Seems like everything I try tells me I need an ISO to make an ISO.this is definitely counter-productive and a bit stupid. I finally found (I thought) something that would allow me to make an ISO (It's on Windows 7, didn't even know it was there!) I tried to create an ISO for restoration purposes. What happens?
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I get an ISO. But I had over 857 megs of files.and the ISO is 1.37 MB. You read that correctly, 1.37MB. Obviously, NOT all there!
I'm trying to create an ISO to try one last solution on my External drive. I create (or assume I create) from a folder, but I STILL get 1.37 MB. There's nothing in the ISO. NOTHING OK, it's obvious that I must be doing something wrong.
The question is: WHAT? How do I get that ISO to be the correct size so I can attempt my last solutions? You are not understanding why you are being asked that question. Tells you what an iso file is. You are assuming it must be an image of your HDD, which indeed would be very large, but it is usually an CD image of something else, such as an install CD of some random piece of software. For example, if you want to install a live linux system, you typically download an ISO file, which is an image of an install disk for the OS, not an actual copy of an OS. So you are being a bit one-track minded.
You probably want to create an image of your HDD, but Doctor John cannot assume that, he asks what is it you are trying to do - a perfectly sensible thing to ask, since the correct answer (from your point of view) is to use Ghost or Drivimg and you do not get an iso at the end of that at all. Click to expand.What in Windows makes an iso? There is a windows backup thing in Windows 7, I don't know what it outputs though. Like others have said/implied: What are you trying to do, its being asked because I don't think we know what in Windows makes an iso file that you are using.
If you are trying to back up your system, there are probably better ways. Are you trying to 'image' your Windows install? I think Windows' backup thing will do that, but like I said I don't know what it creates, maybe it does create an ISO.
But you never said what you were using, nor what your goal is. That is why you got the responses you did. There are all kinds of software packages that will make isos for you. But in 99% of these cases you are trying to image an optical disk.
There are other things that will mount iso images for you. There are also programs that burn isos (but Win 7 will burn them for you). So I think if you are trying to back up your Windows install to an iso file, and using something that came with Windows by default, then that is why you aren't getting the desired result.
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That is likely the wrong approach to what you want to achieve. OK, let me explain my situation a little better. Very simply, I am trying to restore my Windows XP. I have recovery disks.
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But in order to restore the program in the way I need to, I needed to make some changes to 6 INF files. I need to create the boot disk. In order to create that boot disk, I'm told I need to use an ISO. Every program I downloaded or investigated (There have been about a dozen) Tells me that in order to create an ISO, I needed an ISO. What I found in Win 7 (I found it when right clicked the mouse on the drive letter) said 'CREATE ISO IMAGE FILE'. And all the methods I found for restoring windows XP (Different computer) said I needed to have an ISO so I could make my adjustments. I needed to extract the files, make the changes, inject into the ISO, then burn the ISO to CD.
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But making an ISO directly from the CD seemed to be an unavailable option. When I found that ISO creator (See, I can't afford to spend a fortune restoring my XP, or go out to buy another H/D) I thought I had a chance to get the file burned properly after making my adjustments. But, as I said, when I tried to create the ISO, it just gave me an Empty ISO file, exactly 1.37MB in size. So, you see, what I am trying to do is find out why the ISO file is empty.I wanted to know what I was doing wrong. Going into an explanation of why I wanted to make the ISO was, and in my opinion still is, Immaterial. Maybe making the ISO through Windows 7 won't work.
But should the ISO be empty? (If you don't know how to the find the ISO creator (Create ISO image File) under Windows 7, I can't say I blame you; I stumbled on it by accident. So, I again ask: What difference does it make what I am doing with the ISO? I just want to know why it's empty and what I've done wrong (if anything) to leave it empty. I have everything I need to try a last attempt at restoring XP.everything except a bootable ISO with files! I can't use the unedited restore disks because of the type of drive.