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| From | micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive |
| Message-ID | <gg87pjl9njflec9i2pc5rupukmbr6fbpaj@4ax.com> (permalink) |
| References | <h1e3pj18ss69nilj144vae4qnk9vont4eo@4ax.com> <vmtetr$1l0fm$1@dont-email.me> |
| Organization | Tweaknews |
| Date | 2025-01-24 09:54 -0500 |
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:07:05 +0000, Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote: >On 2025-01-23 03:38, micky 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. >> >> I"m thinking that now he says he only has one DVD, but later he'll want >> many more. >> >> When I googled to see the limit was one, I didn't get an answer, but I >> came across >> https://www.atera.com/blog/how-to-put-multiple-operating-systems-on-a-flash-drive/ >> but that is about putting more than one OS on a flashdrive. Still it >> sounded like something I should remember for my own future needs. Has >> anyone used it, or something similar? >> >> **He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow. I'm >> temporarily too sick to go over there. > >Sorry you are unwell, there seems to be a lot of it about ATM. But not like my csse. I had serious back pain and went to a pain doctor. Twice he used shots to anesthetize a nerve, and twice he used a steroid shot, and they had no effect. So he suggested a spinal cord stimulator, something like noise cancelling headphones, that send a frenquency into the spinal cord that masks the pain. This was just a TRIAL, without implanint the fig newton size device inside me, only taped to my side, and only two wires going near my spinal cord. After 7 days it didn't wdrk either, he removed it. Within 5 minutes the pain in the orignal spot in my back was enormous and within 30 minutes, my thighs and crotch started going numb. `15 minutes later, I couldn't move my legs and had to be carried on a sheet to the guerney for the ambulance. At the hospital within 30 minutes my ankles, legs, and toes started moving again, so I was only paralysed for 3 hours. That was a relief. But I didn't notice until the next day that I had total urinary incontinence, caused by a hematoma on my spinal cord. They say that is likely to go away when the hemantoma is absorbed, but can take up to 3 months. It's now 6 weeks with 7 more to go, or maybe it will not go away at all. I"m optimistic. The doctor has been a jerk, afaic. > >A lot depends on what is on the DVD(s), which you don't tell us ... I thought I did but I'll take your word for this. >If it's media, such as a movie, then Paul has explained already how to >do this. It shouldn't matter how many ISOs you put on the USB drive, as >long as it has enough space on it to hold what is required. It is a movie. This post should be a thank-you and reply to everyone. I used Imgburn to make an .iso of the file, but it didn't work. I had tried to be clever by leaving some files on the flashdrive and figure Imgburn would delete them or complain, but neither happened, so I blamed that, deleted everything and did it again. The second one didn't work either, and eventually I noticed the flashdrive was empty. I had put the .iso on the D drive and not the E drive. So I did it a 3rd time. This time I started VLC first and used it to find the .iso, and it brought up an introductory page. My friend had gotten that far too, using an external DVD drive. But clicking on the words like Full Feature and Sections made it blink and change colors but nothing else happened. Finally I right clicked, put the cursor on Playback, moved the cursor to Titles, and them moved the cursor to a specific title, as those menus opened. And it played. Maybe the first one I made would have worked too if I'd tried right clicking. The few dvd's I've had I played on a DVD player, and the only .iso I remembewr using was a copy of windows 10 I dl'd and used to install windows. It didn't have an introductory page, and that's what confused both of us, but he needed the virtual DVD, and now he has one. I forgot to check if it will play straight through from start to finish, but a) this seems good enough for an instructional Tai-Chi video where each title is about one particular tai chi move/stance/whatever; and b) I put over 5 hours into this, so that's enough. They do lots of favors for me, so I'm happy to find something I can do for them. OTOH, he has a Ph.D. in math and worked in technical fields all his career, so I'm surprised he needs help at all. He's 84 iirc and his back is bent, but I see no sign that his mind has slowed at all. That is, he would have needed this help 30 years ago too. He also had an external DVD drive that works now with a similar method, I had been finding the DVD or the virtual DVD in a file manager and didn't know which file to click on, and none of them worked anyhow. Maybe I was supposed to click on the folder? Putting more than one .iso on a flashdrive was not the immediate goal, so I read everything people wrote, but that can wait. So thanks again, to you and everyone. >If it's games, then I suspect that there will be at least some variance, >possibly a great deal, by the type of game, etc, but really I wouldn't >be the person to ask about this anyway. > >However, if there is a need to boot from the DVD, and Ventoy, as >suggested by MR, doesn't work, then I might be your guy, but if, as >seems from the above, your friend is not particularly computer savvy, >then I suspect that he's in for crash learning course. > >See a recent thread* of mine dated 2025-01-06 and cross-posted to ... > alt.os.linux, > uk.comp.os.linux, > alt.windows7.general >... entitled ... > "SOLVED: One Rescue USB does it all" >... where, in the final two sections, I launch various Ubuntu and >Windows installation ISOs using grub. > >* And possibly also its earlier incarnation of 2024-06-22 similarly >cross-posted entitled ... > "One Rescue USB does it all, well that's the plan at any rate" >... but I don't think there is anything that you would need in that >earlier thread that isn't reproduced in the later thread. > >In summary, you have to install, and thereafter maintain, grub somehow, >and that's probably going to be easiest if you also install at least a >minimal Linux OS, but, as simply I installed XUbuntu into one of the >partitions, I didn't go into any detail there on obtaining a minimal >Linux installation. Thereafter, you can use the grub examples given in >thread to experiment with launching different ISOs directly from grub.
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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
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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 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
Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-01-30 17:22 +0000
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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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