It sounds like we need the equivelant of rawwrite for CDs. I wonder
how uniform the W32 driver interface is for the write capabilities of
the various recordable drives? Probably just handling ATAPI drives
would be a good start. Does anybody want to start a project?
Bill
Michael ODonnell writes:
>
>
> > If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write
> > the bits to disk as-is.
> >
> > The first 1.44 or 2.88 MB of the disk image is basically a DOS-type
> > floppy image that gets booted which then boots the CD-ROM (El
> > Torito format).
>
>
> I don't think so. IIRC, El Torito calls for a special pointer in the
> headers that indicate where to find the bootable image, which is not
> simply the first N bytes of data.
>
> > Perhaps when you drag&drop the CD software is reading the disk
> > image format (is it FAT?) and remastering, losing the El Torito
> > disk image.
>
> Nope - the md5sum is unchanged.
>
> > You want something that can explicitly burn a disk image.
> > Perhaps the windows utility can't do that but Nero can? Or you
> > can find someone with linux or a mac to write it for you...
>
> I have many linux boxes - that's not the problem. I'm trying
> to understand the XP approach well enough that I can coach
> someone through it who doesn't have Linux.
>
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