Solved Burn image to USB drive

[sevener]

Hi,

I am wondering if it is possible to burn an image iso to a USB driver and by which mean?
I googled about but didn't find a clear answer. Replies are sometimes contrary and divergent.

Thank you

 

[Brink]

Hello Sevener,

You could use Part 2 in the tutorial below to extract (burn) a ISO to a USB drive.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31541-windows-7-usb-dvd-download-tool.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[arkhi]

that's because you don't "burn" stuff on USB.. You only burn data on Compact Disks, which is probably why you can't find results from google

 

[sevener]

Thank you for your answer.

@Brink, is Windows7 USB tool propre to windows 7 or we can use it to create any CD/DVD?

Thanks

 

[Brink]

You're welcome.

The Windows 7 USB Tool will run on Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) to burn any ISO to CD/DVD or to create a bootable USB.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
• 50MB of free space on your hard drive
• DVD-R drive or 4GB removable USB flash drive

FOR WINDOWS XP USERS

The following applications must be installed prior to installing the tool:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 must be installed. It can be downloaded here.
• Microsoft Image Mastering API v2 must be installed. It can be downloaded here.

 

[Britton30]

Works well sevener, I have use it to make a USB installer on a flash drive.

 

[sevener]

OK, thanks again.
Actually, I would like to burn a CD content, not iso image to obtain bootable USB for windows. I wish to copy a CD content to USB to avoid carrying the CD all time.
Some notebooks don't have CD drive, so if we can burn CD/DVD content to USB stick this will solve the issue of the absence of CD drive.
So I asked if we can use windows7 USB tool to burn the CD content to USB drive.

 

[Britton30]

Yes it does. you may use it for disks or USB drives. An iso will be need to make it bootable and work like the CD. This will create an iso from a CD\DVD ISO CD DVD image
This one may be better just to create a iso from a CD/DVD ISO disk ...it's free

 

[sevener]

Thankyou very much.

Just one last think please, I am a little bit confused, can we burn an iso image virtually without need to CD? I mean, burn the iso image to virtual CD drive, without need to insert a CD physic support?
I try to do it but I have a message that a CD is not inserted!

 

[kado897]

If you want a good general purrose USB "burner" you could do worse than to use YUMI - Multiboot USB Creator (Windows) | USB Pen Drive Linux. It even has support for a windows 7 Install iso.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Thankyou very much.

Just one last think please, I am a little bit confused, can we burn an iso image virtually without need to CD? I mean, burn the iso image to virtual CD drive, without need to insert a CD physic support?
I try to do it but I have a message that a CD is not inserted!

I'm also confused, because the point of the iso file is to not need the CD anymore. You don't need virtual drives at all to copy to a USB drive. The tool provided above takes the .iso file in and copies it to the USB drive for you, as if it was being burned to a disc.

 

[kado897]

Thankyou very much.

Just one last think please, I am a little bit confused, can we burn an iso image virtually without need to CD? I mean, burn the iso image to virtual CD drive, without need to insert a CD physic support?
I try to do it but I have a message that a CD is not inserted!

I'm also confused, because the point of the iso file is to not need the CD anymore. You don't need virtual drives at all to copy to a USB drive. The tool provided above takes the .iso file in and copies it to the USB drive for you, as if it was being burned to a disc.

What the tool does is take an existing iso and creates a bootable USB stick with the iso contents embedded in it. You can then boot the Install from the USB instead of the a CD. You may need to enable boot from USB in your bios.

 

[Britton30]

You need a CD to create a iso file. It could then be mounted to a virtual drive. See Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download it can create a virtual drive.

 

[sevener]

Thanks for you all.

 

[kado897]

You are welcome sevener. I hope we clarified some things for you.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
just adding to the advice here

Once you've MADE the ISO you can use a FREE application to mount this as a "Virtual Drive" which behaves just like a normal DVD.

I use this a lot to play DVD's on a Netbook when I'm travelling.


I use an application (AnyDVD -- not free unfortunately but cheap enough) to make an ISO of the DVD to an external USB drive or stick. AnyDVD will also change the region code to 0 so you can play the DVD anywhere.

I then mount this with Alcohol 52% and play the DVD with VLC just like a "Real" dvd.

You can also mount things like Office DVD's and install from the image iso.

Here's a link to the Alcohol 52% application

Download

BTW this application will also mount NERO .NRG images as virtual CD/DVD's as well unlike some of the other "virtual drive" emualtion software.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[kado897]

VLC is quite happy playing an ISO without it being mounted first..