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whats an ISO?
Name: leftcoastpunk21 Date: August 8, 2006 at 19:48:15 Pacific OS: winxp mde CPU/Ram: p4/1gh Product: dell
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hey guys?
hope i can learn something new from ppl more knowledge about pcs than me.
whats is an ISO?and what are the advantages?
please i am after a no-bull simple explanation,i beleieve in keeping things simple
Name: Gunbard Date: August 8, 2006 at 19:55:55 Pacific
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An .ISO file is an image of a CD/DVD. It contains the files that are on that CD or DVD. The advantage is that an ISO is only one file and makes it easy to burn to another CD/DVD.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: August 8, 2006 at 19:56:55 Pacific
Name: leftcoastpunk21 Date: August 8, 2006 at 20:26:25 Pacific
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hell yes,well explained gunbard,what are good free tools for this,nero have this feature?are they reliable?
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Response Number 4
Name: StuartS Date: August 8, 2006 at 20:29:36 Pacific
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You missed one of that list Sabertooth. ISO in this context stand for International Standards Organisation.
It is a standard for writing CDs that is not OS dependant so that CDs can be read in a variety of different machines. To give it its full tittle is it ISO 9660. It is in fact a file system just like FAT32 or NTFS is.
Stuart
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Response Number 5
Name: dj3642 Date: August 9, 2006 at 10:14:23 Pacific
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i have heard of people making an ISO of their OS on their PC.. .. if yo do this. does this ISO create an entire image of that partition. or just the OS and if just the OS?? does it include allupdates as such so yo dont have to download them again?/
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Response Number 6
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: August 9, 2006 at 14:23:56 Pacific
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You do not make an ISO of your hard drive. You make an image. And in a sense an ISO is just an image of a CD/DVD in ISO format as Stuart explains. If you make an image of your partition is compresses all data on that partition to a single file. If you system gets corrupted you can then simply restore the image.
With a CD/DVD ISO (image) you can "mount" the image so that it looks like the CD/DVD is inserted into a virtual drive on your computer.
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