Laptop does recognize Vista ISO

[yadda]

Any ideas???

I have a Compaq EVO N620C laptop and it definitely does have a DVD drive but when I put a Vista ISO in it doesn't boot from it nor does it see this DVD within XP on this laptop.

This laptop does recognize other DVDs. Is there something special about a Vista ISO???

Thanks
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[Underclocked]

How did you burn it? Is it simply an iso file on the dvd?

Need to burn from image and select iso as source.

 

[yadda]

This ISO Vista DVD is recognized fine by my other 2 desktop PCs.

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[corkyg]

You don't boot from an ISO file. You burn a disk from it and then boot from the disk.

 

[yadda]

Sorry Corky you are right....

I am able to from this ISO and read the files from my other 2 computers. Are there any variations???

I know I am reaching.

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[corkyg]

When you create an ISO file, it is only one, single file. There is nothing to read except its own name. Example . . . I make an ISO file of a movie with DVD Shrink. It has a "name.ISO" - that's it - nothing else. If I had an ISO file of VISTA, it would probably be "vista.iso."

If you could read other files, it was probably not an ISO file, but something else. Are you talking about the Microsoft DVDs for Vista?

If you burn a disk from that ISO file, then on the resulting disk, you will have all of the files and be able to read them with any computer file manager.

 

[drag]

In other words..

A 'iso' file is a disk image file. That is it's a file that is a bit by bit copy of a cdrom.

To make a iso file you don't copy the information off of a cdrom.. You copy the entire cdrom into a file, bit by bit.

It's probably named .iso because the file system used by cdroms is called 'iso9660' (as opposed to Window's native file system called 'ntfs'.)

It's about the same thing as when you use Norton's Ghost to image a harddrive for a backup. Your copying the entire harddrive bit by bit, not just the files on that drive. Sort of like making digital a photograph of that harddrive.

Well so you need a application that can properly handle a iso image. Usually there is a dialog or something were you select 'burn as a iso image' or something like that. You have to do that specially instead of just copying the file to a cdrom like you normally would.

I don't know about Vista, but that's what they normally do for Linux install cdroms.

After you burn the iso image correctly to a cdrom then you should be able to open up that cdrom and see a whole bunch of different files on it.

 

[hans030390]

So wait, what are we trying to do? Install Vista on a laptop? You could mount it with Daemon tools...that worked for me (burning it always screwed it up), but you have to get the ISO to your laptop if its not already there (I would recommend an external hard drive or something).