burning iso files to a cd

[smooth3006]

hey all, i hope im posting this in the right section ??

i want to install windows vista to my blank ide drive. i need to burn the iso files to a standard cd with my cdburner so i can boot up the computer and install from there instead of within windows. i have xp running on a sata drive and i want to install vista to the blank ide drive without partitioning it.


anybody have any idea's ???

[mwb1100]

The "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools" (which work on WinXP) has cdburn and dvdburn utilities that write .iso images to media. They are freely downloadable:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/

[mlcboarder]

wow that just helped me too thanks

[sux2bu]

Just to clarify, you're talking about taking what's already an ISO and turning it into a working CD (not just putting the ISO onto a CD is what I'm trying to get at).

I swear MagicISO has an option where you can make a CD copy of the ISO you have but it's been a little while since I goofed with that particular program so I'm not entirely sure. Plus I don't have a full version at the moment...