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How to burn a 8.5GB ISO?

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Mar 15, 202625541 views
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I have an ISO image of a DVD which is 8.5GB in size. I find this strange, because that is about 500MB more than a standard DL DVD can hold. I tried overburning with Nero, but it failed. Is it possible to somehow burn such an image? Are there some special DVD blanks that allow you to write more? Or …

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The max size of a DVD+R DL is 8,547,991,552 bytes...so maybe the person creating the ISO thought this meant 8.5GB, and created one that was too big? Or if you ripped this from a commercial DVD, real dual layer DVDs can actually hold more than DVD+R …

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