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ISO Info

This page is technical

This page is for those that are wandering why their darn! ISO files won’t work.  I thought that ISO image files were made for CD ROM drives only. An ISO image, is an archive file of an optical disc, So ISO image files for USB Drives can be very confusing and complicated. Understanding the ISO is beyond the scope of this text. The USB drive is very much like a hard drive, in that they have a partition table that can divide the USB Drive in to four or more sections. let’s  say you have a 16 gig USB Drive. It will most likely have 16,370,046 sectors. If you copy all of the sectors in the USB Drive starting from sector 1 to the last sector, and put it in to a file, you will have an ISO file. Let’s say then your USB drive takes a dump. If you copy the sectors back in the same order you will restore the USB Drive back to a working system. How ever the ISO image file will only work on you USB Drive or an Identical drive. (The same brand, model, and size)  All bets are off if you try to copy the ISO file to a different brand USB Drive. It may not work. Even if it has the exact same sector count. why? the drive parameters are different. (sector, heads, cylinders count are different). So there are no plans for this type of ISO image on this site.

So how about making an ISO file for just one partition. This has more merit but is not tonally foolproof. The operating system that is inside the ISO has to under stand all the different drive parameters, and be able to adjust to them. Then this ISO file can be moved from drive to drive without any modifications. Finally you can’t copy an ISO file to a USB drive while you are using that drive. You will have to unmount it. Then using  a special copy command copy it from a different drive  to the USB Drive. (Just like the CD ROM. You can’t make the ISO file for the CD while you are in the CD file system.) So the ISO stuff is on hold until a workable simple system found.