I downloaded an ISO of an old graphical adventure game that is no longer available for purchase. When trying to burn this ISO to a CD using Nero 7 Express, I encounter some problems. After selecting the ISO for burning, I get a message saying: "The entered block size does not correspond to the image length. The block size may be wrong. Do you want to correct the value, or ignore the problem?" If I click ignore, and then try to burn, I get a message saying that the CD I am burning onto does not have enough space. It says that the ISO requires 1200 meg to burn (although the original ISO I downloaded was only 550 meg or so). If I try to correct the value, another window opens asking me to change some things. First it asks to change the type of image (Data mode 1,2,audio,HFS), whether or not i want raw data, block size (2048 or 2352), Image header size, image trailer size, and scrambled or swapped. I really have no idea what these different settings corespond to. Could someone please help me? Thanks a lot for the help! Nicko
Dear NickoSwim, Downloaded files often contain errors. To play safe, you may want first to mount the iso onto a virtual drive, then copy all the contents back onto the regular harddisk. If all goes well, you can then burn the folder to disc. Good luck!
Alright, I did as you said. Made an image of the ISO on a virtural drive, then copied all the files directly to the HD. Then I burned everything on a CD. When I pop the CD in, and it tries to auto-run, I get a message saying "cannot find clusters in either D:\clusters or F:\" Also, If I try double-clicking on any of the install/run icons on the virtural drive, I get the same message. Please help! Nicko
The files I downloaded took about 2 days through BitTorrent. The size of the 2 files is a combined 1100 meg. each file coresponds to a single disc. I dono what else to do. All this work, and my files are corrupted?
Perhaps, most .iso files are less than the size of a CD, say 750 MBytes, why? because they fit onto one CD. I'm sure that there are some .iso files from a DVD but can't imagine anyone trying to download over 1 Gig on the internet. An .ISO file is a disk image file, so it can't be any larger than the disk it fits on. You mentioned that it is an older game? That in itself should alert you to the fact that it can't be that large to begin with. I would keep looking for a smaller file, or better yet, try E-bay or half.com. Personnally I have never downloaded a game from a bit site and really don't know what it really entails.
Dear NickoSwim, If the iso is not corrupted, then it could be copy protection that's forbidding it from running correctly after copied to disc. You could try mount the iso onto a virtual drive created by e.g. Daemon Tools which handles copy protection and run the game from the virtual drive. If you can run it, then just keep the iso and play the game using this method. Good luck!
