CD/DVD.
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/

 

[MSDN]

my point exactly, a need for third-party software to use Microsoft MSDN iso
distros.

something's just not quite right about that.

i tried dvdburn, and it err's out trying to recognize my DVD (I *think*.
The over-generalized err msg that is next-to-useless).

Shouldn't Microsoft provide the means to use its own distros?

 

[Wesley Peace]

I'm not sure if I totally agree. There are numerous tools out there that
will both read and write ISO files. MS has a tendency to provide core
functionality in the O/S and leave little things like this to the
third-party application developers.

For example Roxio in their product supports this.

MS also encourages it's employees to create some of these tools which may
appear in a powertoys distribution. There is in fact a ISO mounting tool
available from MS which you will have to search to find "virtualsys" I
believe it is called.

Vista does support some limited reading of ISO files, but quite frankly, I
prefer the third-party tools. I get more functionality from them.