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Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive

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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**
>>>>
>>>> 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.

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.


> 
>    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.

Because it is Windows and not Linux, so VLC has to be clever.


>>
>>    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.

Yes, true, but we also use the verb with flashsticks indicating a 
special mode of copy.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-22 22:38 -0500
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive MR <MR@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-23 05:19 +0000
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-23 00:39 -0500
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-23 10:34 +0100
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 03:11 -0700
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      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-26 01:40 -0700
        Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-26 17:16 +0000
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-01-23 13:07 +0000
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-24 09:54 -0500
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-24 11:08 -0500
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-23 11:07 -0500
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 17:20 +0000
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-23 19:51 +0100
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-25 12:48 -0500
        Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-25 20:16 +0100
          Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-26 01:55 +0100
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-26 18:14 +0000
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-26 18:19 +0000
  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Drummond <Drummond@lkjuj.com> - 2025-01-27 00:11 +0000
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 21:10 -0500
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-27 13:06 +0100

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