Hello again, as you know, I am Eli the computer guy, and this is episode. 313 is owed disk images for copying, CDs and DVDs. So this question about CDs and DVDs has come up quite a bit recently and with modern technology. Iso images are an important thing to understand. So, basically, https://privatephotoviewer.com/download-instagram-stories/ have to understand about iso images is that they are single files that are image files for either cds or dvds. So if you have, let's say an operating system disk that you want to copy - or if you want to preserve, you can create an iso image of that disc and it's just its own file now back in the old days. The reason why this was very important is because, if you simply copy files and folders from let's say an operating system, installation CD, just to another CD, you just do basically a copy or and paste that the CD that you have created will not be bootable. It does not have a boot sector built into it. So let's say you got a copy of Windows, 7 or Windows, Vista the operating system disk, and you wanted to make a copy of it. If you simply copied the files and folders into a folder on your computer and then copy them back onto a blank CD or DVD, that would not boot the files and folders would be there, but it would not be a bootable disk might be creating an ISO Disk image you can then deploy that ISO disk image on to writable, CDs or DVDs, and you will have created an exact copy that will be bootable. So this is one of the problems that a lot of a lot of new people run into they they're trying to copy their friends operating systems discs so that they have copies of them. And then then they don't understand why it won't boot and that's why it won't boot if you simply copy and paste files and folders that does not create a bootable optical disk. You actually have to create a disk image and then, from that disk image you can deploy the image onto another CD or dvd. Why iso images have become more important right now you may be thinking well, eli optical discs are going the way of the dinosaur. Why is this something you're talking about in 2012? Either everybody knows it who needs to know it or if they don't know it, who the hell cares. Everything is going away from discs. Well, the issue is, is when you guys start to use things like virtualization software virtualization software can read directly from an ISO image. So I have, I have you know my little MacBook Mini and I do some tests using a virtual box for virtualization so with VirtualBox. I can create virtual windows, computers, virtual Linux, computers, so on and so forth, within that Mac Mini, but that Mac Mini does not have its own optical drive. So what I can do and what I've done is I create an ISO image of the windows. 7 disc of the server 2008 disk of Ubuntu disk, and then I can boot directly from that ISO image within the virtualization software, if you're using VirtualBox, whether you're, using Virtual PC so on and so forth. So the main thing with ISO disk images is you create an exact copy of the disk so that you can either deploy it basically copy the disks make duplicate copies of the disk or you can boot or you can use that ISO image directly now, when you Go to create ISO images or to turn to to create CDs from ISO images. You need a piece of software back in the days a lot of us use, Roxio or Nero nowadays. There'S a free open-source, ISO disk imaging software called imgburn. So you can see it write whatever that is imgburn. If you go into imgburn comm, you can download it, you can install it, you can use it and it's a great piece of software, so let me go and I'm gon na go over here to my desktop. So I can actually show you where to download this from so basically all you have to do. Is you have to go to imgburn comm and from there you'll go on to this page now, one of the things that I'll tell you is just be careful because there's a whole lot of advertising on this page and not a lot of direction on how to Download the software so stay away from any of these images. That say these are these advertisements that say download now, because this, in fact it does not download the image burn software before you download all of these these these different weird links here. These are not the links you want to click on. What you want to do is you want to click on the download page then, under here right in here, you'll see these mirrors mirror one mirror. Tear mirror three mirror form your five, no six, no seven! These mirrors are where you can download the software from. I would suggest the best one to go with is Softpedia, so all you do, is you go to Softpedia and then here again you have to be careful to make sure you download the right thing. You see this this right here. This free CD, DVD burner ad with the download now green button is not what you want to click. That is not what you want to click. What you want to click is right here. It'S this blue button with the arrow. This download, if you click this button, the down the blue download with the error arrow, that is what will actually download the image burn software for you. So just be careful with this. They really try to trick you with all these weird download now buttons just make sure when you down this, you down you download the proper software. You don't download some other weird stuff. When you do download the software, you just go through a normal installation process. Again, the one quark that they throw in there is that this is advertising based software, and so they want to change your default search engine and install and ask.com toolbar. I know we all get paid for advertising. I know I'm a web content guy. Normally everybody to to try to do is to try to deal with the advertising that the creators make you go through, but I find the ask comm toolbar and changing my search engine to be a bridge too far. You guys decide, but that's that's the only quirk with and so on. It'S a pretty normal installation process. Then once you've installed it all you're gon na do whoops. Let me oh you're gon na do is you're going to start the software and then you're going to get a panel. That looks like this. One of the reasons I like em, if you burn too, is that it gives you a very simple interface. So some of this software nowadays such as Nero such as Rock Co, they make the interface for using the software way too complicated. So I like image, burn because it's nice clean clear. It'S pretty easy to understand what to do so. If you want to write an image to a disk, so this means, if you have an ISO file and you want it to write it to a disk. You would click on this if you want to create an image from a disk, so you have a CD and you want to create an image from it. You would click this if you want to write folders all this other stuff is in here now. The important thing there's a couple of important things here. If I click on this write image file to a disk, you see that there's going to be a few options now most of this stuff, you don't really have to worry about the source. Please select a file, so you can click on this and then what you would do is you would find an ISO disk image that you want to copy to the disk. So if I've created this disc image before and you just double click - OK give me weird little air. Don'T worry about that it fixed itself. So that is the the image file then down here you have the destination so, depending on how many optical drives, you have on your computer that can record, you may have multiple destinations, especially some of the older computers. If you have a computer, that's 5 or 6 years old, it may have two optical drives in it. Both of them can record to a disc so that you have that option here. The final thing, the one I want to make sure you do - is this little checkbox right here this one that says verify always make sure that verify is checked off. This isn't an important thing. This is one of those things or I'm going to tell you as somebody that's been doing technology from 1996. You, you guys, don't have to make the newbie air mistake for the 16 years. People always make the newbie mistake, and I'm telling you you guys, don't have to do it. You guys can be better than the rest of us and not make this mistake that verify option once the disk has been burned. It goes back and it verifies. The disk makes sure it's been burned properly. The issue is, is it takes longer, takes about half again as long to burn a disk? So if you're burning a disk and normally would take you ten minutes, if you do the verify it'll take you 15 minutes. So therefore, a lot of youngins I was included, my buddies were included. My boss was included. My instructors were included all of us in the beginning. We decided, we don't want to check off that verify thing. We just want to burn it and we want to take the chances well that what happens when you do not verify it is what we call burning coasters, for whatever reason, if you do not verify your disk, the chances are. Are this that the disk will come out and be worthless, so you spent all that time a burning, a CD or a DVD, and you pull it out of the machine. You go to use it and it doesn't work at all. So you always want to make sure you do that check mark for bear up, find the disk. If you do that, I swear to you. You will be better it's one of those things everybody wants to skip, but it's not something you should skip. Then once you have that once you have the disk in right here, you see it's grayed out or you see right under at the bottom. You see this little file to disk thing. It'S currently grayed out because I don't have a disc in the drive, but if it wasn't grayed out, I could click on that button and it would turn the turn turn the ISO file into a disk and that it's that simple, then all you do. If you want to turn a disk into an ISO file, is you just go down here? You put the disk that you want to copy in then you do create image, you say what's the source, then you go down, you say: what's the destination and basically again all you do. Is you plug in? Where do you want this file stored and what you want? It called, and then you press the button at the bottom. That says, turn the image into an ISO file. Now there are lots and lots and lots and lots of options with a software, but I would say, don't worry about it me as a computer geek for a long time. I don't worry about those options they're there. If somebody ever told me to do it, I would do it, but then I'm not so worried about it now. One of the reasons that I like using it make you burn imgburn is that it turns the files into ISO files, so ISO files are a standard type of in disk image. File that almost everything will be able to understand Nero will understand it. Roxy will understand it whatever weird piece of disk imaging software, you have will be able to understand it. Some software, such as Nero defaults into turning these distances into dot in Rd files that is not detected and not readable by absolutely everything out there, so be careful. So if you have Nero, you have Roxio already on your computer, I would still suggest you download image, burn and use the is you use it to create the ISO? It really will do better for you at the end of the day, and that's that's really all there is to it. So this is how so you guys understand what these disk images. This is how technicians, like me, get those whole books of CDs for all the different operating systems. All the different office discs so on and so forth. Whenever a client would come to me and they want me to repair their computer and they have a disc that I didn't have, I would just throw it in my server - create an ISO file of it, and now I have it. So if I needed a Windows, 7 64 bit om disk, somebody brings it in and I'm working on their computer. I just create an ISO of it and I'm good to go. You know I go to my buddies and I say: hey: do you have any operating system discs that I they showed me the two or three that they would have that I didn't have? I would create ISO images and it's good to go the nice thing with the ISO images. Is they are files stored on your computer or your server? So you don't have to worry about them. Getting scratched. You don't have to worry about them. Getting broken. You don't really have to worry about having any problems you can create. These ISO files store them on your file. Server upload them to Google Drive do whatever you want to do, they're just normal files at that point, and then, when you need the disk, you turn the disk. You turn the ISO file into a disk. You pop it in your computer and you're good to go. It'S yeah ISO files again are just one of those, absolutely amazing, great, wonderful things that everybody should know about, but strangely not enough. People do again one of the most important things with ISO files. Now, in 2012 is not the ability to copy disks but, as I say, more and more computers are coming out that don't have optical drives built into them, and so, if you need to access the information that would be stored on a physical disk like this, you Would turn this disk into an ISO file and then there's software that can read directly from ISO files and that's how you get around and again my macbook air. When I put VirtualBox on it, I could boot to install operating systems in VirtualBox. I could boot directly off the ISO file install Windows 2008 server within that virtual machine, and I was good to go so so I'm Eli the computer guy. This was episode three yeah, three, thirteen ISO disk images for copying CD and DVDs. Imgburn is just the greatest thing since sliced bread. As long as you don't check off that little ask.com toolbar, it's absolutely not really wonderful. I enjoyed taping this episode for you guys and I look forward to see you in the next one.