Longhorn DVD Burning Woes

I'm trying to install longhorn, but I'm still stuck staring at the ISO.  It turns out that the file's too big for a CD, but not formatted as a DVD ISO that Nero can recognize.  I'd love to be able to make a bootable DVD of it, but I can't seem to force Nero to do what I say.

Update: made some progress by using shareware called: “ISO COMMANDER”.  This allows extraction of not only the files inside the ISO image, but also the boot sector - in this case, a file named: “Microsoft Corporation.bim” I should now be able to create a bootable dvd, and if I'm lucky get the dual-boot to triple-boot of 2 builds of Longhorn side-by-side with XP up and running.

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  • I personally just mounted it in a virtual machine... :)

  • I'm loading it on an actual machine, though... not a virtual machine. I wanted to burn the dvd, so it could find the install files even if it changed the drive letters on reboot (IDE chain vs. SCSI)

  • You might want to give IsoBuster (www.isobuster.com) a try. I used it for the VS 2005 CTP back in March, and it worked like a charm. Granted, all that it will do is to extract the files for you - you'll have to burn them to a DVD yourself, and make it bootable and such. Worth a try, though.

  • Yes, actually IsoBuster was my first choice... That is how I managed to extract the bootable part of the ISO out. Now I'm running a successful triple boot between both longhorn builds, and XP

  • ...Forgot to mention the only flaw I found w/ it was that I was not able to delete files from the ISO using IsoBuster, but I was with that ISO Commander software

  • I have succesfully burn the Longhorn msdn DVD ISO with Nero. The trick is "just" to uncheck in the DVD recorder properties for your drive the setting "DVD high compatibility mode (at least 1GB will be written).

    To find this setting open Nero and click Ctrl-R --> Choose your recorder --> Click Options

    and uncheck the box.

    Best regards from Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Of course... _uncheck_ compatibility; I never would have found that one. Thanks very much for the tip; I will assume that since MSDN downloads are fairly standardized in their ISO's that this would work for future downloads as well.

  • Have you ever considere using Microsoft Virtual PC 2004?

  • i simply burned my iso file to dvd using nero. works fine..

  • Another option: use DVD Decrypter. Using version 3.2.2.0, do



    Mode - ISO - Write

    Then select the .iso file as the source, and your DVD drive as the destination.



    Then do File - Write, and a bootable Longhorn DVD should burn properly.

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