Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party applications?

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Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party applications?

Hi Robin,

No, you would need a 3rd party application to burn an ISO image to disc.
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5 is free and has a x64
specific version.
--
Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP Windows Shell/User

"Robin" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party applications?

Thanks. And do you know anything but PowerISO that can handle .daa?

"Jane C" <janecolman@invalid.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> Hi Robin,
>
> No, you would need a 3rd party application to burn an ISO image to disc.
> http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5 is free and has a x64
> specific version.
> --
> Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP Windows Shell/User
 
Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party applications?

I don't know this particular format, but usually you can just rename it to
*.ISO or whatever format your application requires to automatically include
it in the filename dialog. The whole concept of the 'digital image' (ISO!)
means any format will have to be digitally equal to any other format - i.e.
it's just a name!

The only instance I can think of for application specific digital formats
would be if you were dealing with parts of ISO's that required one specific
application to combine them into the original full size ISO - but I don't
know if any such thing actually exist.

Tony. . .


"Robin" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks. And do you know anything but PowerISO that can handle .daa?
>
> "Jane C" <janecolman@invalid.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> news:CE89D5F0-15DD-4F25-9BDD-3908BFFA1E98@microsoft.com...
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> No, you would need a 3rd party application to burn an ISO image to disc.
>> http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5 is free and has a x64
>> specific version.
>> --
>> Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
>> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
>> MVP Windows Shell/User

>
>
 
Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party applications?

An ISO image (.iso) is a disk image of an ISO 9660 file
system. ISO 9660 is an international standard originally
devised for storing data on CD-ROM. More loosely, it refers
to any optical disc image, even a UDF image.

As is typical for disc images, in addition to the data files
that are contained in the ISO image, it also contains all
the filesystem metadata, including boot code, structures,
and attributes. All of this information is contained in a
single file. These properties make it an attractive
alternative to physical media for the distribution of
software that requires this additional information as it is
simple to retrieve over the Internet.

Some of the common uses include the distribution of
operating systems, such as Linux or BSD systems, and
LiveCDs. The ease of Internet transmission also makes the
..iso format a common format for distributing copies of video
games over peer-to-peer networks, such as BitTorrent or
DirectConnect.

Most CD/DVD authoring utilities can deal with ISO images:
producing them either by copying the data from existing
media or generating new ones from existing files, or using
them to create a copy on physical media. Most operating
systems (including Mac OS, Mac OS X, BSD, Linux, and Windows
with Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM panel) allow these images to
be mounted as if they were physical discs, making them
somewhat useful as a universal archive format.

Console emulators, such as ePSXe and PCSX2, and many other
emulators that read from CD/DVD, are able to run ISO or
BIN/CUE (and other similar formats) instead of running
directly from the CD drive. 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. Along with the ability to avoid disk
failure (Shattering) which may be expensive to rectify.


Tony Sperling <tony.sperling@db wrote:
> I don't know this particular format, but usually you can just rename it to
> *.ISO or whatever format your application requires to automatically include
> it in the filename dialog. The whole concept of the 'digital image' (ISO!)
> means any format will have to be digitally equal to any other format - i.e.
> it's just a name!
>
> The only instance I can think of for application specific digital formats
> would be if you were dealing with parts of ISO's that required one specific
> application to combine them into the original full size ISO - but I don't
> know if any such thing actually exist.
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Robin" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:ehP6ARUEIHA.4228@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Thanks. And do you know anything but PowerISO that can handle .daa?
>>
>> "Jane C" <janecolman@invalid.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
>> news:CE89D5F0-15DD-4F25-9BDD-3908BFFA1E98@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi Robin,
>>>
>>> No, you would need a 3rd party application to burn an ISO image to disc.
>>> http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5 is free and has a x64
>>> specific version.
>>> --
>>> Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
>>> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
>>> MVP Windows Shell/User

>>

>
>
 
Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party ap

Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party ap

Tony:
Only PowerISO can open the .daa format.
Been there, done that.
:)
Carlos

"Tony Sperling mail.dk>" wrote:

> I don't know this particular format, but usually you can just rename it to
> *.ISO or whatever format your application requires to automatically include
> it in the filename dialog. The whole concept of the 'digital image' (ISO!)
> means any format will have to be digitally equal to any other format - i.e.
> it's just a name!
>
> The only instance I can think of for application specific digital formats
> would be if you were dealing with parts of ISO's that required one specific
> application to combine them into the original full size ISO - but I don't
> know if any such thing actually exist.
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Robin" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:ehP6ARUEIHA.4228@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Thanks. And do you know anything but PowerISO that can handle .daa?
> >
> > "Jane C" <janecolman@invalid.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> > news:CE89D5F0-15DD-4F25-9BDD-3908BFFA1E98@microsoft.com...
> >> Hi Robin,
> >>
> >> No, you would need a 3rd party application to burn an ISO image to disc.
> >> http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5 is free and has a x64
> >> specific version.
> >> --
> >> Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
> >> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> >> MVP Windows Shell/User

> >
> >

>
>
>
 
Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party applications?

It's been a long time since I've even seen a .daa, so can't remember off the
top of my head. Renaming it to .iso might work though.

--
Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP Windows Shell/User

"Robin" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks. And do you know anything but PowerISO that can handle .daa?
>
> "Jane C" <janecolman@invalid.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> news:CE89D5F0-15DD-4F25-9BDD-3908BFFA1E98@microsoft.com...
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> No, you would need a 3rd party application to burn an ISO image to disc.
>> http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5 is free and has a x64
>> specific version.
>> --
>> Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
>> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
>> MVP Windows Shell/User

>
>
 
Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party ap

Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party ap

Carlos,

Is the .daa proprietary to PowerISO? I've come a cross .daa in the past,
but it's certainly not a format I'd choose to create. I always create .iso
images.

--
Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP Windows Shell/User

"Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Tony:
> Only PowerISO can open the .daa format.
> Been there, done that.
> :)
> Carlos
>
 
Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party applications?

Yes that's what I was thinking - I cannot imagine what a proprietary 'Image
File' format would look like, except if it had it's own special header, or
something - in which case it wouldn't be an image file any longer, except if
the said application was designed to remove the header when burning.

No, I fail to see the logic. I'd rename it!


Tony. . .


"Jane C" <janecolman@invalid.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:C9EB661D-ABB7-4ED3-8B50-530C9A317515@microsoft.com...
> It's been a long time since I've even seen a .daa, so can't remember off
> the top of my head. Renaming it to .iso might work though.
>
> --
> Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> "Robin" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:ehP6ARUEIHA.4228@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Thanks. And do you know anything but PowerISO that can handle .daa?
>>
>> "Jane C" <janecolman@invalid.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
>> news:CE89D5F0-15DD-4F25-9BDD-3908BFFA1E98@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi Robin,
>>>
>>> No, you would need a 3rd party application to burn an ISO image to disc.
>>> http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5 is free and has a x64
>>> specific version.
>>> --
>>> Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
>>> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
>>> MVP Windows Shell/User

>>
>>

>
 
Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party applications?

What Is a DAA File

DAA files are yet another disk image file format, invented
and used by PowerISO. This means that a .daa file contains
an exact copy of a CD or a DVD - whether it be a movie, a
game or simply a few gigabytes of accounting data (damn my
perverted imagination).

It’s used to store DVD backups and… eh, who am I kidding
here? If you’re reading this, chances are you got (that is,
downloaded) a .daa file somewhere (that is, BitTorrent or
the like) and are wondering what to do with it. Read on.

Sometimes, when somebody wants to put a “backup” copy of a
disk online, the .daa file format is used instead of the
more popular disk image formats (like ISO, BIN, CUE) because
it supports certain advanced features -

* Compression - a CD/DVD copy stored in .daa file
format may be slightly smaller than a corresponding .iso file.
* Multiple volume splitting – this means that you get
multiple smaller DAA files instead of one huge disk image.
* Encryption/passwords – I don’t think this one is
terribly useful, but you can password-protect your disk
images if you use the DAA file type.

On a side note, it’s possible to get all the aforementioned
benefits of DAA files by simply archiving the ISO disk copy
with WinRAR. This is why you may often see .rar files in
BitTorrent downloads (additional information - how to deal
with RAR files).

How To Open DAA Files

There’s actually only one alternative when it comes to
opening DAA files. To open a file with the .daa file
extension you will need to download PowerISO. After you’ve
installed this program you can just double-click any .daa
file (which will launch PowerISO and open the file) and
extract any files contained in the disk image.

PowerISO can also “mount” DAA files with an internal virtual
drive it creates. This means you don’t need to burn the DAA
file to a disk before you can use it. You can just mount it
and play the .daa file as if it was a real CD/DVD.

At the moment there are no other known DAA converters
available. The .daa file format is proprietary and is not
supported by any CD/DVD burning software I know of, so
you’re stuck with using PowerISO to open them – at least for
now. However, if you mount the DAA file with the virtual
drive, you can probably copy/rip/do whatever you like with
the virtual “disk” using whichever software you prefer.

Jane C wrote:
> It's been a long time since I've even seen a .daa, so can't remember off
> the top of my head. Renaming it to .iso might work though.
>
 
Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party ap

Re: Can I burn an ISO file in WinXP x64 without using 3rd party ap

Jane:
DAA(Direct-Access-Archive) is PowerISO proprietary.
I have found no decompressor so far.
Users most compromised are those using Linux, because there is no version of
PowerISO for that OS.
Another good reason to stay with windows.
:)
Carlos

"Jane C" wrote:

> Carlos,
>
> Is the .daa proprietary to PowerISO? I've come a cross .daa in the past,
> but it's certainly not a format I'd choose to create. I always create .iso
> images.
>
> --
> Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> "Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C90928D1-8F08-4A86-8546-4CF2EE8529A3@microsoft.com...
> > Tony:
> > Only PowerISO can open the .daa format.
> > Been there, done that.
> > :)
> > Carlos
> >

>
 
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