ISO larger than 700 mb

I_AM_DA_KID · #1 31-07-2002, 20:42

i need help,

i just bought sims vacation and i used clonyxxl and it said that the cd is 654 mb BUT when i make a image file with clone cd, the image size is 752 mb. WHY is this? when i use clonyxxl to read the simsvacation ISO it STILL says its 654 mb. in clony it says simvacation has safedisc v2 security and has the 'overburn' and 'bad sectors' boxes checked. if anybody can help me to make this iso the RIGHT size please respond. i want to back it up just in case. thanx

v3688e · #2 31-07-2002, 22:45

Just burn using CloneCD with the setting that ClonyXXL recommended should be ok.

I suggest u to use CD-RW first, to test whether the backup disc work or not.

fraggle03 · #3 31-07-2002, 23:29

u need a burner which supports 800MB-dics e.g. the liteon24x

munsterbuster · #4 01-08-2002, 04:30

Or use the Daemon tool. It can look into the Image and you can install from the Image before burning to see if its good.

RincewindTheWiz · #5 01-08-2002, 16:15

Or, you might want to learn the difference between the size of the .img file, and the size of the data actually written to disc.

ISO's in general always contain more than just the data on the disc. Hence image files are always bigger than the amount of data the disc contains. In your case the .img file is 752Mb, with probably a 30Megs .sub file and a small .ccd file. If you tried to burn these files on a cd without using them as an iso, so you'd get and .img file in the root dir of the cd, you would need 800Mb discs to burn it.

But if you load the iso in clonecd, clonecd will extract all the data necessary from the image and you can use a simple 73 minute cdr.

Understood ? The size of the cdr needed is usually the .img file size minus about 100Mb of extra data which only the burner program needs.

I_AM_DA_KID · #6 01-08-2002, 19:14

OK, I get it now, u explained so perfectly that i get it now,thanx

by the way, iburn the iso to a cd and it worked fine...justwanted to put the iso,cue,and sub file onto a cd so i can use daemon, but burning a iso is much better, thanx

RincewindTheWiz · #7 02-08-2002, 07:40

I sometimes actually do that. I don't have a good burner for safedisc 2 so if I want to have an exact copy, I can't burn it like that because the copy protection would kick in. Compressing the iso with winRAR and then burning that .rar file is sometimes the only way for me to backup the exact copy.