Burn CD ISO to DVD

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I need to create a bootable disk to reset admin account password of a
locked out XP PC. This site offers a registry editor tool-
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
The tool offered on the sire is an CD ISO image that I have
downloaded. I unsuccessfully tried to burn the ISO image to a DVD+R .
My questions is it possible to burn a CD ISO to a DVD+R?
If not what are my options, do I need to buy a CD+R to burn the ISO?

Thank you

Ken
 
There is no such thing as a CD+R disc. The + and - designations are only
meaningful for DVD media.

Buy a small pack of CD-R discs and use one to create your rescue disc..
 
Ken said:
I need to create a bootable disk to reset admin account password of a
locked out XP PC. This site offers a registry editor tool-
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
The tool offered on the sire is an CD ISO image that I have
downloaded. I unsuccessfully tried to burn the ISO image to a DVD+R .
My questions is it possible to burn a CD ISO to a DVD+R?
If not what are my options, do I need to buy a CD+R to burn the ISO?

Thank you

Ken
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I may be wrong but ISO's, since they are an image of a cd or dvd, then
they have to be burned to whichever they were for. So a cd can't burn a
DVD. I might be wrong, but.

If they gave you a ISO, its probably bootable on it own. Usually a
small utility would be sent as a zip or rar and not an ISO. ISO's are
more commonly used to include complex boot information that is somewhat
useless in a zip.

Have you tried to boot the CD you burned with the ISO?
That would be the test I would try.
 
ISO images are not bootable - not all CD/DVD programs will create a
bootable CD/DVD from an ISO image - they only "recopy" the ISO file. Usually
if your CD/DVD utility creates a bootable disk, clicking on the ISO file
runs the utility.

Check the file extensions - if they are the same on your CD/DVD as the ISO
file a bootable disk was not created

The file size determines whether it will be a bootable CD or DVD. It is
99.95% pure that a recovery utility is a Linux distribution
 
I may be wrong but ISO's, since they are an image of a cd or dvd, then
they have to be burned to whichever they were for.  So a cd can't burn a
DVD.   I might be wrong, but.

If they gave you a ISO, its probably bootable on it own.   Usually a
small utility would be sent as a zip or rar and not an ISO. ISO's are
more commonly used to include complex boot information that is somewhat
useless in a zip.

Have you tried to boot the CD you burned with the ISO?
That would be the test I would try.
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The web site provides a CD ISO image. As I understand, the ISO image
when burned to a CD/dvd does not merely result in a copy of the ISO
file on to the CD/DVD but instead the software copies over to media
individual files containted in the ISO image. I did copy the ISO image
to a DVD and tried to boot using this disk but that didn't work.
I bought a pack of CD-R but my DVD writer that writes to DVD-R refuses
to write to a CD..
 
Ken said:
I need to create a bootable disk to reset admin account password of a
locked out XP PC. This site offers a registry editor tool-
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
The tool offered on the sire is an CD ISO image that I have
downloaded. I unsuccessfully tried to burn the ISO image to a DVD+R .
My questions is it possible to burn a CD ISO to a DVD+R?
If not what are my options, do I need to buy a CD+R to burn the ISO?

Thank you

Ken
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Hello,
You need to use a software that burns .ISO as bootable.
http://www.protectedsoft.com/
Has both a free one and pay one.
Disc type should not matter.
I use the free "Final Burner", have had no problems.
Hope this works for you.
take care.
beamish.
 
Jerry said:
According to these guys: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/ISO_image.html and
ISO image can burn a CD or DVD.
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The link is saying an ISO is a CD or DVD. And that's right. But its
not both. Since its a image of the platter, containing sector by sector
items and boot partition etc etc, it thus must be burned to the same
media to make it work. You could not get an ISO of a floppy and put it
on a CD. I think they are just using OR meaning whichever you use.

Either way (Ken) you need to burn with something like imgburn if you
don't have a burning software. Nero does it too, but just remember you
want to burn an image, not data.
 
Big Al said:
The link is saying an ISO is a CD or DVD. And that's right. But its not
both. Since its a image of the platter, containing sector by sector items
and boot partition etc etc, it thus must be burned to the same media to
make it work. You could not get an ISO of a floppy and put it on a CD.
I think they are just using OR meaning whichever you use.

Either way (Ken) you need to burn with something like imgburn if you don't
have a burning software. Nero does it too, but just remember you want to
burn an image, not data.
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"Big Al", Jerry, et al...
The other day I downloaded the SP3 .iso file and using Nero 8 burned the
program to my CD/R. Nothing unusual about that, of course, except
inadvertently I had inserted a DVD/RW disk. Nero burned it without any
problem. Just thought I'd mention this.
Anna
 
Anna said:
"Big Al", Jerry, et al...
The other day I downloaded the SP3 .iso file and using Nero 8 burned the
program to my CD/R. Nothing unusual about that, of course, except
inadvertently I had inserted a DVD/RW disk. Nero burned it without any
problem. Just thought I'd mention this.
Anna
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If you got directories and data files, then the proof is in the pudding
as they say. I've just never pushed it. And of course, why consume a
more expensive dvd for a less expensive cd.

I know, it was late last night and you were half asleep :-)
 
According to these guys:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/ISO_image.html and ISO image can burn
a CD or DVD.
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An "ISO image" doesn't "burn" to anything. The user burns it to CD or
DVD or, in other words, copies the ISO file to a CD or DVD. It doesn't
matter!
Proper program must be used to CREATE the files contained IN the ISO
and put them wherever they have to go, usually a hard drive, but often a
CD or DVD also; either, as long as it all fits.
You don't RUN the ISO. It has to be processed first, in order to
BECOME runnable files!
An ISO isn't necessarily an image either. May I suggest a trip over
to wikipedia and read up on the subject? You will all learn a lot, I
think.
 
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