Burn images to images

[sag47]

Recently I encountered an issue where I wish to mount an IMG. The problem is the program I wish to mount it does not support IMG so I wish to convert it to an ISO. It occurred to me that ImgBurn can both read and write IMG and ISO image formats so I thought, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I could just have ImgBurn read from one image and write to another image?"

 

So here I am. For now I'll be using a terminal program to convert it but I think this functionality will be unique to this software which would help improve it's own worth against competitors.

 

I think ImgBurn is a great product!

[eSkRo]

not to discourage you but i know LUK's reply's gonna be --> Nope

 

Edited January 24, 2010 by eSkRo

[LIGHTNING UK!]

IMG and ISO image are typically the same thing, I assume you tried just changing the file extension? Or select 'All Files' in the 'Open' box within the program that doesn't support IMG files and load it that way.

 

eSkRo is right though, I have no interest in implementing this as a feature.

 

When you make your own images, you have total control over the format you use.

[sag47]

For whatever reason I can't reply to my own topics getting a "You cannot reply to this topic" message on the buttons. Can you tell me how to fix that?

 

In response to: http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=13476

 

IMG and ISO image are typically the same thing, I assume you tried just changing the file extension? Or select 'All Files' in the 'Open' box within the program that doesn't support IMG files and load it that way.

Just tried it and didn't work.

 

When you make your own images, you have total control over the format you use.

I agree with that statement. I use mkisofs to build my Linux images and other misc boot disks. However I have a boot disk that is in IMG format and simply wish to test it with my copy of VMWare. Rather than going through the trouble of extracting the boot files and then figuring out where the catalogs and boot loaders are, and then deciding the correct command to use to create the ISO in a format similar (if not possibly exact) to its original intent. A process which usually takes multiple tries and many hours to do on my system (I know because I've done it). When it would be easy to simply have the image reading class and the image writing class of your program communicate to create the exact image in a different format.

 

I guess what I'm arguing is I don't see why that is such a disagreeable feature when it can make a complicated task such as that be very simple. And unlike many suggestions, I'm sure, I don't feel this implementation would cause feature creep in the software.

 

After some reading around the forum by happenstance I found another user which is interested in this feature so I'm not the only one.

 

Thanks for the prompt replies btw.

Edited January 24, 2010 by sag47

[eSkRo]

use Virtual CloneDrive (freeware image mounter).......