A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive. Right? This is the main question. Google didn't seem to answer it.
I"m thinking that now he says he only has one DVD, but later he'll want
many more.
When I googled to see the limit was one, I didn't get an answer, but I
came across https://www.atera.com/blog/how-to-put-multiple-operating-systems-on-a-flash-drive/
but that is about putting more than one OS on a flashdrive. Still it
sounded like something I should remember for my own future needs. Has
anyone used it, or something similar?
**He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow. I'm temporarily too sick to go over there.
When I googled to see the limit was one, I didn't get an answer, but I
came across https://www.atera.com/blog/how-to-put-multiple-operating-systems-on-a-flash-drive/
but that is about putting more than one OS on a flashdrive. Still it
sounded like something I should remember for my own future needs. Has
anyone used it, or something similar?
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive. Right? This is the main question. Google didn't seem to answer it.
I"m thinking that now he says he only has one DVD, but later he'll want
many more.
When I googled to see the limit was one, I didn't get an answer, but I
came across https://www.atera.com/blog/how-to-put-multiple-operating-systems-on-a-flash-drive/
but that is about putting more than one OS on a flashdrive. Still it
sounded like something I should remember for my own future needs. Has
anyone used it, or something similar?
**He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow. I'm temporarily too sick to go over there.
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive. Right? This is the main question. Google didn't seem to answer it.
I"m thinking that now he says he only has one DVD, but later he'll want
many more.
When I googled to see the limit was one, I didn't get an answer, but I
came across https://www.atera.com/blog/how-to-put-multiple-operating-systems-on-a-flash-drive/
but that is about putting more than one OS on a flashdrive. Still it
sounded like something I should remember for my own future needs. Has
anyone used it, or something similar?
**He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow. I'm temporarily too sick to go over there.
**He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow. I'm temporarily too sick to go over there.
micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
Right? This is the main question. Google didn't seem to answer it.
An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you like
for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be what you're asking.
*Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?
Providing an iso file to your friend is sufficient as they can mount it locally and "play" it. I don't *think* there's any need for you to burn anything to a flash drive.
On 2025-01-23 03:38, micky wrote:
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
Right? This is the main question. Google didn't seem to answer it.
I"m thinking that now he says he only has one DVD, but later he'll want
many more.
When I googled to see the limit was one, I didn't get an answer, but I
came across
https://www.atera.com/blog/how-to-put-multiple-operating-systems-on-a-flash-drive/
but that is about putting more than one OS on a flashdrive. Still it
sounded like something I should remember for my own future needs. Has
anyone used it, or something similar?
**He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow. I'm
temporarily too sick to go over there.
Sorry you are unwell, there seems to be a lot of it about ATM.
A lot depends on what is on the DVD(s), which you don't tell us ...
If it's media, such as a movie, then Paul has explained already how to
do this. It shouldn't matter how many ISOs you put on the USB drive, as
long as it has enough space on it to hold what is required.
If it's games, then I suspect that there will be at least some variance, >possibly a great deal, by the type of game, etc, but really I wouldn't
be the person to ask about this anyway.
However, if there is a need to boot from the DVD, and Ventoy, as
suggested by MR, doesn't work, then I might be your guy, but if, as
seems from the above, your friend is not particularly computer savvy,
then I suspect that he's in for crash learning course.
See a recent thread* of mine dated 2025-01-06 and cross-posted to ...
alt.os.linux,
uk.comp.os.linux,
alt.windows7.general
... entitled ...
"SOLVED: One Rescue USB does it all"
... where, in the final two sections, I launch various Ubuntu and
Windows installation ISOs using grub.
* And possibly also its earlier incarnation of 2024-06-22 similarly >cross-posted entitled ...
"One Rescue USB does it all, well that's the plan at any rate"
... but I don't think there is anything that you would need in that
earlier thread that isn't reproduced in the later thread.
In summary, you have to install, and thereafter maintain, grub somehow,
and that's probably going to be easiest if you also install at least a >minimal Linux OS, but, as simply I installed XUbuntu into one of the >partitions, I didn't go into any detail there on obtaining a minimal
Linux installation. Thereafter, you can use the grub examples given in >thread to experiment with launching different ISOs directly from grub.
So he suggested a spinal cordI've had 4 surgeries for mine. My doc suggested this stimulator too but to me that's not fixing the
stimulator, something like noise cancelling headphones, that send a frenquency into the spinal cord that masks the pain.
This was just a TRIAL, without implanint the fig newton size device
inside me, only taped to my side, and only two wires going near my
spinal cord.
On 2025-01-23 18:20, Chris wrote:
micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
Right? This is the main question. Google didn't seem to answer it.
An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you like
for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be what
you're asking.
*Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is
burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?
We use the term "burning" when referring to flash media to mean writing
the file to the raw media, destroying whatever filesystem was there.
When inserting that flash media the computer acts as if you inserted a >CD/DVD, and can boot directly from it.
dd if=somefile.iso of=/dev/sdd
It is equivalent to burning to a DVD using burning software. Only a
single ISO can be burned to a given stick.
Providing an iso file to your friend is sufficient as they can mount it
locally and "play" it. I don't *think* there's any need for you to burn
anything to a flash drive.
Right.
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:51:59 +0100, "Carlos
E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2025-01-23 18:20, Chris wrote:
micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn >>>> which I have used in the past.
My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive. >>>> Right? This is the main question. Google didn't seem to answer it.
An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you like >>> for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be what >>> you're asking.
*Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is
burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?
We use the term "burning" when referring to flash media to mean writing
the file to the raw media, destroying whatever filesystem was there.
The point of the following story is that Imgburn didn't destory the
files that werer there, like I thouhgt it would.
My answer to Java Jave wss meant for everyone and explained why it
took me 3 tries to make the virtual DVD.
The first time I thoguth I'd be clever and, though I'd moved the few
files alredy on the flashdrive, I didn't delete them and expected
Imgburn to do that. When it didn't, I deleted them myself and still it
didn't work as a virtual DVD (or it did, but I didn't right click on the introdcutory page that I think showed up.)
Then I erased the files on the flashdrive and did it again, but this
time I wrote it to the C: Drive instead of D. Then I wondered why it
didnt' work.
The 3rd time it worked.
-- end of story --
When inserting that flash media the computer acts as if you inserted a
CD/DVD, and can boot directly from it.
Not quite as good as a red dvd in a dvd drive, for me. The first starts
up on its own, and this one requred starting VLC and finding the dvd
entity.
dd if=somefile.iso of=/dev/sdd
It is equivalent to burning to a DVD using burning software. Only a
single ISO can be burned to a given stick.
I think so too, but in this case, the stick was onoy 2gigs big and the
files were 1.7 gigs big, so no extra space anyhnow. The stick ws named
after the defense contractor he worked for 10 years ago, so it was old
and that's why it was so small.
Providing an iso file to your friend is sufficient as they can mount it
locally and "play" it. I don't *think* there's any need for you to burn
anything to a flash drive.
Right.
I thought burn was reserved for cd and dvd disks where some heat, laser
hear, was actually involved in writing to them.
No, you can put as many isos as you wish on a flash drive that has
sufficient storage space to hold the iso files.
My 32 GB flash drive has ISO's for Win11 22/23/24H2 plus IMG(mountable
file like ISO) for both M365 Family and Office 2019 Home and Business.
Those 5 account for ~25 GB. Leaving room for all my other primary programs'installers(just shy of 2 GB more - iTunes, Imaging, Browsers,
and few other utilities and diskpart scripts)
On 2025-01-25 18:48, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:51:59 +0100, "Carlos
E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2025-01-23 18:20, Chris wrote:
micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using
Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a
flashdrive.
Right? This is the main question. Google didn't seem to answer it. >>>>
like
for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be
what
you're asking.
*Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is >>>> burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?
We use the term "burning" when referring to flash media to mean writing
the file to the raw media, destroying whatever filesystem was there.
The point of the following story is that Imgburn didn't destory the
files that werer there, like I thouhgt it would.
Which means it did not do a burn, but a file copy.
In Linux parlance (but Windows also has the 'dd' command) it is:
dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdd
which means copy filename.iso to the disk device of the destination, not
to the filesystem existing in the device. The operation destroys
whatever filesystem existed in the stick.
What Imgburn did was perhaps:
cp filename.iso d:\
It might instead have opened the iso and copied the files inside.
On 23/01/2025 10:11, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
[....]
No, you can put as many isos as you wish on a flash drive that has sufficient storage space to hold the iso files.
My 32 GB flash drive has ISO's for Win11 22/23/24H2 plus IMG(mountable file like ISO) for both M365 Family and Office 2019 Home and Business.
Those 5 account for ~25 GB. Leaving room for all my other primary programs'installers(just shy of 2 GB more - iTunes, Imaging, Browsers, and few other utilities and diskpart scripts)
Do you use Ventoy to assist with accessing those iso files?
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
I've been using Ventoy recently and found that it worked really well.
On Sat, 1/25/2025 6:21 PM, David wrote:
On 23/01/2025 10:11, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
[....]
No, you can put as many isos as you wish on a flash drive that has sufficient storage space to hold the iso files.
My 32 GB flash drive has ISO's for Win11 22/23/24H2 plus IMG(mountable file like ISO) for both M365 Family and Office 2019 Home and Business.
Those 5 account for ~25 GB. Leaving room for all my other primary programs'installers(just shy of 2 GB more - iTunes, Imaging, Browsers, and few other utilities and diskpart scripts)
Do you use Ventoy to assist with accessing those iso files?
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
I've been using Ventoy recently and found that it worked really well.
Isn't Ventoy mostly for LiveDVD usage and running multiple Live OSes
from a single USB key ?
Other people are referring to their USB keys which contain content
in the ordinary way. These are not USB keys that are booting anything, they're just general purpose data storage keys. Since Windows allows
some content to be mounted on the fly (as does Linux), you can
mount some ISOs without needing a Ventoy.
But speaking in very general terms, you might own two USB keys (it's a concept).
One USB key is for emergency boot. The second USB key may contain
utilities or materials to be used once the machine is running. That's
what w¡ñ§±¤ñ is referring to, is his collection of general materials for repair work.
USB keys don't have to be small or slow. There are some which are logically an SSD inside. This one, it uses a single controller chip for the purpose
of behaving this way, and it's better than the average $0.59 chip inside
the average USB stick. Reliability still unknown, and we just wait
for reports to show up as to how good it really is. And you have to buy materials like this from reliable sources that don't deal in fraudulent versions.
https://www.newegg.com/patriot-model-pef1tbrpmw32u/p/N82E16820225289
Paul
That seems amazingly good value for money! :-D
In the bottom of my 'box of bits' I still have this (working!) device:- https://icecat.co.uk/en/p/buffalo/ruf-c512m-u2-4/usb+flash+drives-usb+flash+blue+512mb-834254.html
At the time of purchase, it cost me 'an arm and a leg'!
In the bottom of my 'box of bits' I still have this (working!) device:- https://icecat.co.uk/en/p/buffalo/ruf-c512m-u2-4/usb+flash+drives-usb+flash+blue+512mb-834254.html
At the time of purchase, it cost me 'an arm and a leg'!
David <David@example.net> wrote:
[...]
In the bottom of my 'box of bits' I still have this (working!) device:-
https://icecat.co.uk/en/p/buffalo/ruf-c512m-u2-4/usb+flash+drives-usb+flash+blue+512mb-834254.html
At the time of purchase, it cost me 'an arm and a leg'!
I also still have one of those, a 512MB SanDisk cruzer micro with nice coloured covers (for the stick and the connector) in a small plastic
box. It is still used as a 'Rescue media' stick for Macrium Reflect
image backups. Probably still have the (paper) invoice somewhere, but as
I still have both arms annd legs, I can't be bothered to check what it
cost! :-)
The next bigger one is 2GB, also a SanDisk cruzer micro, same size, so
I can use the same covers.
David wrote on 1/25/25 4:21 PM:
On 23/01/2025 10:11, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
[....]
No, you can put as many isos as you wish on a flash drive that has
sufficient storage space to hold the iso files.
My 32 GB flash drive has ISO's for Win11 22/23/24H2 plus
IMG(mountable file like ISO) for both M365 Family and Office 2019
Home and Business.
Those 5 account for ~25 GB. Leaving room for all my other primary
programs'installers(just shy of 2 GB more - iTunes, Imaging,
Browsers, and few other utilities and diskpart scripts)
Do you use Ventoy to assist with accessing those iso files?
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
I've been using Ventoy recently and found that it worked really well.
No, those isos/img,exes are present on a single USB stick and each iso
iso mountable when needed for installation, exe for installation, troubleshooting, or other file information or replacement - a handy,
stick with a range of content like any other multi-purpose utility.
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
On 23/01/2025 03:38, micky wrote:
A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
So presumably it's either an unprotected, unencrypted DVD or you also
have some software to decrypt it before you image it?
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
David <David@example.net> wrote:
[...]
In the bottom of my 'box of bits' I still have this (working!) device:-
https://icecat.co.uk/en/p/buffalo/ruf-c512m-u2-4/usb+flash+drives-usb+flash+blue+512mb-834254.html
At the time of purchase, it cost me 'an arm and a leg'!
I also still have one of those, a 512MB SanDisk cruzer micro with nice
coloured covers (for the stick and the connector) in a small plastic
box. It is still used as a 'Rescue media' stick for Macrium Reflect
image backups. Probably still have the (paper) invoice somewhere, but as
I still have both arms annd legs, I can't be bothered to check what it
cost! :-)
The next bigger one is 2GB, also a SanDisk cruzer micro, same size, so
I can use the same covers.
On 23/01/2025 03:38, micky wrote:
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
Why use imgburn just to copy music files?
The files can just be copied like any other files on a flash drive but
if you are really concerned about the number of lose files then just zip
them and then copy the zipped file on to the flash drive. This way you
save the trouble the recipient is likely to face if he/she doesn't know
what to do with the iso files.
ISO files can be extracted but the recipient might not know how to do it.
On 26/01/2025 16:00, Frank Slootweg wrote:
David <David@example.net> wrote:
[...]
In the bottom of my 'box of bits' I still have this (working!) device:-
https://icecat.co.uk/en/p/buffalo/ruf-c512m-u2-4/usb+flash+drives-usb+flash+blue+512mb-834254.html
At the time of purchase, it cost me 'an arm and a leg'!
I also still have one of those, a 512MB SanDisk cruzer micro with nice coloured covers (for the stick and the connector) in a small plastic
box. It is still used as a 'Rescue media' stick for Macrium Reflect
image backups. Probably still have the (paper) invoice somewhere, but as
I still have both arms annd legs, I can't be bothered to check what it cost! :-)
Haha! Thanks for responding, Frank!
The next bigger one is 2GB, also a SanDisk cruzer micro, same size, so
I can use the same covers.
My 'best' thumb drive is also a SanDisk 'Cruzer Edge' 32 GB but it's
amazing what one can buy nowadays at very modest cost.
David <David@example.net> wrote:
On 26/01/2025 16:00, Frank Slootweg wrote:
David <David@example.net> wrote:
[...]
In the bottom of my 'box of bits' I still have this (working!) device:- >>>> https://icecat.co.uk/en/p/buffalo/ruf-c512m-u2-4/usb+flash+drives-usb+flash+blue+512mb-834254.html
At the time of purchase, it cost me 'an arm and a leg'!
I also still have one of those, a 512MB SanDisk cruzer micro with nice >>> coloured covers (for the stick and the connector) in a small plastic
box. It is still used as a 'Rescue media' stick for Macrium Reflect
image backups. Probably still have the (paper) invoice somewhere, but as >>> I still have both arms annd legs, I can't be bothered to check what it
cost! :-)
Haha! Thanks for responding, Frank!
The next bigger one is 2GB, also a SanDisk cruzer micro, same size, so >>> I can use the same covers.
My 'best' thumb drive is also a SanDisk 'Cruzer Edge' 32 GB but it's
amazing what one can buy nowadays at very modest cost.
Too bad they can be very slow and don't last long compared to the very old USB flash sticks.
My 128 MB SanDisk Cruzer flash drive still work today! :O
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:11:25 +0000, Drummond <Drummond@lkjuj.com> wrote:
On 23/01/2025 03:38, micky wrote:
I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive. Using Imgburn
which I have used in the past.
Why use imgburn just to copy music files?
Because it works?
The files can just be copied like any other files on a flash drive but
Not from what I've read. With a simple copy, the files are copied but
their arrangement to ech other is not. A virtual DVD requires an .iso
file afaik.
if you are really concerned about the number of lose files then just zip
them and then copy the zipped file on to the flash drive. This way you
save the trouble the recipient is likely to face if he/she doesn't know
what to do with the iso files.
What if he doesn't know what to do with a zip file?
That would be a big problem. That's why I made an .iso file itself,
ISO files can be extracted but the recipient might not know how to do it.
that doesn't need extraction.
My first flash drive came taped to the top of a stack of cd's. 512mb or smaller. I was so impressed that I had something new, and for free no
less.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:58:23 -0500, micky wrote:
[snip]
My first flash drive came taped to the top of a stack of cd's. 512mb or smaller. I was so impressed that I had something new, and for free no less.
IIRC, my first flash drive held 2MB. It came with a digital camera (one
that wasn't very good, just VGA 320*200 resolution).
[snip]
On 27/01/2025 08:00, Ant wrote:
David <David@example.net> wrote:
On 26/01/2025 16:00, Frank Slootweg wrote:
David <David@example.net> wrote:
[...]
In the bottom of my 'box of bits' I still have this (working!) device:- >>>> https://icecat.co.uk/en/p/buffalo/ruf-c512m-u2-4/usb+flash+drives-usb+flash+blue+512mb-834254.html
At the time of purchase, it cost me 'an arm and a leg'!
I also still have one of those, a 512MB SanDisk cruzer micro with nice
coloured covers (for the stick and the connector) in a small plastic
box. It is still used as a 'Rescue media' stick for Macrium Reflect
image backups. Probably still have the (paper) invoice somewhere, but as >>> I still have both arms annd legs, I can't be bothered to check what it >>> cost! :-)
Haha! Thanks for responding, Frank!
The next bigger one is 2GB, also a SanDisk cruzer micro, same size, so
I can use the same covers.
My 'best' thumb drive is also a SanDisk 'Cruzer Edge' 32 GB but it's
amazing what one can buy nowadays at very modest cost.
Too bad they can be very slow and don't last long compared to the very old USB flash sticks.
How do you know this to be true, Ant?!!
My 128 MB SanDisk Cruzer flash drive still work today! :O
That is GOOD news, but it cannot hold a 2GB file! ;-)
Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:
IIRC, my first flash drive held 2MB. It came with a digital camera (one
that wasn't very good, just VGA 320*200 resolution).
[snip]
At least, you were ahead of the crowds unless you got it late in the
game. :P
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:35:55 +0000, Ant wrote:
Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:
[snip]
IIRC, my first flash drive held 2MB. It came with a digital camera (one
that wasn't very good, just VGA 320*200 resolution).
[snip]
At least, you were ahead of the crowds unless you got it late in the
game. :P
IIRC, It was about 1997.
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