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Can someone please help me with this question--regarding .ISOs?
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6. September 2006 @ 10:49 |
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Okay, so yesterday a PAL of mine lent me his Half-Life 2 game. I haven't installed the game or anything yet, so please, don't give me any of the "you can't make it work because he already registered the game (etc)" comments, okay? Now, continuing, I created 5 .isos of the 5 discs that came with the game (I asked him why the heck he didn't get the dvd version of the game, but anyways...). I would like to know how I can go about merging these 5 .isos together, so that I can have just one DVD of the game. Is that possible? Please, I'd appreciate any feedback/input. BTW, the collective size of all the ISOs is ~2.80GB (well within the constraints of a DVD's maximum capacity).
Thanks all!
--BadBoy787--
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6. September 2006 @ 10:52 |
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Hi there,
1st of all I am not a game man, but here's what I know.
If these were just data CDs there would be a few ways I guess.
1) Copy all the data to a Hdd then burn to a DVD Media
2) Mount all .ISO with Daemon Tools and copy to a DVD media etc...
But I have a strong feeling there's somekind of protection on those disks (Not?)
SecureROM, SafeDisk etc...
There are some scanners that can identify what protection is on there, if any, sorry I forget the name of it !
Making a copy with VSO Blindwrite, or Alcohol 120% might work.
Does your copy of the game work ?
Good Luck !
VSO Software Golden Membership Proud Owner / VSO Software Beta Tester
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 6. September 2006 @ 10:55
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6. September 2006 @ 12:12 |
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If you want to store them on a DVD, do so as five ISOs, and extract each to a CD if necessary. It's not just copy-protection you have to worry about: If the game installer is configured to expect 5 CDs, then you'd better provide 5 CDs, not a DVD.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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6. September 2006 @ 12:18 |
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Uh, could you please clarify that? I'm kinda confused by what you said. And to cougar_ii, I don't think that'd work.
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7. September 2006 @ 09:56 |
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Uh...anyone, anyone at all?
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7. September 2006 @ 19:25 |
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I mean just burn all five ISO files that you made onto a single DVD as ISO files e.g. halflife-backup-disc1.iso, halflife-backup-disc2.iso, etc. Don't open them as an image and burn; just start a DVD-ROM project in Nero and drop all 5 ISOs in the project as data. You said they'd total 2.8 Gb so you'll have room to put some other stuff on the DVD if you wish.
The reason why, as I said, is that the game installer probably is configured to accept the game on 5 separate CDs (or something like Nero Imagedrive, which loads a CD from an image file), not one DVD.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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8. September 2006 @ 07:59 |
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Ah, I see. Haha, well man thanks, but I already knew how to do that. Do y'all think then, that there's no way to accomplish what I want to do (IE, make it so that you've got an actual bootable ISO/copy of the 5 CDs)?
Thanks
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13. September 2006 @ 00:44 |
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Probably not. You can give it a shot on a re-writable if you wish, but between the probability that the installer expects CDs and the probability that you have some form of copy-protection you have to deal with, I wouldn't bother going the DVD route.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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