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.
"MSDN" <avidtrober@gmail.comwrote in message
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my point exactly, a need for third-party software to use Microsoft MSDN
iso distros.
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something's just not quite right about that.
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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).
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Shouldn't Microsoft provide the means to use its own distros?
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"Wesley Peace" <WesleyPeace@hotmail.comwrote in message
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>By default, an iso file is not readably by Windows. You've got two
>options. Find a utility to mount the ISO file, a virtual CD drive or burn
>the file to a CD/DVD.
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>Two possible options, MagicISO to mount the CD
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http://www.magiciso.com
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>ISORecorder can be used to either create or burn the ISO image to a
>CD/DVD.
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http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/
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>"MSDN" <avidtrober@gmail.comwrote in message
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>>It appears I need third-party software to use my MSDN ISOs.
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>>- XP's DVD copier doesn't make the ISO bootable after copying it.
>>- dvdburn.exe just blows up w/ errors.
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>>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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>>"MSDN" <avidtrober@gmail.comwrote in message
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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.
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>>>I try dvdburn.exe per the FAQs and it only pukes this out:
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>>>"Media type: Unknown Media Type"
>>>Media is unknown type, unsupported, or there is no media in the drive.
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>>>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)????
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