What's the difference between burning an ISO and copying a DVD's contents?
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Is converting a DVD to an ISO, and then burning that ISO onto another DVD exactly the same thing as copying all the files from one DVD to another? What about if instead of copying to another DVD, I copied to a USB flash drive (i.e. DVD > USB), would it still be the same thing as DVD > ISO > USB? If…
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The major advantage of an ISO is that burning it as an image preserves the bootloader, where extracting and burning the contents does not. The bootloader needs to go on a specific part of the CD/DVD/USB drive for it to be bootable. Just burning the …
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