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This is not a file format description. Says nothing about how data is stored in the ISO file, but on the other hand, it discusses topics like the ISO 9660 standard that really have nothing to do with ISO file format. An iso file may contain images for data CDs not using any ISO 9660 filesystem, actually. Please correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.5.226.240 (talk • contribs) 17:44, October 5, 2007
I have 4 different ISO images that I am trying to fit into a DVD/RW. Each of the images does not exceed 1Gig. However, I have no tool that can help me collect all 4 ISO images, prepare them to be ready for writing to the disk. Do you know any tool/software that can assist on this? The tool I have can only identify an ISO image from source and have it ready for writing. Any help is appreciated. ~storm
An ISO image, by its very nature,contains all the information about and on the disk in one file. You can use a DVD/RW to contain the ISO images as files just by burning them to the disk as files just as you could put any type of file on a DVD/RW. You cannot, however burn multiple ISOs to the same disk because, the information contained within the ISO can only be on the disk once.
You could however, take the files out of the ISOs and then group them together into one ISO for burning. --216.254.136.67 14:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
cat file1.iso ... file4.iso > newfile.iso Fumblebruschi (talk) 20:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
This is too trivial to be put into the article, but for personal knowledge, and use, how does the general population of ISO users pronounce 'ISO'?
One of my geeky friends pronounces it 'Eye-ess-oh" (Like its spelled), however the other pronounces it "Eye-soh".
Is there an answer to this question? Donnyj (talk) 22:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)Donnyj
Why? It is rather a disk or track image, and never been purposed as and archive format. Yes, some archivers (eg. WinRAR) let one manage .iso as an archive but neither one would pack several files to an .iso nor mount a .zip file. Still, it is possible, but doesnt make any file containing a filesystem within _an_archive_. Isnt this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_file#Zen an absurd? 85.141.71.57 (talk) 12:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
"ISO images are not meant to be burned to DVD-RW, and they should be burned to DVD-R, because DVD-R is more widely supported." This line isn't quite really required. I am deleting it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.248.70.235 (talk) 13:03, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Under the 'Format' heading, the following text is found in the first paragraph:
ISO images do not support multi-track, thus they cannot be used for audio CDs, VCD, and hybrid audio CDs.
Yet a few sentences later in the final paragraph it reads:
The most important feature of an ISO image is that it can be burned to a DVD, VCD, or CD by using an ISO image burner, like ISO Maker.
I have therefore removed the reference to VCD in the final paragraph. Would it be worth mentioning BD (Blu-Ray Disc)?
92.11.17.98 (talk) 20:20, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I removed the external link for Microsoft virtual CD-ROM panel based on this comment at the help desk saying that the link downloads a file to your computer without asking. --Coppertwig (talk) 17:35, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I've never heard the greek explanation for the term ISO before; I always believed it was from the ISO9660 filesystem. Why else would ISO always be capitalized?
ANSWER: ISO refers to the International Organization for Standardization. CD-ROM's use the ISO 9660 standard filesystem.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization
shouldn't the description of the .cue/.bin format go elsewhere, since it is not an ISO format? Perhaps under disk image? -- Antaeus Feldspar 08:16, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
One of the cons listed for an ISO image is "Can rarely become corrupt." How exactly is this a con?--Shanel 15:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
The Pro/Cons Discussion of the ISO file vs physical CD sounds extremly fishy and useless to me, the one is a data format the other is a physical medium to storing said data format, so they are completly different things, so which one one uses depends solly on what one wants todo with it. Having a discussion about .iso vs .cue/.bin and other image formats would be far more usefull. It would probally be best to merge this article with Disk image, since discussing .iso on its own isn't all that informative. -- Grumbel 00:05, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
This article seems long enough that it isn't a stub. Should the stub status be removed? Bmecoli 19:35, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I know I shouldn't ask here but I know you all know and can help me. Is there any freeware ISO image creator/editor (this one more important to me)/burner?? All those shareware programs available on internet can only fill ISOs up to 300 MB (if you don't buy the program); and I tried AVS Disc Creator but it couldn't open Please help me, this could be useful for a lot of people. --Coldplayer 21:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
NAJohnson 22:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there a program where I can play ISO fan movies on the PC? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.253.47.76 (talk) 09:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure it's appropriate. First, it's a Mac OS X icon, so it MIGHT be copyrighted, and using it here wouldn't be fair use. Also, to readers unfamiliar with Mac OS X icons, it would appear at first glance as though ISOs are images of hard disks instead of CDs. Should the picture be changed? --M1ss1ontomars2k4 (T | C | @) 05:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Funny, i clicked the link for this page, and Download Accelerator Plus (my download manager) tried to download it, thinking it was a file!--72.188.56.176 01:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
In the current version of the article it is written: "Better performance is achieved by running an ISO since there is no waiting for the drive to be ready and the hard drive I/O speed is many times faster than the CD/DVD drive." Last part seems not correct. Current hard drives's speed is about 80Mb/sec, however 52x CD-ROM have 62Mb/sec speed (data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdd and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrom#Transfer_rates). So it seems that hard drives are faster, but less then 2 times faster, then CD-ROM's (not "many times faster" as written in the article). I am not very good at the subject, so writing here in the talk page, not in the article, in hope that somebody with more knowledge will check this before posting. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.150.50.194 (talk • contribs) 08:00, May 20, 2007 (UTC)
The name "ISO" is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media, but an ISO image can also contain UDF file system because UDF is backward-compatible to ISO 9660.
Is there a standard which says .iso files should only contain these two file systems? As an example, many tutorials which describe how to dump a filesystem from disk, e.g. NTFS or EXT3 or HFS+, use an .iso file as the output filename. Did the [ISO] ever release a standard which says an .iso file containing an EXT3 filesystem is not an .iso file, because EXT3 is not usually burned on optical media? Dazjorz (talk) 21:35, 29 December 2008 (UTC) IMHO "ISO" always refers to an image of an optical disk, so only ever uses filesystems found on optical disks. The term itself first originated as a common extension in CD burner application files, and while over time the "ISO" name is no longer completely accurate, it can still by regarded as a short form of "ISO or UDF or etc", i.e. ISO and related formats. The main distinction is that the ISO format is completely specific as regards sector sizes, expected filesystem and application area, whereas an image of a hard disk might have anything or nothing at all on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.49.197.106 (talk) 10:23, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Question?? this page is a redirect from .CDR which is a Corel file format used in there apps .CRD is also a file format used by mac computers as a archive or ISO Image. is it possible for that information to be included even once in a article about archive file systems? everything linked to Google only describes burning this format or converting to ISO. I have a .CDR archive file am I supposed to put my fingers to my forehead and communicate telepathically with Steve Jobs about this seemingly unknown mystery file the internet knows nothing about or this redirected wiki page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.6.251.63 (talk) 19:20, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
DEFINITION: the first line uses the word to be defined in the definition. Needs cleaned up. a little ambiguous — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.239.250.100 (talk) 00:18, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Article states "Any single-track CD-ROM, DVD or Blu-ray disc can be archived in ISO format as a true digital copy of the original" but this is not the case, because it won't capture the original disc's header information. The article even says this earlier: "ISO files store only the user data from each sector on an optical disc, ignoring the control headers and error correction data". So it is not a true digital copy, it loses information. That information might not be superfluous, for CD-ROMs any pre-emphasis information (whether it is applied, or to be applied on playback, or not) would be lost, for example. There may well be other examples of useful header information. 81.128.178.178 (talk) 09:28, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
I don't know and I can't find a place where describes the acronym for ISO, whether it's an acronym at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dorivaldo de C. M. dos Santos (talk • contribs) 00:10, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
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