2 iso's on one DVD

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  1. frylocks

    frylocks Member

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    Ok i made an ISO of the game Manhunt for pc. Both ISO's disc one and disc two, is it possible to put both CD 1 and CD 2 on a single dvd?
     
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    Yes, it will fit on a DVD-9.
     
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    I know it's about 1.3 gigs total. What i want to know is if i burn both to one dvd can i use them seperately or will both of the disc files be mixed up?
     
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    Let's be clear.

    You can only burn one .iso image per piece of media---if you OPEN the image. As in, file/open/ choose the file, burn in your favorite program.

    You can fit 4.7Gb or 9.2Gb of data on a dvd5 or 9, if you burn as DATA. Meaning physically drag the .iso's onto the disc. However, if you do this, your computer will NOT recognize these as separate discs, it's merely two hunks of data.

    Any image file is a self contained disc, it tells the software how and where to burn, contains an md5 checksum that the software might check, and does NOT look like .iso after you have burned the disc, there is a full file architecture on the disc, not just one file.

    So, yes, you can fit them on the disc. You will not be able to install or run the program from that disc. Your best option is to mount the images w/ Alcohol or Daemon Tools (Alcohol > Daemon), tricking your computer into thinking there's a disc in the drive.

    Disk=hard disk, floppy disk, physically moving data.
    Disc=optical data, DVD or CD, Laser Disc, Blu-Ray, HDDVD.

    Hope that helps.
    ~Melee
     

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