While creating bootable USB with Rufus you may experience some errors such as: extract ISO image error (ISO image extraction failure), not be formatted USB because it is reported as USB protected (Write Potected). Quantrimang.com has a tutorial on how to solve these errors are quite specific, then you refer to offline. Check the MD5 of your ISO which too few people know you can ACTUALLY do using Rufus! Just click on the (✓) button next to SELECT (Rufus 3.0 or later) or the # button at the bottom of the Rufus interface (Rufus 2.18 or earlier) after selecting your ISO. There is no need to use another tool. Browse: Home Teknologi Cara mengatasin 'error:ISO image extraction failure' di RUFUS Cara mengatasin 'error:ISO image extraction failure' di RUFUS Posted by Dahri Musnandar at Wednesday, September 23, 2015 18 comments. Rip DVD ISO image to MKV and other formats with fastest speed while keeping high quality; Back up DVD to MP4, AVI, MPG, MKV, DIVX, XVID, VP9, H264, H265 and more; Extract soundtrack out of DVD(TV show, film, music DVD, tutorial DVD) Full support DVD Folder and ISO image as well.
The other day I decided to upgrade and rebuild my test PC. This is simply a machine I can use for installing and trying out software as well as trying slightly more adventurous things out I wouldn’t, or couldn’t do on my normal machine. Sometimes a virtual machine might do the job, but often there’s no substitute for getting the required tasks done on real hardware for the most accurate results. Some of you will probably have an old second PC or laptop and use it in a similar way.
One thing you do want when using a system that you know is going to have issues, is a complete backup of the operation system. The System Restore option or snapshot software like Comodo Time Machine might get things back running, but there’s nothing like restoring the Windows installation to a known completely clean and stable state.
Bearing that in mind, I made a bootable USB stick and created some backups using EaseUs Todo Backup Workstation. Unfortunately, I put the recovery files on a slow stick and it took forever to boot into the backup software. It was then I remembered that there exists the ability to take an ISO image and get it to boot from hard drive using the Windows Vista and 7 Boot Manager. This would make booting into the recovery environment far quicker and also removes the need to use a CD or plug in a USB stick every time.
The software I used to achieve this is EasyBCD from Neosmart Technologies and it’s free for non commercial use. EasyBCD has a large amount of options for editing and creating entries for the Windows Bootloader and has helped me out quite a few times. Although the program does not come as a portable version, you can simply create your own by opening the installer and extracting it with 7zip.There are also options to mount Virtual Hard Disk images, WinPE Ram disks, Floppy images and Raw disk / partition images. The option to be looked at here is the ISO function which will put an entry into the boot menu and then boot from the ISO you have selected. Firstly start the program, you will begin in the View settings window which shows the current entries in the Boot Manager.
As incorrectly making changes to the Boot menu could potentially cause none of your operating systems to boot, it’s a good idea to make a backup of the Bootloader settings first. Click ‘BCD Backup/Repair‘, choose a location to save the backup to and then click ‘Backup settings‘.
To create the ISO Boot Manager entry:
1. Click the ‘Add New Entry‘ button.
2. In the Portable/External Media window click the ISO tab.
3. In the Name: box, enter the text to appear on the Windows boot menu
4. For the Mode: dropdown, use Load from memory if your ISO is relatively small (less than ~200MB). Select Run from Disk for anything bigger.
5. Point to the ISO file you want to boot from in the Path: box. Make sure not to move or rename the file after adding it to the menu or it obviously won’t boot.
6. Click Add Entry.
If you go back to the View settings window, the new entry should now be entered into the list. There will be a new folder called ‘NST’ created in the root of the partition where the Bootloader is located, make sure not to delete it. Close EasyBCD.
Now when you reboot your Vista or Win 7 machine the options will be visible on the Windows Boot Manager and are selectable like any other option. You may have to scroll down to see all the entries if you have entered quite a few.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Do be aware that not all ISO’s will work using this boot method and Linux distro’s are known to be a little troublesome. All the images in the above screenshot worked fine, but for example, Parted Magic did not work from Hirens Boot CD but works fine using its own standalone image. The Hiren MiniXP and the older Hiren version of RIP Linux work OK though. Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 did not work. Although I have not tried this myself, I have heard of someone successfully mounting and installing Windows 7 using this method. It is simply a case of try it and see.
This method is obviously dependent on being able to get to the Windows Boot Manager in the event of a system crash. It is highly recommended NOT to try this on your main / only machine if you are not 100% confident you know what you are doing.
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ReplyAwesome sharing man!!! very useful @ certain times like Windows crashes or boot time bluescreen errors
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For WinPE images, don’t use the boot from ISO tool in EasyBCD since it doesn’t boot correctly. Instead, extract the WinPE ISO wherever you want. Then in EasyBCD choose Add new entry > WinPE > Navigate to the folder where you extracted the ISO > Choose sourcesboot.wim. This will boot the WinPE WIM file instead of the ISO.
ReplyHello Raymond, you mentioned Hiren’s MiniXP could be added using EasyBCD but… how??
I have tried the ISO option using the XP.BIN since there is no ISO in Hiren’s MiniXP folder but it only boots to a grub console.
Just looking for this issue in the net…
and as usual… the search ends at your site…
No more need to be said!
Thanks!
i will use this no doubt use this to use my windows 7 sp1 iso incase something goes wrong… great idea one of the strongest hardest things to break in windows is the boot menu.
ReplyI know this is an old post but i have been gone along time. Ray you have posted so much i need to catch up on i just created a Raymond.CC folder in favorites and add the article for later reference there is so much and no way i could absorb iut all. your the best
ReplyIt’s actually a nice and helpful piece of information. I’m satisfied that you simply shared this useful information with us. Please stay us up to date like this. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyThanks!
Replyhi!
firstly, thanks for this articulate article. this could be of big use for those not yet exposed in retrieving / restoring Windows installation to a known completely clean and stable state.
but i thought it was raymond himself the author and then found our it is …hal9000.
anyway, i thought this may be of help too! once, raymond himself posted about using macrium reflect, the free edition(version 4.2, build number 3141). I still use it and it’s hassle-free!
-@bsoluto:)
Great great tutorial and software with excellent suggestions! I have used a number of backup and disk mirror strategies in the past, but this really seems like a fine and easy method to insure a stable alternate recovery with a known OS image. I might also suggest that one might easily create an updated ISO image with your existing documents and settings, using any of several reliable ISO burning tools, such as Magic ISO or WINISO, etc.
Thanks a lot for this, I will definitely play with this strategy and duplicate for clients and friends if it proves as easy as I think it will be. :-)
ReplyI read about similar operation to boot hirens boot cd from windows boot manager. Thanks for completing this procedure.
ReplyHello, Raymond,
could you write more for Mac users?
I suppose that I am not the only one who need more good quality assistance about Mac
Best wishes
Bob
Thanks Ray. I always use this software during dual boot.
ReplyWow…Good Tutorial.
ReplyI was surprised when I was reading this article’s title, terrific article hal9000.
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ISO file, which is also known as a disc image, has .iso file extension. It contains a copy of the entire CD/DVD from which it was extracted. It means when you burn an ISO file to a blank disc, you’ll get the same files, folders, and properties as the original disc.
ISO files are used to distribute disc images. For example, iso files for operating systems like Ubuntu (Linux distro) could be downloaded from the net and then burnt to a CD to create a bootable operating system disc.
This tutorial will discuss three things:-
- Extracting an iso file from a CD or DVD.
- Burning an iso image to a disc.
- Mounting an iso image as a virtual drive.
How to extract ISO files from a disc
Extracting iso files from CDs and keeping them safe could be useful. Suppose you are considering backing up your Windows installation disc. Of course you could backup your data using Windows Backup and restore feature. But it might be beneficial to make a personal copy of the Windows installation DVD so that you can use it in case you lose your original disc.
To backup your DVD you cannot simply copy and paste the data inside it. You have to create an ISO image of the disc so that it copies all the data i.e. files, folders and properties of disc.
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To extract an ISO file from any CD or DVD you can use a free and very small utility (14 KB size) known as LC ISO Creator. Download the zip file and extract it anywhere on your computer. Now open LCISOCreator.exe by double clicking on it (no need to install this program).
Select the disc for which you want to create the ISO image from the drop down menu, and click on “Create ISO” button. Select the location on your computer where you want to save the image and click save. It will take some time to convert your disc to image, depending on the size of disc.
How to burn ISO image to disc
Now comes burning an iso image to a CD or DVD. There are a number of image burning tools available for that purpose. We will use a popular one – Imgburn.
1. Download and install Imgburn on your computer. Open the application.
2. Click on “Write image file to disc”.
3. Now select the ISO file by clicking on folder icon given under “Source”. After selecting correct destination drive, writing speed and number of copies click on the image file to disc icon (check the screenshot below) to start the disc burning process. Check the verify option if you want to verify disc after burning.
If you are using rewritable disc and it already has some data inside it then it will warn you to erase your data before starting the burn process.
After confirmation, Imgburn will start burning the ISO image file to disc. You can see the status on the window.
After completion, it will eject the disc tray. Insert the disc again and it will start verifying the data on disc. It will take some time depending upon size of CD/DVD to verify the data.
After completion a small pop up window will appear with a sound alert confirming it.
How to mount an ISO image
Mounting an iso image simply means creating a virtual CD/DVD ROM drive that Windows can access just like a physical CD/DVD drive. When required, you could use that drive like you would use the disc, without requiring the actual disc.
There is a free tool known as Daemon tools Lite which does this task pretty effectively.
Download and install this tool on your computer. Open it by double clicking on the icon.
Now firstly you have to create a Virtual drive. For this, right click on the lower empty space and select “Add SCSI Virtual Drive”.
A virtual drive will be created as Device 0: [G:] No media (check the screenshot below). Now click on the “Device parameters” button as shown in screenshot below.
In the DVD region, click on the drop down and select 1. You are also free to select any drive letter from the drop down. After selecting drive letter and DVD region click OK.
Now right click on the virtual drive you created in the previous step and select “Mount”.
Now select Disc image file (ISO file) from the windows explorer and click “Open”.
Now go to My computer. You will see the ISO image is mounted as a drive. You can click on this drive to run it as CD/DVD.
So that’s how you can create, burn and mount ISO files on your computer. There are several other free tools to perform these tasks.
We’d like to hear from you if you know of any other effective tools or any ISO image related tips and tricks.
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