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  #31  
Old June 18th 19, 03:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Robert in CA wrote:
On Monday, June 17, 2019 at 2:38:07 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:

I'm in the 1001 example; I have two accounts I created,
my Administrator Account and my User Account. I usually
am on my User Account when online but sometimes I have
to go into the Administrator Account like if I need to go
into disk management etc.

So should I proceed?

Thanks,
Robert

You could use the account that belongs to the administrator
group, then re-run the MediaCreationTool program. It's likely
the first account (OOBE) you installed.

This time it should work.

Paul


I logged into my Administrator Account and started to get the
media creation tool then it gave me a pop-up (attached) and
asked if I wanted the following program to make changes to be
made to my computer. That wasn't in your instructions so I
canceled it.

http://i68.tinypic.com/160xym9.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/1089stl.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/mu7h37.jpg

Also every time I go into my Admin Account and then back to my User
Account the pages have shrunk and I have to re-size them. Why does
it do that?

So should I proceed?

Thanks,
Robert


The tool has two purposes:

1) Install an OS
2) Make media instead

The (1) requires elevation, so they put up the
UAC box. But your decision path, takes you along
(2), and the program won't be making changes to your
computer. It's just doing a download and that's it.

So their "rather dumb" decision tree, looks like this.

request elevation
|
|
Now ask the user what they want to do
| |
(1) | | (2)
| |
Install Download ISO file
an
OS

When they could have put things in a slightly
different order.

Don't let that UAC box stop you. Go ahead.

Paul
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  #32  
Old June 18th 19, 07:08 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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I tried to follow your instructions:

http://i65.tinypic.com/1zdcg9y.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/243gm7b.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/vsc9hi.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/o8za5h.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/314qtmu.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/1zbaw76.jpg

At this point I didn't know which to choose so I picked
open DVD burner but nothing happened so I restarted the
process and choose the C: option.

http://i64.tinypic.com/117zc78.jpg

http://i67.tinypic.com/2vw7exl.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/9acm00.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/6nwbkm.jpg

So did I mess up?

I also read the link you said that
would answer most of my questions
but I couldn't follow it at all.

Robert
  #33  
Old June 18th 19, 08:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Robert in CA wrote:
I tried to follow your instructions:

http://i65.tinypic.com/1zdcg9y.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/243gm7b.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/vsc9hi.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/o8za5h.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/314qtmu.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/1zbaw76.jpg

At this point I didn't know which to choose so I picked
open DVD burner but nothing happened so I restarted the
process and choose the C: option.

http://i64.tinypic.com/117zc78.jpg


At this point you have two options:

1) Click "Open DVD Burner" to use the
built-in windows media burning software.

OR

2) Click Finish (and ignore DVD burning).


http://i67.tinypic.com/2vw7exl.jpg


It looks to be calling for a program called "ISOBurn.exe"


http://i64.tinypic.com/9acm00.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/6nwbkm.jpg


The file "Windows media tool.iso" is the same size
as the 64-bit one I got.

You can still try to use the DVD burner if you
want to. Now that you have located the file


So did I mess up?


Nope. You have the file.

All you need now, is to use Imgburn or a similar disc
burning program, one that accepts an ISO9660 file and
makes bootable media from it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/80094/how-...-in-windows-7/

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/burn-...mpt-windows-10

In the example, substitute the drive letter of your
optical drive, in place of D. You can rename the
"Windows media tool.iso" to "Win10x64.iso" and then that's
easier to provide as a absolute path like in the example.

ISOBURN.EXE /Q D: C:\Users\TWC\Desktop\IMAGE.iso

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/burn-...party-software

The ISOBURN.exe is in a system folder on Windows 7.


I also read the link you said that
would answer most of my questions
but I couldn't follow it at all.

Robert

  #34  
Old June 18th 19, 04:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 12:22:36 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:
I tried to follow your instructions:

http://i65.tinypic.com/1zdcg9y.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/243gm7b.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/vsc9hi.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/o8za5h.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/314qtmu.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/1zbaw76.jpg

At this point I didn't know which to choose so I picked
open DVD burner but nothing happened so I restarted the
process and choose the C: option.

http://i64.tinypic.com/117zc78.jpg


At this point you have two options:

1) Click "Open DVD Burner" to use the
built-in windows media burning software.

OR

2) Click Finish (and ignore DVD burning).


http://i67.tinypic.com/2vw7exl.jpg


It looks to be calling for a program called "ISOBurn.exe"


http://i64.tinypic.com/9acm00.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/6nwbkm.jpg


The file "Windows media tool.iso" is the same size
as the 64-bit one I got.

You can still try to use the DVD burner if you
want to. Now that you have located the file


So did I mess up?


Nope. You have the file.

All you need now, is to use Imgburn or a similar disc
burning program, one that accepts an ISO9660 file and
makes bootable media from it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/80094/how-...-in-windows-7/

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/burn-...mpt-windows-10

In the example, substitute the drive letter of your
optical drive, in place of D. You can rename the
"Windows media tool.iso" to "Win10x64.iso" and then that's
easier to provide as a absolute path like in the example.

ISOBURN.EXE /Q D: C:\Users\TWC\Desktop\IMAGE.iso

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/burn-...party-software

The ISOBURN.exe is in a system folder on Windows 7.


I also read the link you said that
would answer most of my questions
but I couldn't follow it at all.

Robert



I tried to burn a CD(Verbatim 12xCD-RW(700MB)
using Imagineburn.

http://i63.tinypic.com/wgu921.jpg

So what do I do now?

Robert
  #35  
Old June 18th 19, 06:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Posts: 11,873
Default Win7 support:

Robert in CA wrote:
On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 12:22:36 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:
I tried to follow your instructions:

http://i65.tinypic.com/1zdcg9y.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/243gm7b.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/vsc9hi.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/o8za5h.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/314qtmu.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/1zbaw76.jpg

At this point I didn't know which to choose so I picked
open DVD burner but nothing happened so I restarted the
process and choose the C: option.

http://i64.tinypic.com/117zc78.jpg

At this point you have two options:

1) Click "Open DVD Burner" to use the
built-in windows media burning software.

OR

2) Click Finish (and ignore DVD burning).

http://i67.tinypic.com/2vw7exl.jpg

It looks to be calling for a program called "ISOBurn.exe"

http://i64.tinypic.com/9acm00.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/6nwbkm.jpg

The file "Windows media tool.iso" is the same size
as the 64-bit one I got.

You can still try to use the DVD burner if you
want to. Now that you have located the file

So did I mess up?

Nope. You have the file.

All you need now, is to use Imgburn or a similar disc
burning program, one that accepts an ISO9660 file and
makes bootable media from it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/80094/how-...-in-windows-7/

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/burn-...mpt-windows-10

In the example, substitute the drive letter of your
optical drive, in place of D. You can rename the
"Windows media tool.iso" to "Win10x64.iso" and then that's
easier to provide as a absolute path like in the example.

ISOBURN.EXE /Q D: C:\Users\TWC\Desktop\IMAGE.iso

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/burn-...party-software

The ISOBURN.exe is in a system folder on Windows 7.

I also read the link you said that
would answer most of my questions
but I couldn't follow it at all.

Robert



I tried to burn a CD(Verbatim 12xCD-RW(700MB)
using Imagineburn.

http://i63.tinypic.com/wgu921.jpg

So what do I do now?

Robert


CD ~700MB === Disc too small
Windows10.iso 3784MB
single layer DVD 4700MB === Windows10 fits on a DVD.
double layer DVD ~9000MB (various movid disc blanks)

You'd need a DVD+R or a DVD-R or the like for the job.

Check your media supply and see what's left in terms
of blank discs.

Paul
  #36  
Old June 18th 19, 10:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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Posts: 785
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On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 10:17:29 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:
On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 12:22:36 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:
I tried to follow your instructions:

http://i65.tinypic.com/1zdcg9y.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/243gm7b.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/vsc9hi.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/o8za5h.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/314qtmu.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/1zbaw76.jpg

At this point I didn't know which to choose so I picked
open DVD burner but nothing happened so I restarted the
process and choose the C: option.

http://i64.tinypic.com/117zc78.jpg
At this point you have two options:

1) Click "Open DVD Burner" to use the
built-in windows media burning software.

OR

2) Click Finish (and ignore DVD burning).

http://i67.tinypic.com/2vw7exl.jpg
It looks to be calling for a program called "ISOBurn.exe"

http://i64.tinypic.com/9acm00.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/6nwbkm.jpg
The file "Windows media tool.iso" is the same size
as the 64-bit one I got.

You can still try to use the DVD burner if you
want to. Now that you have located the file

So did I mess up?
Nope. You have the file.

All you need now, is to use Imgburn or a similar disc
burning program, one that accepts an ISO9660 file and
makes bootable media from it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/80094/how-...-in-windows-7/

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/burn-...mpt-windows-10

In the example, substitute the drive letter of your
optical drive, in place of D. You can rename the
"Windows media tool.iso" to "Win10x64.iso" and then that's
easier to provide as a absolute path like in the example.

ISOBURN.EXE /Q D: C:\Users\TWC\Desktop\IMAGE.iso

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/burn-...party-software

The ISOBURN.exe is in a system folder on Windows 7.

I also read the link you said that
would answer most of my questions
but I couldn't follow it at all.

Robert



I tried to burn a CD(Verbatim 12xCD-RW(700MB)
using Imagineburn.

http://i63.tinypic.com/wgu921.jpg

So what do I do now?

Robert


CD ~700MB === Disc too small
Windows10.iso 3784MB
single layer DVD 4700MB === Windows10 fits on a DVD.
double layer DVD ~9000MB (various movid disc blanks)

You'd need a DVD+R or a DVD-R or the like for the job.

Check your media supply and see what's left in terms
of blank discs.

Paul


I checked everything I have and I don't
have a blank DVD-R. So I guess we have to
wait till I get paid before I can get some
then we can pick this up again.

Is there a brand you would recommend and size?

Thanks,
Robert

  #37  
Old June 18th 19, 11:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Robert in CA wrote:


I checked everything I have and I don't
have a blank DVD-R. So I guess we have to
wait till I get paid before I can get some
then we can pick this up again.

Is there a brand you would recommend and size?

Thanks,
Robert


Verbatim brand are usually pretty good. Maxell were
good. Fujitsu were good. But the last two have
disappeared from places like Staples. Staples started
stocking Staples-brand, and then we have no idea
what supplier makes the discs.

Remembering that, most brands, are not made by the
named companies. They just buy lots of blank discs
from suppliers and put a fancy cake-box around them.

I have some Ritek-branded cake boxes I can get here,
but they're mail-order only and they don't keep them
in the stores. Ritek did not market directly to consumers
at one time, but it's a sign of how desperate the
industry is, when a manufacturer actually puts their
own name on the cake box. When Ritek first appeared
in the store here, a stack of blanks were wrapped
in Saran Wrap :-) It's hard to say in a case like
that, exactly who was wrapping them that way :-)

At one time, my computer store had 3 cubic yards of
blanks on display, a huge brand selection. Today,
it's maybe 0.5 cubic meters and crap like Philips.
Philips of course, not actually making the discs,
and they turned out to be CMC discs.

Paul
  #38  
Old June 19th 19, 04:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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Posts: 785
Default Win7 support:

On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 3:23:34 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:


I checked everything I have and I don't
have a blank DVD-R. So I guess we have to
wait till I get paid before I can get some
then we can pick this up again.

Is there a brand you would recommend and size?

Thanks,
Robert


Verbatim brand are usually pretty good. Maxell were
good. Fujitsu were good. But the last two have
disappeared from places like Staples. Staples started
stocking Staples-brand, and then we have no idea
what supplier makes the discs.

Remembering that, most brands, are not made by the
named companies. They just buy lots of blank discs
from suppliers and put a fancy cake-box around them.

I have some Ritek-branded cake boxes I can get here,
but they're mail-order only and they don't keep them
in the stores. Ritek did not market directly to consumers
at one time, but it's a sign of how desperate the
industry is, when a manufacturer actually puts their
own name on the cake box. When Ritek first appeared
in the store here, a stack of blanks were wrapped
in Saran Wrap :-) It's hard to say in a case like
that, exactly who was wrapping them that way :-)

At one time, my computer store had 3 cubic yards of
blanks on display, a huge brand selection. Today,
it's maybe 0.5 cubic meters and crap like Philips.
Philips of course, not actually making the discs,
and they turned out to be CMC discs.

Paul


what do you think of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-...Y437NRFJ635PMC

Robert
  #39  
Old June 19th 19, 05:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Posts: 11,873
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Robert in CA wrote:


what do you think of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-...Y437NRFJ635PMC

Robert


Those are the Cadillac version of write-once media.
You put your last will and testament on those :-)

This is OS media we're making, and after a couple of
years, becomes less valuable. We wouldn't want to
over-spend, to make Microsoft happy.

$0.50 a unit is a good price.

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-.../dp/B0001LS35M

The Gold ones you were looking at, were a bit more than
$2.00 per unit, in my local currency.

Now, the "decoration" on those DVDs Verbatim is selling
for $0.50 a unit, is pretty hard to take. I hate being
reminded that the movie industry thinks every time
I use a DVD, there's a movie on it. I have a ton of
OS discs here, no movie at all. So far, all my DVDs
have a plain finish on them. To label my media, I put
them in slim jewel boxes, and use a marker on the
jewel box. The marker is easy to remove with isopropyl
alcohol, and so the jewel boxes keep getting re-used.

In some cases, the thing your doing, is CD-sized, and
using Imgburn, you can burn CD-sized projects on DVD
media. So you will burn through that half-cakebox pretty
quickly, relatively speaking.

If you really need CDs (like for a music player in an
old vehicle), then you'd "save" them for those sorts
of occasions. As a result, I go through a lot more
DVDs than CDs now.

Paul
  #40  
Old June 19th 19, 06:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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Posts: 785
Default Win7 support:

On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 9:24:59 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:


what do you think of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-...Y437NRFJ635PMC

Robert


Those are the Cadillac version of write-once media.
You put your last will and testament on those :-)

This is OS media we're making, and after a couple of
years, becomes less valuable. We wouldn't want to
over-spend, to make Microsoft happy.

$0.50 a unit is a good price.

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-.../dp/B0001LS35M

The Gold ones you were looking at, were a bit more than
$2.00 per unit, in my local currency.

Now, the "decoration" on those DVDs Verbatim is selling
for $0.50 a unit, is pretty hard to take. I hate being
reminded that the movie industry thinks every time
I use a DVD, there's a movie on it. I have a ton of
OS discs here, no movie at all. So far, all my DVDs
have a plain finish on them. To label my media, I put
them in slim jewel boxes, and use a marker on the
jewel box. The marker is easy to remove with isopropyl
alcohol, and so the jewel boxes keep getting re-used.

In some cases, the thing your doing, is CD-sized, and
using Imgburn, you can burn CD-sized projects on DVD
media. So you will burn through that half-cakebox pretty
quickly, relatively speaking.

If you really need CDs (like for a music player in an
old vehicle), then you'd "save" them for those sorts
of occasions. As a result, I go through a lot more
DVDs than CDs now.

Paul


I bookmarked your link but your saying I will go through
these pretty quickly but I hardly ever use CD's or DVD's
on the computer unless were doing something like now. So
should I buy 2 packs of these perhaps?


Thanks,
Robert
  #41  
Old June 19th 19, 06:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Posts: 11,873
Default Win7 support:

Robert in CA wrote:
On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 9:24:59 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:

what do you think of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-...Y437NRFJ635PMC

Robert

Those are the Cadillac version of write-once media.
You put your last will and testament on those :-)

This is OS media we're making, and after a couple of
years, becomes less valuable. We wouldn't want to
over-spend, to make Microsoft happy.

$0.50 a unit is a good price.

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-.../dp/B0001LS35M

The Gold ones you were looking at, were a bit more than
$2.00 per unit, in my local currency.

Now, the "decoration" on those DVDs Verbatim is selling
for $0.50 a unit, is pretty hard to take. I hate being
reminded that the movie industry thinks every time
I use a DVD, there's a movie on it. I have a ton of
OS discs here, no movie at all. So far, all my DVDs
have a plain finish on them. To label my media, I put
them in slim jewel boxes, and use a marker on the
jewel box. The marker is easy to remove with isopropyl
alcohol, and so the jewel boxes keep getting re-used.

In some cases, the thing your doing, is CD-sized, and
using Imgburn, you can burn CD-sized projects on DVD
media. So you will burn through that half-cakebox pretty
quickly, relatively speaking.

If you really need CDs (like for a music player in an
old vehicle), then you'd "save" them for those sorts
of occasions. As a result, I go through a lot more
DVDs than CDs now.

Paul


I bookmarked your link but your saying I will go through
these pretty quickly but I hardly ever use CD's or DVD's
on the computer unless were doing something like now. So
should I buy 2 packs of these perhaps?


Thanks,
Robert


One package is probably enough then, if you find
that you don't regularly use them.

The problem I have, is supply, and being able
to find them when I need them. As a consequence,
I'd probably buy a larger cake box, just in case.
As hunting down the "non-Cadillac" version, I
never know what I'm going to find.

For backing up windows 10, you'd probably have to
make at least one Macrium boot media after the
new OS is all setup.

Paul
  #42  
Old June 19th 19, 05:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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Posts: 785
Default Win7 support:

On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 10:38:32 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:
On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 9:24:59 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:

what do you think of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-...Y437NRFJ635PMC

Robert
Those are the Cadillac version of write-once media.
You put your last will and testament on those :-)

This is OS media we're making, and after a couple of
years, becomes less valuable. We wouldn't want to
over-spend, to make Microsoft happy.

$0.50 a unit is a good price.

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-.../dp/B0001LS35M

The Gold ones you were looking at, were a bit more than
$2.00 per unit, in my local currency.

Now, the "decoration" on those DVDs Verbatim is selling
for $0.50 a unit, is pretty hard to take. I hate being
reminded that the movie industry thinks every time
I use a DVD, there's a movie on it. I have a ton of
OS discs here, no movie at all. So far, all my DVDs
have a plain finish on them. To label my media, I put
them in slim jewel boxes, and use a marker on the
jewel box. The marker is easy to remove with isopropyl
alcohol, and so the jewel boxes keep getting re-used.

In some cases, the thing your doing, is CD-sized, and
using Imgburn, you can burn CD-sized projects on DVD
media. So you will burn through that half-cakebox pretty
quickly, relatively speaking.

If you really need CDs (like for a music player in an
old vehicle), then you'd "save" them for those sorts
of occasions. As a result, I go through a lot more
DVDs than CDs now.

Paul


I bookmarked your link but your saying I will go through
these pretty quickly but I hardly ever use CD's or DVD's
on the computer unless were doing something like now. So
should I buy 2 packs of these perhaps?


Thanks,
Robert


One package is probably enough then, if you find
that you don't regularly use them.

The problem I have, is supply, and being able
to find them when I need them. As a consequence,
I'd probably buy a larger cake box, just in case.
As hunting down the "non-Cadillac" version, I
never know what I'm going to find.

For backing up windows 10, you'd probably have to
make at least one Macrium boot media after the
new OS is all setup.

Paul


They offer 50 and 100 disc packs if interested:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=verbatim&...f=nb_sb_noss_1

Robert
  #43  
Old June 28th 19, 04:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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Posts: 785
Default Win7 support:

On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 9:24:59 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:


what do you think of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-...Y437NRFJ635PMC

Robert


Those are the Cadillac version of write-once media.
You put your last will and testament on those :-)

This is OS media we're making, and after a couple of
years, becomes less valuable. We wouldn't want to
over-spend, to make Microsoft happy.

$0.50 a unit is a good price.

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-.../dp/B0001LS35M

The Gold ones you were looking at, were a bit more than
$2.00 per unit, in my local currency.

Now, the "decoration" on those DVDs Verbatim is selling
for $0.50 a unit, is pretty hard to take. I hate being
reminded that the movie industry thinks every time
I use a DVD, there's a movie on it. I have a ton of
OS discs here, no movie at all. So far, all my DVDs
have a plain finish on them. To label my media, I put
them in slim jewel boxes, and use a marker on the
jewel box. The marker is easy to remove with isopropyl
alcohol, and so the jewel boxes keep getting re-used.

In some cases, the thing your doing, is CD-sized, and
using Imgburn, you can burn CD-sized projects on DVD
media. So you will burn through that half-cakebox pretty
quickly, relatively speaking.

If you really need CDs (like for a music player in an
old vehicle), then you'd "save" them for those sorts
of occasions. As a result, I go through a lot more
DVDs than CDs now.

Paul





Just ordered the DVD-R's so we'll have those
ready when finished with the other problem.

Robert
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Old July 4th 19, 06:01 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 10:38:32 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:
On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 9:24:59 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:

what do you think of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-...Y437NRFJ635PMC

Robert
Those are the Cadillac version of write-once media.
You put your last will and testament on those :-)

This is OS media we're making, and after a couple of
years, becomes less valuable. We wouldn't want to
over-spend, to make Microsoft happy.

$0.50 a unit is a good price.

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-.../dp/B0001LS35M

The Gold ones you were looking at, were a bit more than
$2.00 per unit, in my local currency.

Now, the "decoration" on those DVDs Verbatim is selling
for $0.50 a unit, is pretty hard to take. I hate being
reminded that the movie industry thinks every time
I use a DVD, there's a movie on it. I have a ton of
OS discs here, no movie at all. So far, all my DVDs
have a plain finish on them. To label my media, I put
them in slim jewel boxes, and use a marker on the
jewel box. The marker is easy to remove with isopropyl
alcohol, and so the jewel boxes keep getting re-used.

In some cases, the thing your doing, is CD-sized, and
using Imgburn, you can burn CD-sized projects on DVD
media. So you will burn through that half-cakebox pretty
quickly, relatively speaking.

If you really need CDs (like for a music player in an
old vehicle), then you'd "save" them for those sorts
of occasions. As a result, I go through a lot more
DVDs than CDs now.

Paul


I bookmarked your link but your saying I will go through
these pretty quickly but I hardly ever use CD's or DVD's
on the computer unless were doing something like now. So
should I buy 2 packs of these perhaps?


Thanks,
Robert


One package is probably enough then, if you find
that you don't regularly use them.

The problem I have, is supply, and being able
to find them when I need them. As a consequence,
I'd probably buy a larger cake box, just in case.
As hunting down the "non-Cadillac" version, I
never know what I'm going to find.

For backing up windows 10, you'd probably have to
make at least one Macrium boot media after the
new OS is all setup.

Paul




The DVD-R's have arrived and now that we have the
other problem resolved we can go ahead.

I forgot exactly where we were on this so have
to re-read it.

I'll my monthly Mrimg and make a restore point now
that everything is working again.

Robert
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Old July 4th 19, 06:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Robert in CA wrote:

The DVD-R's have arrived and now that we have the
other problem resolved we can go ahead.

I forgot exactly where we were on this so have
to re-read it.

I'll my monthly Mrimg and make a restore point now
that everything is working again.

Robert


Just remember you'll be installing on a *spare*
drive placed in the computer, to protect the *original*
or *good* drive.

If the COA sticker has a 25-character key on it
(five groups of five), you can install on the
spare while the spare is empty. And type in the key
when prompted.

You can clone the original drive to the spare drive,
for cases where the COA sticker doesn't have a license
key on it.

The MediaCreationTool1903 can take care of most of
your needs, and if you're patient, I think it
offers to burn the DVD near the end. You select the
option to "make media for another computer", to be
able to make a DVD.

The download prepared by the MediaCreationTool1903 is

3,967,483,904 bytes

( Win10 64bit mediacreation 1903 7OSes iso file )

The disc would include Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro,
as well as five other versions. Windows 7 Pro can be
promoted to Windows 10 Pro, as to how the choices work.

You are preparing a DVD for this, because Windows 7 lacks
an ISO mounter of its own. On later OSes, you can instead
use a "mount" command to make a virtual DVD drive with the
install materials on it. But Win7 is a bit backward, and
doesn't have that feature.

You don't generally use third-party ISO mounters for that,
because they "confuse" DVD writer programs. I had one once
and had to remove it, because of that behavior.

HTH,
Paul
 




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