Adding to an ISO?

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J. P. Gilliver (John)

Various things - in particular backup/restore/cloning things like
Macrium/ATI etc. - produce or include ISO images, often bootable ones.

These often come to less than the size of a CD (in some cases, even less
than one of the little ones).

Obviously it's _possible_ to add to these, but how easy is it? (Are
there utilities out there that make it easier?)

I'm not trying to save on the cost of blanks - even the best quality
ones these days are only pennies (though it's always intrigued me that
the small ones in general cost more than the full size ones!) - but I'd
like to have a single disc with more than one useful thing on, that
could be kept e. g. in a small toolkit. Obviously only one would be
bootable (well, I suppose one could get into boot menus, but I wasn't
going to go that far, since I'm talking about boot-from-cold, not
autorunning).
 
Various things - in particular backup/restore/cloning things like
Macrium/ATI etc. - produce or include ISO images, often bootable ones.

These often come to less than the size of a CD (in some cases, even less
than one of the little ones).

Obviously it's _possible_ to add to these, but how easy is it? (Are
there utilities out there that make it easier?)
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UltraISO (not free!) does that with ease. CD or DVD.
 
DK wrote, On 5/26/2014 12:56 PM:
UltraISO (not free!) does that with ease. CD or DVD.
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I did a Google search for "ultraiso" and visited two of the top hits. By
Acronis AV found ten blocked sites while I tried to visit those sites.
(Probably pointers from the top-level pages.) I immediately ran
Malwarebytes but found nothing bad on my computer. In other words be
careful with the sites advertising this product via Google.

DK, do you have a URL to a legitimate provider of the UltraISO software
and will you please post it in these news groups?

Jeff Barnett
 
Jeff Barnett wrote, On 5/26/2014 1:30 PM:
DK wrote, On 5/26/2014 12:56 PM:

I did a Google search for "ultraiso" and visited two of the top hits. By
Acronis AV found ten blocked sites while I tried to visit those sites.
(Probably pointers from the top-level pages.) I immediately ran
Malwarebytes but found nothing bad on my computer. In other words be
careful with the sites advertising this product via Google.

DK, do you have a URL to a legitimate provider of the UltraISO software
and will you please post it in these news groups?

Jeff Barnett
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WHOOPS - IN THE ABOVE I MEANT ESET NOD#@, NOT ACRONIS.
 
Various things - in particular backup/restore/cloning things like
Macrium/ATI etc. - produce or include ISO images, often bootable ones.

These often come to less than the size of a CD (in some cases, even less
than one of the little ones).

Obviously it's _possible_ to add to these, but how easy is it? (Are
there utilities out there that make it easier?)
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Very easy; for freeware solutions, you can try acetoneISO or ISOmaster.

Jon
 
Obviously it's _possible_ to add to these, but how easy is it? (Are
there utilities out there that make it easier?)
Click to expand...

Many burner software provide multisession burning and using Deep
Burner I have had 12 sessions on a single CD successfully.
Multisession is possible, AFAIK because the CD is not "closed".

In burning an ISO or creating an ISO I am ye to see a utility that
does not close.

The only possibility is open the CD/DVD in the burner software, add
all the files you want and save as a fresh ISO or burn a fresh CD.

If really there is a burner software that ca produce a multi session
bootable CD/DVD I would like to know.
 
Ardent said:
Many burner software provide multisession burning and using Deep
Burner I have had 12 sessions on a single CD successfully.
Multisession is possible, AFAIK because the CD is not "closed".

In burning an ISO or creating an ISO I am ye to see a utility that
does not close.

The only possibility is open the CD/DVD in the burner software, add
all the files you want and save as a fresh ISO or burn a fresh CD.

If really there is a burner software that ca produce a multi session
bootable CD/DVD I would like to know.
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Thanks for responding. I wasn't talking about multisession, only adding
to an ISO _file_: as you say, usually if you have an ISO file, a burner
will only make a closed CD from it. The _usual_ reason for an ISO file
is that you're wanting something bootable, such as a recovery CD. I was
just thinking, sometimes an ISO image is a lot smaller than even a
mini-CD, and it'd be nice to be able to put other things on the CD - not
necessarily bootable or even anything to do with the main content, just
to have handy. I wanted to be able to add them to the ISO file so that I
could burn that to disc and still have the original booting software
work and boot, but also find the other files there if I opened the CD as
normal with Explorer.

Other posters in this thread have kindly made suggestions, several of
which sounded useful; winiso-5.3.zip is a file I've downloaded, though
not played with yet.
 
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