I just Downloaded Gparted and I was going to BURN it to a CD.

But I see all of these things on the net that say don't Cut and Past the iSO File to a CD and use windows to  Writ Data to Disk.

Use a iSO Burning program.

Why and can I use windows just to Burn the File it worked with all my other Files???HERE is a good overview of ISO files, and what makes them different from regular data files.The reason, as far as I see is that, people make the mistake of treating the files with the ISO extension (e.g., files with names like "example.ISO") as just a file (like those you associate with word documents (doc files), a jpeg image (jpg file), etc), and write it to CD.

Any decent CD-burner software will have a special menu selection for writing an ISO file to CD. By writing ISO properly to a CD (or whatever media the ISO is intended for), your disk will be able to autoplay/play like intended. Else, you'll be stuck with a disk that only has one file that cannot be booted into upon pc startup (which is what I THINK you wanted -- after all, there is the gparted Live CD)

ISO is a special file that includes all the data of files contained on the archived CD/DVD, or any other disc format.

Burning ISO to a cd or dvd is something you can not do with windows vista or earlier windows without a THIRD party software. If you have one of those versions of windows, all you can do is to burn data files right to a cd which I think is what you meant when you said "it worked with all my other files", you probably most likely have been burning regular files.

SORRY for long post, hope you understand  
 Use IMGBurn...This is the File
gparted-live-0.4.5-3.iso

Now if I just burn this to a CD With win xp if I understand you it will not work???

So if I use a Program to Burn iSO File  will it do something to the iSO File that just Burnning it to a CD wont do???the ISO is an image. for example, a image of, say the windows XP CD, WOULD be:

WinXP.iso


but we all know, the windows CD is filled with files; not just a single "ISO" file. burning a ISO file "properly" basically means recreating that image right onto another Disc. Quote from: patio on July 06, 2009, 07:33:18 PM

Use IMGBurn...