Styupid!...;) Extract an ISO

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It's always something. I installed Roxio on both systems (yes, yes, first mistake... a long time ago. I find it doesn't seem to be able to extract ISO files. Both machines give identical messages (different burners, different OS's, only the software is the same - Roxio CD Classic 6).

So when I try to extract, unpack, unzip, or whatever the 'technical' name for getting the image to be created to DVD, it gets about 3% in, then says 'track error', 'drive waiting to be ready', etc.

Does anyone have a good, free ISO extractor that runs under either XP or Windows 2000? Can't go to Ubuntu, Knoppix, or Fedora without it.

and what the hey? someone might even be turned onto some good new software. Thanks...

Well, if you need to extract the iso 7-zip for windows should suit your needs.

Though I dont understand why not just burn the image, or are you trying to move it to an external drive and boot it?

at any rate, here..
http://www.7-zip.org/

yeah..these are iso images for Linux. I'm trying to set up my old system on linux, and the distros come as an iso image.

7-zip I have (somewhere), so it's an idea. Thanks.

you cant just burn a disc with the iso image?

well, unless I have this wrong, an iso image is usually a complete build of a bootable CD or DVD. You run an ISO extractor, and it makes the distro disc, and you put that in, boot it, and start installation of Linux.

I can do backups of CDs or DVDs just fine, but it won't handle the ISO. Roxio V6 is pretty old, but it does the same thing to CDs.

I'm mainly looking for a program that will run the iso. Let me know if I've missed somethin'...

ah no. the iso is an image of a CD filesystem. What you want to do is use a utility to burn the ISO to disc as an image. Roxio should serve your purpose fine but InfraRecorder is good too.

http://infrarecorder.org/

Once you have your CD burnt from the ISO image you will be able to stick it in your CDROM drive and reboot to launch it.

if your installing Ubuntu you could try Wubi and install ubuntu within windows, especially if your just starting out this probably will give you the least headache and make it easier for you to undo should you choose to do so.

now that's service...thanx...

I find WinRAR is also good. But I just mount the image with PowerISO or Daemon Tools