vista burning

[godsdog]

A Damn Small Linux ISO burnt in Vista and XP works just peachy on everything it touches. Thank you very much.

[schmunk]

The file burnt fine to the disk.........

However, when he went to run it he was told by the OS (Vista) that he must use XP to play the disk.

Thats what made me think that the original ISO image was created using XP.

Im just summising but i cant think of another explanation.

Is that not just a bit of crappy coding for a game that needs the Windows OS to be AT LEAST XP, but has been incorrectly coded as that it needs to BE XP, on the basis that there was nothing more recent for it to be at the time the game was coded?

[Skinleech]

Is that not just a bit of crappy coding for a game that needs the Windows OS to be AT LEAST XP, but has been incorrectly coded as that it needs to BE XP, on the basis that there was nothing more recent for it to be at the time the game was coded?

I'd agree here. I've never heard of an ISO burned on one OS not working on another.

[gman1981]

I agree with scmunk, it's probably that the program in the iso is giving the message, not the fact that it has been burnt on XP.

[Agent]

It'll work, provided that the file system that the .ISO contains is readable under the OS you are trying to use it on
If there is an OS issue like XP/Vista that Blitzen was saying, its a bug in the program or a faulty drive. The entire point of an ISO standard is to define the way the data is presented. Its OS independent.

[unclecrash]

Hi all and thanks for the replies.

Here is the full story

I work in house clearance and removed a pc as part of the job. The previous owner had died and the son wasn't interested in keeping the pc nor did he know the password. I had previously heard of ophcrack and so kept the pc in the hope i could get the password and the kids could have a pc each rather than share.

I downloaded ophcrack and burnt the iso on vista o/s using roxio. Roxio formatted the drive and burn't the disc
I checked the program on the laptop i downloaded and burnt on and ophcrack retrieved all the passwords.

I tried it on the new pc nothing happened. Booted normally to password screen

I put the disc into our other pc (xp) and nothing. Once pc had started i checked the cd drive and clicked to see contents of disc and got the following message. "insert disc into the drive"

Just to double check i ran the disc on vista again and it is in working order.

[unclecrash]

I checked other disc brands (imation tdk sony and Mr DVD) some work some don't
but on vista they all work.

From memory the ones that do work on xp are more likely to have been burnt on xp or older o/s although i can't be certain.

[Blitzen]

Is that not just a bit of crappy coding for a game that needs the Windows OS to be AT LEAST XP, but has been incorrectly coded as that it needs to BE XP, on the basis that there was nothing more recent for it to be at the time the game was coded?

No idea!
I am just relaying what i have seen

[matty-hodgson]

Surely ISO is OS independant, it all depends on what is in/on the ISO?]

surely Microsoft wouldn't muck about with a standard...?

oh i dunno.. i'm sure they would you know