Posted by Eric Gisin on 11/14/59 11:27

"Maxwell Edison" <MaxwellEdison@medicine.com> wrote in message
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> On 24 Sep 2005 08:01:21 GMT, under@lycos.co.uk (Jeff Korn) wrote:
>
> >When I rip a bootable CD to an ISO image: does that target ISO image contain
> >the boot sector resp. boot functionality as well?
> >
An ISO is all sectors of the session.
"no emulation" contains a boot sector, others contain a floppy image you can extract.

> >In other words: when I burn this ISO image onto another CD is that CD then bootable too?
> >
> >Is it dependent from the ripping software if the boot functionality is fetched
> >as well during the rip process?
> >
> >How could I detect if a given ISO image contains boot record?
> >In CDmage resp. MagicISO I did not found this information.
> >
Use IsoBuster.
>
>
> You know, if you took a 10 cent CDR and burned your ripped ISO, you
> could find out if it would boot.

You cannot get decent CDR for $0.1, only an idiot would do this.
Look at the crap that comes up when you search "Vista" on P2P.
The vast majority are not even Windows ISOs, only 2-3 are real.

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