I have an ISO of Vista ultimate that I want to use on a secondary HD. What I'm wondering is how I should go about burning the iso onto a DVD. I have the burner DVD's and numerous software but since it is an iso and an operating system i'm wondering if there is a special way to do this software I have: Nero 7 Premium Isobuster Xlisoft Western Digital Data Lifeguard tools WinRAR Windows XP burning utilities please help me : )
In Nero standard program (i.e. non smartstart, non express) Goto Recorder -> Burnimage From Smart start -> Backup -> Burn Image
I used IMGBurn and that program rocks. Vista is pretty damn sweet too. I need to pick up another gig of ram though before I try to game on it. Running Firefox and 7 widgets is putting me at 73% ram usage with a gig of ram. Depressing. Oh well I still have XP on my other raptor so I won't worry about it until I upgrade. But when I do I'll put Vista on Raid 0 and get rid of XP all together.
most common cd authoring programs will burn iso's they are images of disks.. one of the most common mistakes people make is burning the iso right to the disk, thus having a cd with a .iso file on it. using neros "burn image" like dougedey said will set you right up. but, beware installing vista on a second hard drive!!! if you ever choose to not use vista anymore, you will always have the OS choice screen! (unless you use a booting utility that can wipe that) its not that big of a pain, its just annoying.
Editing the boot configuration ie. boot.ini should suffice in not having the boot loader asking all the time.
So it overwrites the XP bootloader, pop in the XP CD and log in to recovery console. from there on fixboot should do the trick
