What do I do with a .ISO?

[Guest]

Hello, i Just Downloaded a large 4 disc game off of a website. the file is a .iso. so I was wondering what I am supposed to do with it. I would like to install the game, and also make some copies onto cd's as well. Please be specific, because I have never worked with iso files before. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Shawn" said in news:[email protected]:

Hello, i Just Downloaded a large 4 disc game off of a website. the
file is a .iso. so I was wondering what I am supposed to do with it.
I would like to install the game, and also make some copies onto cd's
as well. Please be specific, because I have never worked with iso
files before. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You use CD burning software to lay that .iso image file onto the CD.
The image file is an exact copy (logically) of what was on the source CD
so your copy CD has the same structure. You'll need something to burn
the .iso image file onto CD-R[W] media, like Ahead Nero or Roxio Easy CD
Creator. If it was truly a 4 disc (meaning four CDs) game then why
didn't you get 4 .iso files, one for each CD? You cannot merge multiple
..iso images onto a CD. The idea is that the file represents an image of
the *entire* CD contents, so you have one .iso file per target CD-R[W].

 

[Guest]

It did download in 4 different files. and do I have to put it on a cdrw? and do I have to have a cdrw burner?

 

[*Vanguard*]

"shawn" said in news[email protected]:

It did download in 4 different files. and do I have to put it on a
cdrw? and do I have to have a cdrw burner?

Well, I assumed the .iso files were for CD images. Could be for
diskette images. Only you would know because from whomever you got
those .iso files would have to tell you for what type media those .iso
images are for. This "game" never told you how to use those .iso files?
Where did you download them from?

 

[Ron Sommer]

CD-R[W] means CD-R or CD-RW.
An iso file will create a byte by byte copy.
This can be done when a bootable disk is needed.
--
Ron Sommer

It did download in 4 different files. and do I have to put it on a cdrw?

and do I have to have a cdrw burner?

 

[Bob Harris]

First, you will a physical CD burner (or DVD burner, since they also burn
CDs). Next you will need some CD-R or CD-RW media of a type/speed
compatible with the burner. (Usually a burner will automatically sense the
media speed and adjust accordingly, to give you the lower of the burner
speed or the media speed. But, some of the original burners, those a 4X or
lower, may not be that smart.) Finally, you will need some third-party CD
burning software. The software that comes with XP can not handle ISO
images. I use Easy CD Creator. Nero should also work. Read their manuals
for details, but the general concept is that you want to use an option like
"record disk form image, meaning the ISO file.

Hello, i Just Downloaded a large 4 disc game off of a website. the file is

a .iso. so I was wondering what I am supposed to do with it. I would like to
install the game, and also make some copies onto cd's as well. Please be
specific, because I have never worked with iso files before. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

 

[Alex Nichol]

It did download in 4 different files. and do I have to put it on a cdrw? and do I have to have a cdrw burner?

You would have to have a CD burner, but I would use CD-R not RW disks.

Use the free program IsoRecorder from
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

Each Iso file is an exact image of the content of one CD - you would use
this to burn each file to a fresh one.