Copy .iso files straight to Optical disk?

[Edward78]

I don't want to burn it, just copy. It doesn't seem to work, the thing is 5 gig & it pops right over no dialog. No way it can copy in a instant.

[eeeee1]

1 minute ago, Edward78 said:

I don't want to burn it, just copy

for what reason

[imcaspar]

1 minute ago, Edward78 said:

I don't want to burn it, just copy. It doesn't seem to work, the thing is 5 gig & it pops right ovey no dialog. No way it can copy in a instant.

"Burning" is the process of copying files onto an optical disk, as you "burn" the information into it with a Laser in your CD/DVD drive.

[Moonzy]

you have to burn it into the CD, either as a .iso file, or extracted

 

you cant magically store information on it without burning it on

[HanZie82]

Ok lets get some things straight.

You have an ISO file thats about 5GB?

You want to BURN it onto an optical disk, guessing DVD?

But you dont want to have it mounted as ISO but just the file on the disk?

Just use the windows file explorer to drag the ISO file onto an empty disk and then burn it.

 

[Yebi]

It pops right over in an instant, because it's not actually writing it to the disk, but putting it in a queue to be written. The writing process (also known as burning) is started manually after you put all the files you want in the queue. It's done this way because optical drives are not nearly as dynamic as other media and usually get finalized (a permanent read-only mode) after burning, so you wanna assemble everything together before touching the actual disk