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Burning a CD ISO to a blank DVD?

Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
I volunteered to help a friend fix his computer, but it was really fubared on the OS side. The original builder of the system installed a bootleg XP Pro, which was loaded down with so much spyware and other crap it literally took 20 minutes to boot up. NAV refused to install. Adaware failed to remove the spyware/malware/etc. There's no way I dare plug this machine onto my network to update Adaware or DL Windows Defender.

Since he told me there was nothing he wanted to save on the machine's 30GB hdd, I decided to simply nuke the partition and start from scratch. I have several linux CD ISOs DLed that i keep on hand, including Zenwalk and Ubuntu.

Here's the problem though. I'm currently moving into a new apartment and I've already taken a great deal of my stuff over there, including all my blank CDs. All I have are several blank DVDs. Would burning a CD ISO onto a DVD even work? I really don't want to drive to the new place simply to grab some blank CDs.

On the plus side, there's not a real rush to get this thing working, so I've got time to futz with it. 🙂

General specs for the curious, don't apply to the situation though.
XP1700
1GB RAM
30GB hdd
Asus A7V333 mobo
 
yeah, it will retain the booting info just like the CD, as long as you don't (of course) literally put an image file on the DVD.

DVDs aren't that different man, but your friend better have a dvdrom to read it, of course.

if for any reason it doesn't work, then the possibilitys would include, his computer has shoddy boot from CD support, or you somehow lost the boot info when you made the image to burn on the DVD.
 
Originally posted by: nova2
yeah, it will retain the booting info just like the CD, as long as you don't (of course) literally put an ISO file on the DVD.

DVDs aren't that different man, but your friend better have a dvdrom to read it, of course.
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The machine has two DVDROM drives.
 
Yes, what nova2 said. Just make sure you burn it AS an ISO image, not as a DATA DVD with the ISO image copied into it.

And you should be good to go.





KS
 
Well, that should save me some time.

I could also use his system as a test bed for Vista32 Beta2, never could get it to work on my desktop.
 
If your friend is too noobish to keep his computer running correctly, you should probably keep him with Windows. Also, I wouldn't bother with Vista since it takes 20GB of hard drive space.
 
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