Hi all,
I recently purchased some Verbatim 4.7 GB DVDs from Amazon.com. I’ve been downloading various ISOs & doing backups etc. but I’ve had some issues.
First off, I don’t really understand how Mastered/Live File System work…
If you truly can use any DVD like a USB drive, what is the point of a DVD-RW? Why do they even exist? Is it just marketing?
I just downloaded the Windows 10 ISO and tried extracting it to one of the DVDs (formatted with Live File System)…it seemed to work fine, but I apparently forgot to press ‘Finish burning data to DVD’ or something in Windows, so when I tried to boot from the disc it didn’t work.
When I loaded Windows, it showed 0 bytes free & no data on the disc.
So, I figured I’d just redo the extraction. I loaded 7zip and selected the ISO, but when I began extracting to the disc it gave me errors such as “Cannot open file H:\*” with some filename after it. (H:\ is the DVD drive).
I figured maybe some data WAS put on the DVD when I first extracted it, but possibly was corrupt due to me not finalizing the burn. I tried to format the disc, but it came back saying ~ 400 MB free.
Does anyone have any idea what’s going on here? Have I ruined the disc? It’s not that big of a deal, they were like 20 cents each, but I don’t want to waste any more.
Thanks.
You have to burn ISO files to a DVD using an appropriate program, such as ImgBurn. You can’t just extract the files to a DVD and expect it to be bootable. Forget about what file system is used – it will be whatever was used to create the ISO image.
Use ImgBurn – it just works.