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I haven't used it myself, but InfraRecorder seems like a popular choice that should satisfy your needs. This program is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (version 3), which means

1. There are no restrictions on how you may run the program

2. You are free to look at the source code of the program and make modifications

3. You can freely share copies of the program

4. Anyone who makes modifications to the program is free to share those modifications

In fact, any program that grants users these 4 freedoms is called free software (free = "freedom;" the program doesn't restrict you), hence the name of this subreddit. If that sounds cool, you might want to learn more about the GNU/Linux operating system, which is a desktop operating system (a replacement for Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X) that is built primarily from free software. Ubuntu is a popular, easy-to-use version of GNU/Linux. Trisquel is like Ubuntu, but is composed 100% of free software.

That's probably more than you wanted to know, but feel free to ask if you have any questions -- the community here would be happy to help

Stuff you will need:

• Time, quite a bit of it
• CD or DVD drive with write functionality
• a blank writable CD or DVD
• ~10 GB of free hard drive space (more is better)
• Backup of your important Windows files

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• Go to http://www.ubuntu.com download their 32 bit cd iso (the orange get Ubuntu button).
• After the download completes burn it to a CD
  • Download http://infrarecorder.org/
  • open InfaRecorder and press the write image button
  • select the Ubuntu iso
  • wait for the system to burn the cd rom

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• you now have a CD installer for Ubuntu

• Place in the cd rom drive and reboot

• as soon as the computer reboots press f12 and boot from the CD drive

• When Ubuntu is done booting from the CD press the try Ubuntu button

• If all goes well you will be presented with a desktop that you can use to get a feel for Ubuntu

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• When you are ready click the Install Ubuntu 11.04 shortcut on the desktop

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• In the Preparing to Install Ubuntu steps
• select language
• Check install this third party software on the second page
• Select Install Ubuntu alongside Microsoft Windows...
• It will divide up the free space on your hard drive between Windows and Ubuntu
  • if you want give Windows or Ubuntu more space by dragging the slider
• Click install now and wait

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• When the install completes restart the computer and remove the cd
• When starting your computer you now should have the choice of using Ubuntu or Windows

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• go through the rest of the setup steps
• this is mainly account setup and a few other settings

Hello, welcome to /r/freesoftware. I have a feeling you mean "free" as in price (zero cost), but when we say "free" we mean free as in freedom. Free (as in freedom) software gives you the freedom to use, study, change, and share (copy) the program however you want. Most software that is free as in price doesn't let you study, change, or share it.

That said, InfraRecorder seems to be a good burning program for Windows that is free as in freedom as well as in price. (However, Windows itself is not free software, so if you are concerned about software freedom this isn't enough.)

> What is the difference between using these programs compared to an ISO burner such as PowerISO or alcohol120?

The obvious answer is that burning a physical CD requires a disc blank, which is frequently single use whereas USB drives are re-usable. You also can't install using a CD if the PC doesn't have a CD drive. If you want to play around with a couple of distributions with about two releases a year each then that's quite a bit of waste and general inconvenience.

The software you mentioned tries to justify the price by offering additional features that are completely unrelated to burning ISOs (e.g. "Up to 31 virtual drives" which Linux loopback devices can do out of the box). If all you care about is getting an ISO image onto that disc blank than things like InfraRecorder will do the job just as well (http://infrarecorder.org/)

> Why would someone pay for software when there are free alternatives?

Because Windows lacks a lot of really basic features, thereby creating a market in 3rd party software - for example, you need 3rd party software if you don't want running windows in the taskbar grouped with glorified desktop icons (making it impossible to easily tell which applications are actually running).

I've always been a fan of infrarecorder. It's FLOSS, has a familiar interface, and there is a graphic that makes the window look like it's billowing smoke during operations!

Onto a Usb via a DVD? Huh.? :)

For burning the iso file onto a DVD disk, i tend to use

http://infrarecorder.org/

I just realized - i dont even have an optical drive on my desktop machine.. well.. its in the case. I just unplugged it to plug in another ssd. :)

lol, this description is pretty funny but I know how he feels. Have you tried InfraRecorder to make the ISO? It's free. What you say makes some sense -- Test Drive: Off Road was kind of like that, it'd play as a normal music CD but also had an installer for the game. If I could get a look at that it may shed some light on all this, but I can't make any guarantees.

Something you could try though is mounting your CD drive to DosBox (going off memory here but it should be "mount d d:\ -t cdrom", where d:\ is your physical cd rom device) and try to run it that way.

Did you just copy the files from the disk onto the flash drive? Because that may present some problems. Like I mentioned in the first comment, you'll need to use a tool like infrarecorder to make a virtual disc, and then mount it on your new PC.

If that still doesn't work I don't really know what else could be wrong, outside of a hardware problem.

You can burn an ISO using most any popular DVD burning software such as: http://infrarecorder.org/

To mount it without burning to a physical disc you can use this if you're on Windows 7: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38780

Create a CD image using some sort of burnig software (Infra Recorder is free and should be enough), containing all the files. Then, mount that created iso, and try to install it using this 'Disk'.

A second option is use Visual Subst to mount the folder with all the files as a separate CD Drive.

A third easy but 'unpolished' (because cave-man style sounds bad) method can be to simply throw all the files within the root folder of any of your HDDs (that is with no folder containing them), and then try to install it from that location. Although i do not recommend this method.

If the installer was coded to install from a CD/DVD any of those options should do the trick.

download and install Infra Recorder, run it - you should see this: http://i.imgur.com/AI7iBpn.png

on the bottom left corner, click on Write Image, a window will pop up and ask for your *.ISO, point it to the file

Windows 7 and Windows 8 can be installed via USB. I haven't tried with Vista so don't know if it would be possible and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work with Windows XP.

Microsoft has their own tool and that's what I would recommend using. As an alternative you can use Rufus

You'll also need a USB storage device that is at least 4GB (8GB for Windows 8.1) large. It doesn't have to be USB 3.0, although it'll cut down on time on systems that support it.

The tool i mentioned uses an 'ISO' file which is basically a DVD image on your computer. If you have a physical disk, you can use a tool like Infrarecorder to rip the Windows 7/8 DVD into an ISO.

After you have an ISO, plugin your USB device and launch the tool. Choose your ISO file as the source. Click the create button and it'll ask what drive. Your USB drive should be listed -- confirm and wait a few minutes. That's it, you'll now have USB installer for Windows 7 or 8.

OS installation is the exact same as using a DVD.

Edit -- 4GB not 8GB

Edit2 -- Added Rufus

If you just put the .iso on a disc it won't work. An .iso is just an image of a CD, kinda like a .zip file. It has to be "unpacked". You'll need to use something like InfraRecorder to burn the image to disc.

Where are you running into the issue, exactly? There are some good programs out there that will do all the converting necessary and burn the CD for you.

If I recall correctly, Infrarecorder is decent: http://infrarecorder.org

One thing to remember, though, is that audio CDs only hold I think a maximum of 79 minutes of sound, so you will probably only be able to put 2 shows on a CD.

Now, some CD players have a data mp3 feature, meaning you can burn a data CD containing a bunch of mp3 files, which can be played, and this will allow you to put dozens of shows on one CD.

If you want some help, feel free to PM me, and I can step you through things. If you know the exact model of your CD player, that would make it easier to figure out the best options for you.

No need to torrent or pirate!

Office 2010 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/

Just enter your serial!

If you HAD to use the CD.....

Use Infrarecorder to create an ISO of the DVD then copy across using a flash drive. Windows 8 is AWESOME at handling ISO's. Just double click and it will mount it as if it's a real DVD in a drive and allow you to open it through file manager and install.

http://infrarecorder.org/

DISCLAIMER: Other ISO burning tools exist which may or may not perform better depending on other requirements. For straight ripping ISO's, this is an easy solution.

I Haven't used Nero in ages but it used to be really good back in the day. If you don't plan on burning many discs or ripping many movies, uninstall the whole suite and get yourself something much lighter like the free InfraRecorder

Get rid of kaspersky and get Microsoft Security Essentials

unless you use it, TeamViewer can go, too, it should probably free up some more resources for you.

Get rid of norton online backup if you don't use it, and probably the gateway one to. I'm not telling you not to make backups, quite the contrary, just make manual ones every now and then.

and finally, if that isn't for your printer, dump the epson drivers.

After all this, the machine will be tidier.

http://infrarecorder.org/ maybe give it a try?

or install the Desktop Experience Pack within Windows 2008 R2 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/133.windows-server-2008-how-to-burn-a-cddvd-on-ws2k8-r2.aspx#Choice_A

For the first one, right click on the unzipped .exe file (M17xR3_A09_W74.exe) and choose "Run as Administrator". For the second one, from the instructions, "ISO image of production GTX560M Vbios. Burn image to CD and reboot system. Press F12 to choose CD/DVD drive. When prompted, press Y." If you don't have any burning software, download InfraRecorder or CDBurnXP.

Get InfraRecorder instead. It's open source, free, doesn't include extra stuff like that, and it's available as InfraRecorder Portable for use on USB drives and cloud drives.

Theoretically, yes; but it is a headache. Windows XP's support for booting off of a USB understandably, awful. You have to keep a few things in mind:

• You cannot use USB 3.0 ports.
• You can only boot Windows XP on legacy BIOS systems. Modern UEFI systems will not work. CSM/legacy support varies by motherboard manufacturer.
• Some systems will just simply have a USB controller that is too new for Windows XP to understand. They will not work, period.

Additionally, make sure that you understand that Windows XP is no longer supported, and that if you decide to connect a Windows XP machine to a network, you are putting every other machine on that network at risk as well.

With everything in mind, here are the steps to create a Windows XP boot USB from a CD:

1. Download & install InfraRecorder and Rufus.
2. Insert the Windows XP install disc into your PC.
3. Run InfraRecorder and select 'Read Disc'.
4. Select the Windows XP disc and choose a location to save the ISO file to be created.
5. Once the ISO file has been created, insert the USB drive you wish to use and then run Rufus.
6. Choose the USB drive from the 'Device' drop-down list, and click on the 'SELECT' button beside 'Boot selection' 'Disk or ISO image (Please select)'
7. Make sure Partition scheme is set to MBR, Target system is set to BIOS, and File system is set to FAT32.
8. Click on 'START' and wait for it to complete.

>I was using Windows media player

That might be your problem. Windows Media Player doesn't support FLAC natively. Try using InfraRecorder or another CD burner program instead.

Create images of your discs (.ISO files) with Daemon Tools or InfraRecorder. You'll be able to play them back in VLC, or you can burn them to writable dual layer DVDs.

Finding an older computer and running Win2000 or WinXP is probably your best bet for easy. Linux might be able to handle it. Locating old Pentium III or P4 machine shouldn't be terribly hard if necessary and there were CD burners back then. If at all possible you should on-board IDE ports or an IDE controller card. There were totally CD burners back then, although you may need a separate CD burning software package for good results. InfraRecorder supports 2000 and XP for sure.

Go ahead and try one of the Core2 machines, you have nothing to lose. It should be completely fine to run 32 bit OSes on 64 bit hardware and the type of memory shouldn't matter. You would of course be capped at 3-3.5gb usable ram due to 32 bit OSes and Windows. Also Win2000/WinXP will likely only recognize and/or use one processor (or core).

I wouldn't go back to Win98 or Win98 SE unless you absolutely have to.

P.S.
Does your IDE-USB device work with older CD or DVD drives? Both CD drives and IDE ZIP drives used ATAPI.

Oh if you have a CD/DVD drive you should be able to. In fact Microsoft provides the disc image here for free. You just need to burn it to a disc using something like InfraRecorder (quick tutorial) and of course have your windows 10 product key handy for when the install starts.

No, you have to take the hard drive out of the old computer, put it in an enclosure to turn it into an external hard drive, and then plug that into another laptop.

An alternative that wouldn't require this is to create a bootable CD running some form of Linux and use that to browse the hard drive and copy the files over to your thumb drive. A good, light-weight version of Linux you can use is Puppy Linux; the ISO file is available here: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-slacko-6.3.2/32/

Direct Link to ISO: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-slacko-6.3.2/32/slacko-6.3.2-uefi.iso

Use a program like InfraRecorder to burn the ISO image file to a CD (you can't just drag and drop it to a blank CD, the image has to be burned properly for it to be bootable). http://infrarecorder.org/

CDBurnerXP is a common choice.

ImgBurn is also popular.

(Watch out for the adware installers.)

Edit: Some people recommend http://infrarecorder.org

Also, windows is capable of burning discs.

Compact Discs are stored in the ISO-9660 standard. The DVD expanded this, and is stored in UDF format. When you make an image of either of these, they're referred to as an "ISO" file (Blu-Rays can also be stored as ISOs, but at 50GB and more, they can be a bit unwieldy.) If you're looking to copy a disc to an ISO file, the easiest method is to use InfraRecorder - assuming the disc is NOT copy-protected. Just open the program and tell it to make an image. Also, if you have an ISO file, this program can also write it to disc for you (granted, Windows 7 now includes that ability by default).

Standard DVD players should be able to read mp4 containers, you'll just have to verify AV codecs compatibility (mediainfo).

Otherwise, http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5

Frisky_Frogs, I'm assuming you are using Hirens Boot CD on the job? If so USB may not be an option. If you are using Windows, this is a good option for making bootable DVDs from an ISO image. It's what I use because where I work USB devices are blocked by policy. Not sure what your position is where you work but I'd check with the IASO, IAM or at least read through the AUP before using Hirens on a workstation especially if that workstation is on a domain.

There should be a button (or button combination) to press during the initial boot of the machine that would allow you to bring up the boot menu, and manually select the DVD drive right then and there. What to press depends on the model and manufacturer of the machine. It might be the ESC key, F3, F12, etc. If you can't figure this out on your own, check with a manual on the manufacturer's website.

If this fails, try to burn another disk with a different program. I'd recommend this one:

http://infrarecorder.org/

Go to http://www.memtest.org/

Download the " Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip) "

Use something along the lines of Infrarecorder to burn the ISO to a DVD, after you have extracted it from the zip folder.

Put the disk in the drive, boot up your computer. If it asks you if you want to boot from a dvd, select yes.

Here's a tutorial: http://www.custompcblog.com/troubleshooting/memtest86-memtest-86-tutorial-guide

They say to use Nero, but I prefer Infrarecorder.

If you're not familiar with burning .iso images then you'll need some program capable of burning them first. I recommend InfraRecorder. Once you have the .iso file downloaded, launch InfraRecorder and select Write Image from the first page. Then it will ask you to locate the .iso file to burn. Navigate to your download location and select the file. Press OK and it will then ask you to insert a blank CD. Do so, modify any options you'd prefer (e.g. if you want to the disk to eject when finished), then press OK to start the burn. That's it!

You have to burn the .iso file in a special way. If you just copy the files to a DVD as a data disc it won't boot. Here's a guide to burning an .iso file to disc with InfraRecorder.

Exactly what I meant by dragging-and-dropping. Don't feel ashamed, we all make mistakes.

You can download InfraRecorder (a great free ISO burning utility) here. Report back if you happen to have any problems afterwards.

Sure.. Try burning an Ubuntu Live CD from your Alienware (I use http://infrarecorder.org/ but it's been a long time since I burnt a disk using Windows). Put it in your mac. (Hold down alt to have it ask you which thing to boot from.) Then try accessing your files. If it works you might be able to get your Mac back by reinstalling OS X.
You might try booting your Alienware with the Ubuntu Live CD with your external drive attached but I'm not sure if that will work. I think it will probably allow you to mount the HFS+ formatted drive but then all you will see is a .sparsebundle file.. I'm not sure. It's not FAT formatted right? Currently Windows doesn't show you what is inside the drive?
If you have another Mac it should be able to access the stuff on your external drive but I guess you wouldn't be here if you did.
The hard way is still to take the hard drive from the inside of your Mac and install it into your Alienware. Then boot from the Ubuntu Live CD and try to transfer the stuff you want off the drive. This will only work if none of your stuff is encrypted. You also need someplace to store your stuff because your Alienware's hard drive will be disconnected.
If you don't want to access your Alienware's hard drive slot piolytar's suggestion might be helpful.