burning - Can I burn a small dvd iso to a cd in Windows 7?

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07
2014-04

Joel Coehoorn

I have an ISO image downloaded from MSDN (Expression Studio 4) that is listed as for a DVD. The image is only 284MB. Can I burn this to a CD instead, using the software built in to Windows 7, or will something in the file format tie it to a dvd?

Answers

William Hilsum

If you just double click the ISO file (*), it should open with Windows Disk Image Burner, this utility will allow you to burn the ISO file to external media.

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(*) If you have installed any ISO handling utilities, right click and choose Open With then select Windows Disk Image Burner.

Personally though, I like use Imgburn (available on Ninite) for burning.

Anyway, whatever you use, if the actual ISO file is under 700MB, you should have no problem burning to a disk.

Lastly, if it is for the machine you are on, consider using a disk mounting program such as Slysoft Virtual Clonedrive - it both saves disks and is much faster!

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Bruce McLeod

If the image is an ISO, most, if not all major commercial software can handle burning the image such as Nero or imgBurn on a PC or Toast or Disk Utitliy on a Mac.

As you are talking Fedora, you apparently can just Select DVD ISO image in file browser and and do a right mouse click to open "with CD/DVD Creator", the set your write speed. Full steps are here

As to the specifics of the question of fitting a CD image onto a larger DVD disk. Yes it works no problem, you just waste the remaining space.

joe

Short Answer : YES

Long Answer : Technically isn't an iso image file burnable onto just about any type of optical media, even blu-ray? it just is kind of a waste, burning a cd image on a dvd

It shouldn't be that much different. But did you select a DVD project, or a CD project? They are different in Nero express. If you have started a DVD project, I don't think it should ask for a CD. I am not a pro with Nero, though :-) and fellow these steps

if you CAN use NERO. its the best you know.

open NERO BURNING ROM. (NOT NERO EXPRESS). 

click on ISO.

change nothing.

click on "OPEN"

select the ISO file, the file you want to burn to disc.

Or You any one of these buners http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm

Diago

As long as the medium is writeable and has enough space for the ISO it can be done. However practically it does not make much sense.

Windows 7 allows direct writing of ISO. I personally use ImgBurn.

Corporate Geek

Regarding Windows 7 & the possibility to burn and ISO file directly from it, here you have a tutorial showing you how to do this: Burning ISO Or IMG Disk Images In Windows 7

Justin Goldberg

Does udf versus the iso9660 filesystem make a difference? I think that's what the original poster is asking.

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