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JosephB 
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Posted on: Jan. 16 2009,19:03 |
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Please excuse my very basic newbie question:
I have downloaded an ISO Image File from Microsoft's MSDN site to my hard drive.
My preference is *not* to burn it to a cd or dvd. I wish to run the setup.exe contained within the ISO Image File as if I was doing an install from a real CD or DVD.
So, which method will install the MSDN sofware install that was downloaded ,as an ISO Image File to my Hard Drive, most reliably :
A) Mount the ISO Image File via the (ISODrive) Virtual Drive function of UltraISO and execute "setup.exe" from the virtual drive 
( ... P.S. Any difference in double clicking the setup.exe on vitrual drive in the real windows explorer pane or via UltraISO bottom Window explorer type pane.
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B) Use UltraISO's Extract function to extract the ISO Image File on the disk to a temporary folder and then proceed to execute the "setup.exe" in the temporary 'root' direcctory of the completly extracted cd/dvd
Do both methods work reliably
... if so, what are the Advantages/disadvantages beween the two methods of installing ISO Image File software install/updates ??
Edited by JosephB on Jan. 16 2009,19:07
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xoben
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Posted on: Jan. 17 2009,01:51 |
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Mounting to an ISODrive and setup directly is the prefered method for your issue, which is much more convenient than extracting to a temp folder first, and the same fast and reliable.
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JosephB
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Posted on: Jan. 17 2009,02:36 |
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xoben,
Thank you for the quick response and answering my question.
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