The problem you likely encountered is that. The actual link to download lubuntu is here: I went to the lubuntu website and clicked on the download link which resulted in a single ZIP file. I really recommend configuring Windows to show file name extensions by default, it avoids many confusing problems like this, allowing you to identify files based on their whole name instead of just relying on the icons. iso file would get a similar icon to, say, a. iso file whatever icons the archive application might use. iso files, and therefore tend to (at least on Windows) assign the files to themselves, giving the. zip (or similar) archive is that many archiving programs are able to extract the contents of. iso file itself, or it's contents, doesn't work.Īlso, the reason why you though that the file you downloaded was a. Kind of like if it was a photograph of the exact structure of a CD (which is why they are called disk images)Īs a result, you need to burn the CD using a program that can duplicate the file system contained in the. iso files are disk images, which means that instead of just containing a bunch of files, they actually contain the whole file system, exactly as it would be if it was an actual physical CD and not just a file on your computer. iso file in it, you want to burn a CD that's exact copy of the. The thing is you don't want to burn a CD with the. If there is a difference, why isn't the software provided in Windows? What's the difference between using free burning software and simply dragging icons onto the CD in Windows? To avoid confusion, I recommend a small, free and fully functional Windows application for burning CD/DVDs called CDBurnerXP: Works on XP and up iso file onto a blank CD, Windows will assume that you want to burn that FILE ONTO a CD, not to burn a bootable CD. The poster made a mistake because he burned a CD as a data CD, so that CD was not bootable, you can't burn a bootable CD by dragging files to it. (thats if you don't have another CD/DVD burning software installed and set up as default. iso image and Windows will burn it as a functional bootable CD. Windows 7 has a dead simple tool for burning. I know XP can burn CD/DVDs, but it's been a while I used XP for burning a CD.

Windows has a built in burning application, it just lacks advanced options that other burning software offers.

Of course, I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Dragging and dropping in the CD drive in windows won't work.Īs to why it won't work, my guess is that windows doesn't want you replacing your operating system. If you want to burn one, you'll have to get one of the many available free programs for that. Windows doesn't support burning iso files to a disc last I checked.

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