note to self: always read the fine print
So I wanted to burn an ISO image onto a CD today. My ancient notebook can do this – only I haven’t needed to do more than backup of random files for quite some time. It runs Windows. So I tried to figure out how to burn ISO images in Windows, without requiring expensive software or messing around trying to swipe some software.
Windows can burn CDs, but ISO images? Nope.
After a few helpful suggestions and lots of muttering, I found the ISO recorder power toy which allows precisely this task.
Burnt the images, did the backup job I wanted and now I was curious. Windows really can’t burn ISO images natively? That sounds strange. So I did a bit of investigating and downloaded a real CD burning thingamajig. The first thing it asked was – would you like to burn this image onto DVD media?
And that was how I discovered that the notebook actually posesses a DVD burner – not just a CD-R/RW burner as I had thought for err. almost two years. So, for two years I moaned about not being able to burn DVDs without plugging in an external drive and it turns out I had a burner on the notebook all this time? Of course it’s now pitifully slow and quite likely not of much use. *sigh*
If anyone wants me, I’ll be in that queue over there – waiting to hand in my geek card. kthxbai.
On 04-Apr-07 at 4:15 am,
rastiadu karaya wrote:
Oh how the mighty have fallen
On 04-Apr-07 at 5:40 am,
JL wrote:
Welcome to the World of Microsux! That being said, are you really sure it is a DVD burner and not just an overly optimistic piece of poorly written software?
But seriously, I can’t believe you didn’t notice. That would have been the first thing that caught my eye. Do you have any idea just how much “data” I’ve had to delete over the last year alone because I couldn’t back it up. I have the unfortunate luck to be stuck with a laptop with no upgrade options on its optical drive and a slimline Compaq that requires a half-height optical drive.
Interestingly, this textbox doesn’t appear properly in Opera at certain zoom levels. Zoom in too far and the scroll bar dissapears and the text wrap occurs invisibly to the right of the visible margin. I’ve grabbed a screenie if you want to see.
On 04-Apr-07 at 5:42 am,
JL wrote:
Hm… are Gravatars turned on?
On 04-Apr-07 at 8:56 am,
drac wrote:
rastiadu: indeed.
JL: Yeah, it could be an optimistic piece of software… I’m testing it out today with a blank DVD. And the deletion part: I’m so there. I have 30 odd CDs worth backed up mp3s which I cart around from place to place. It’s evolved into its own catalog and my own perl script to grep through it and a mini database and everything.
A DVD would have been much simpler.
and gravatars are turned on, but I only check the cache about once every few months
lemme fix that now.
On 04-Apr-07 at 9:43 am,
Tz. wrote:
Shell script instead of perl script, but ditto. And you know, putting it on DVDs doesn’t really help. I switched to DVDs after the first hundred and twenty CDs, and I’ve already got a dozen… It’s Parkinson’s Law when “available space” = “all the DVDs you can buy”.
How did the testing go?
On 04-Apr-07 at 10:39 am,
drac wrote:
Well, at least there’d be fewer disks! Or so I tell myself. How fortunate that I rarely (never) feel compelled to archive movies for watching later. Or, for that matter, even episodes from the telly box.
Wait. Family Guy and Firefly are possibly two exceptions.
Anyway, which testing prithee?
On 04-Apr-07 at 11:32 am,
Tz. wrote:
The testing of the would-be burner with a blank DVD, of course. *grin*
On 04-Apr-07 at 11:33 am,
Tz. wrote:
Incidentally, the odd wrapping of the comment text box that JL was talking about -happens also in FF. And your gravatars aren’t picking me up, either.
Whine, whine, complain complain.
On 04-Apr-07 at 1:53 pm,
drac wrote:
Gah. I’ve zoomed all the way out and all the way in on Firefox and I don’t see it. This is probably another of those weirdass style things. Considering that I’ll probably need to rewrite this theme at some point soonish – I’m inclined to let it go.
Testing, gah. haven’t even unpacked the lappie yet, much less done the burn test. Burnination! And your gravatar should work now. maybe. My server is a flake
update: Actually, scratch that. Your gravatar appears to be broken. It ain’t loading. Everyone else seems to be okish. I think gravatar.com is offended by the bizarro email address.