properly burning .iso file

[Lord Alfred Hayes]

i recently downloaded the 'drake 7.2 iso's. i burned them using the easy cd creator, but instead of creating all the files/directories, it only burned the actual .iso file on the cd. what am i missing??

thanks

[Big_daddy]

If Windows, Double-click on the ISO file and it will fire up Creator and create the CD

[Radar]

If you have actually copied those iso's to the cd, you should be able to boot from the first one which starts the install.

[Lord Alfred Hayes]

just to make sure i understand, when i burn the iso to a cd, it should create files and directories, correct?

when i created the cd's, i started creator first and then dragged the iso into creator. does that do something different than double clicking on the iso file??

[cotfessi]

if you're using a program like Easy CD Creator or some other windows based CD creation software, there should be a menu option under the "file" menu which allows you to open or create a cd from an image this is what you need to do. Simply copying the iso to the cd to be burned will not work.

[RedOctober]

Make sure the .iso file type is a picture of a cd. If its a picture of a page with the windows logo then your cd-burning software (CD Creator is not seeing the proper file type). Only if you see the .iso image in the form of a cd icon then you can drag and drop to make the install cd. If you see otherwise then you need to open up cd creator and chose to make an image.

[RedOctober]

Make sure the .iso file type is a picture of a cd. If its a picture of a page with the windows logo then your cd-burning software (CD Creator is not seeing the proper file type). Only if you see the .iso image in the form of a cd icon then you can drag and drop to make the install cd. If you see otherwise then you need to open up cd creator and chose to make an image.

[Lord Alfred Hayes]

the file type was a picture of a cd before i burned it. hmmmmm.............