ISO compression

[mikey_dude]

Hi there,

I understand that files in the form of a .iso image can be compressed in some way so they can be burned onto a 700mb CD, and when burned, appear to be their original size.

Does anyone know of any good software that will compress an iso image so I can place more than a gigs worth of data onto a CD?

Thanks.

[DragonNOA1]

From my understanding an ISO is a bit by bit copy of a CD. Nero has an option to burn an ISO onto a CD.

[mikey_dude]

Yep I use Nero to write the ISO image but I've seen sizes from 700mb before and when written to a CD, expand to 1.3gb.

I would like know of any software that may be able to do this if anybody knows of any?!

Thanks!

[Statica]

That would be beyond the physical storage limitations of a CD; unless the contents of the program decompressed the data on CD to grow it to 1.3GB

[mikey_dude]

Well, I'm not sure how its done, but I've seen it before: 1.13GB on a 700MB CD!

Strange.

[AerynSedai]

is it a copywrited cd?
you are probably trying to read a copy protected cd. one form of copy protection spoofs windows (or the reader, but i think it is an os issue) into thinking the files are larger than they really are.

delta force was the first game i saw with that protection. it is a neat trick.

AS

[mikey_dude]

Hmm its unlikely in this case. I think its a neat trick by removing duplicate files and replacing them with links, thus creating more space.

Bring on the DVD writer......