Final set of ISO woes!

Ok, I promise that after this final entry on CD/ISO imaging woes I won't mention it for sometime!

On my last blog entry I wrote about a little applet called DeepBurner and I mentioned how its useful because its' lightweight.

Well, It turns out that lightweight or not it actually has a few issues when creating bootable CDs and bootable ISO's as those ISO's sometimes have 'boot I/O failure' error messages.

More goggling shows several apps that by themselves will do PART of what I hat but not the whole thing. ISORecoder is a good example. This tool extends the CD burning wizard built into XP so that you can create ISO files but you cannot create BOOTABLE ISO files.

I own a copy of MagicISO and this certainly can do the job but its not lightweight enough to do the job. I did consider rolling it up into an MSI so I could do clean install/de-installs as needed.

More goggling (is goggling a word?!) revealed a tool used by Microsoft called CDIMAGE. Apparently this tool is 'for internal use only' but has leaked out onto the net.
I managed to track down a GUI version of the tool and have a play with it.
It's lightweight, Allows creation of bootable and ANSI format CD's, comes in both GUI and DOS formats and it works consistently.

Yes, I think I my ISO/CD creation woes are over for now.........!