The Ubuntu Guide web site runs down how to turn your CDs/DVDs and folders into .iso disk images. The process even demonstrates how to create your own MD5 checksum files. This surprisingly simple ...

An ISO disc image is a special file that stores the contents of an entire CD or DVD on your computer hard drive. Keeping an ISO backup of expensive software such as Microsoft Office on your computer ...

An ISO image is an exact copy of the data on an optical disc, such as a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc. Using the right software, you can create ISO images from optical discs and use them in place of the ...

An ISO file is a digital copy of a disk image that has been extracted from physical media. Creating ISOs is a great way to archive physical discs, which are likely to degrade over time. You can mount ...

If you want to make copy of a DVD but you don't have a blank DVD in hand, you can create a DVD disc image and save it to your hard drive. The disc image can be then burned to DVD readable by a living ...

Reader Forrest Bourke seems lost in the woods in regard to making disk images compatible with Windows. He writes: How do I make an ISO image? Create a folder of the stuff you want to put in the image.

I'd prefer not to have an ISO image 55GB in size, I'd like it to be of just what i have installed which right now is about 900 MB. I tried to 'dd' it but it created a 55GB image (size of the hard ...