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| From | Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive |
| Date | 2025-01-23 13:07 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vmtetr$1l0fm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <h1e3pj18ss69nilj144vae4qnk9vont4eo@4ax.com> |
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. A lot depends on what is on the DVD(s), which you don't tell us ... 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. 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. -- Fake news kills! I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: www.macfh.co.uk
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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
Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-26 16:00 +0000
Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-26 17:42 +0000
Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-01-27 08:00 +0000
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
Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-01-30 17:22 +0000
Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-04-21 22:13 +1000
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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