Writing ISO images in WinXP
So, I had to make a bootable CD to redo Grace’s computer, and I created the ISO image as expected from bcd. Given a WinXP installation without buying such things as Nero or Roxio, how does one burn CDs from ISO images? The built-in CD writing interface doesn’t obviously provide this functionality.
So, Google gives me BurnAtOnce. It’s nifty free-for-non-commercial-use software, built on free tools such as Cygwin, mkisofs and so on. It’s basically a GUI front-end to these things, and at first glance appears to do everything Roxio does, at least in terms of generating data CDs. I didn’t look at it in terms of generating music CDs.
There was one hitch in setting it up. I already have Cygwin installed, and this seemed to confuse BurnAtOnce in terms of finding ATAPI devices. The fix was to copy my current Cygwin1.DLL file to the external directory of BurnAtOnce, overwriting what’s there. Once that was done, BurnAtOnce found the available ATAPI devices without a problem.