MSDN ISOs are Bootable???

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MSDN FAQs say they are, but I can't get a box to boot with the Windows 2003
R2 SP2 ISO.

I try dvdburn.exe per the FAQs and it only pukes this out:

"Media type: Unknown Media Type"
Media is unknown type, unsupported, or there is no media in the drive.

These have no problem with the DVD or ISO: XP's DVD writer, Virtual CD-ROM
Control Panel and Magic ISO Maker (the latter says the ISO is bootable).
The first is what I used to write the ISO to DVD, perahps it didn't make it
bootable (per some image header info)????
 
It appears I need third-party software to use my MSDN ISOs.

- XP's DVD copier doesn't make the ISO bootable after copying it.
- dvdburn.exe just blows up w/ errors.

So, does that leave an MSDN customer with the requirement to have to
to third-parties just to use our ISOs???
 
It appears I need third-party software to use my MSDN ISOs.

- XP's DVD copier doesn't make the ISO bootable after copying it.
- dvdburn.exe just blows up w/ errors.

So, does that leave an MSDN customer with the requirement to have to
to third-parties just to use our ISOs???
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You shouldn't copy it, that's a waste of time. You need to burn an image
of it - imgburn is free and will do it for you.
 
MSDN said:
MSDN FAQs say they are, but I can't get a box to boot with the Windows
2003 R2 SP2 ISO.

I try dvdburn.exe per the FAQs and it only pukes this out:

"Media type: Unknown Media Type"
Media is unknown type, unsupported, or there is no media in the drive.

These have no problem with the DVD or ISO: XP's DVD writer, Virtual CD-ROM
Control Panel and Magic ISO Maker (the latter says the ISO is bootable).
The first is what I used to write the ISO to DVD, perahps it didn't make
it bootable (per some image header info)????
Click to expand...
Here's some information that may be helpful to you...

http://www.rose.edu/faculty/pvan/ISO.htm
 
my point exactly, a need for third-party software to use Microsoft MSDN iso
distros.

something's just not quite right about that.

i tried dvdburn, and it err's out trying to recognize my DVD (I *think*.
The over-generalized err msg that is next-to-useless).

Shouldn't Microsoft provide the means to use its own distros?
 
I'm not sure if I totally agree. There are numerous tools out there that
will both read and write ISO files. MS has a tendency to provide core
functionality in the O/S and leave little things like this to the
third-party application developers.

For example Roxio in their product supports this.

MS also encourages it's employees to create some of these tools which may
appear in a powertoys distribution. There is in fact a ISO mounting tool
available from MS which you will have to search to find "virtualsys" I
believe it is called.

Vista does support some limited reading of ISO files, but quite frankly, I
prefer the third-party tools. I get more functionality from them.
 
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