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

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On 2025-01-25 20:16, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 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.

I don't know how to explain this properly, because Linux and Windows 
have one important difference. In Linux, everything is a file. The raw 
hard disk is a file. You can format a hard disk simply by copying a file 
to a certain other file, or by writing to it. Formatting is not an 
special operation.

"Burning" equals to formatting the stick with a DVD format, that we call 
ISO. In Linux, we can do that with dd, or with a simple copy:

   cp filename.iso /dev/sdd

where /dev/sdd is the special file that is the stick. But this very 
similar in looks command:

   cp filename.iso /media/stick

or in windows:

   cp filename.iso  d:\

is copying a file into the stick filesystem, not formatting it. 
Previously, we mounted /dev/sdd into /media/stick.

To do the burning operation in Windows you need special software that 
can access the raw stick, and do a format.


-- 
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
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-25 23:21 +0000
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-25 23:29 -0500
        Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-26 08:13 +0000
          Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-26 06:14 -0500
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            Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-26 17:42 +0000
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                Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-27 08:34 +0000
                Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-01-29 18:35 +0000
            Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 18:58 -0500
              Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-01-27 19:22 +0000
                Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-01-29 18:35 +0000
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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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