gHacks technology news » burn iso http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 ISO Creator http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/08/iso-creator/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/08/iso-creator/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:38:59 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8164 Yesterday we covered a software program that was able to mount up to 20 ISO images on a computer system. Lee Mathews over at the Download Squad mentioned a tool on the same day that could be used to create ISO images. ISO Creator, the name of the application, can be used to create ISO images from files or folders of the computer’s hard drive.

The benefits of creating ISO images and mounting them in Windows might outweigh the negative aspects. The main benefit is file management. Instead of having many folders and files scattered around the hard drive there is only one ISO file containing all the files. It’s not a difference speed wise either because the files are still located on the computer’s hard drive. The only negative aspect of this procedure is the fact that no new files can be added to the ISO image. The user would have to copy all files back to the computer, add the new ones and create a new ISO image.

The Free ISO Creator makes use of an easy to use interface that basically concentrates on adding files and folders using a file browser. It is possible to set a size limit for the ISO image. The three default sizes 700 MB, 4.5 GB and 8.0 GB are available as well as an option to create a custom sized ISO image which can be easily mounted as well.

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A few additional options like creating a bootable image or selecting a different file system for the ISO are available. Conversion of the files usually does not take longer than a few seconds depending on the size they occupy on the hard drive and some additional parameters like the hard drive’s speed.

The ISO images can be mounted or burned to CD or DVD afterwards.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/08/iso-creator/feed/ 4 Burn Image Files with ImgBurn http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/29/burn-image-files-with-imgburn/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/29/burn-image-files-with-imgburn/#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 15:55:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/29/burn-image-files-with-imgburn/ If you are looking for a versatile CD and DVD burning software that can be freely downloaded and that is supporting most known image formats you should take a closer look at ImgBurn. The program can either read a disc to an image file, build an image from files and folders or burn an image file from your hard drive to a new blank media.

ImgBurn supports, among others, the image formats iso, bin, nrg, mds and img which should be enough to burn most images that are out there. More exotic formats are also supported as well as all operating systems from Microsoft from Windows 95 to Windows Vista.

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I personally like ImgBurn because of it’s small size (only 1.5 megabytes), the ease of use and the support for all of the mentioned formats. Advanced users will appreciate all the options such as booktypes and bitsettings that ImgBurn offers.

It also offers the ability to queue images which is a feature that is missing in many popular CD and DVD burning programs such as Nero.

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