fender1212 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Alright, so here's my issue: I've now wasted roughly 6 dvd's. I've tried nero, alchohol, and roxio. not to mention gnomebaker on linux, no matter what i use it always ends up taking near an hour, and when it's done writing it's 4.4 gigs or so all the disc has on there is a few hundred kilobytes. I've tried practically every version of winrar i could find, all of them seem to show that the uphuck iso (i also have another iso for x86 osx, both of them have the same problem) only really contains a few hundred kilobytes extracted, while it's full size is 4.4 gigs (roughly). ubuntu archive manager also showed this same thing. What am i doing wrong? a 4.4 gig iso can't possibly only contain a hundred or so kilobytes of data, and i know because it's obviously not booting off the disk (well it does boot, but, well, i won't even go into it, just know that i have an impartial burn). any help would be GREATLY appreciated. THANK YOU! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus™ uk Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 whatever ISO you got, open nero, then open the iso, then make sure ur dvd is in and choose the burn speed and click burn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-433952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fender1212 Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 ok, If you read my message you would realize I'VE ALREADY TRIED BURNING THE ISO. i know how to burn an iso, i've done it successfully many times, HOWEVER this time IT DOES NOT WORK AS EASILY AS THAT. sorry, but im a bit frustrated with the simplicity of your reply Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-433995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 If you're sure you have burned it correctly and have tried to burn it on another machine with the same results, which would seem like the next logical step, the only other possibility appears to be that you have a corrupted image. If this was d/l'd via a torrent site, it's not uncommon. Torrents often create a dummy image on your hard drive that shows the full size, even though it is not fully d/l'd yet. If there is any kind of break in the transmission, this can corrupt the file and render it useless. What version of uphuck is this anyway? Most of his newer versions are 1.36gb in size. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-433996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fender1212 Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 1.3, but i thought torrents were designed so you could interupt the download (i.e. turn off your computer) and come back to it because it's broken up into many pieces? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-433999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Designed that way, but no download process is 'glitchless'. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-434003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Well, Mac ISOs are a bit different. Because you have two file systems on them. WinRAR are not able to see the HFS part, and so are most other Win apps. I think Ultra ISO are able to see the HFS so you might check there for contents. If the disc is already burned you have to check with some other software able to read HFS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-434029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arhopkins3 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Torrents SHOULD download 100% intact. Sometimes they are not, and require a manual hash check to confirm they are not and for the torrent client to re-download the pieces it needs to fix. Afaik that's nothing to do with pre-allocating the files on the HD... that would be another issue. If you download an ISO file, you should run a hash-check on it before burning. A hash is a long number that is generated when a file is made. When the original ISO was made, most "releasers" will distribute the hash checksum too. With that number, and a hash checksum program, you can verify whether the ISO you have is IDENTICAL to the ISO file created for you. If it isnt, then you need to re-download (or get uTorrent etc to re-hash and re-download what's needed). If the hash shows a perfect ISO and you cannot burn it correctly, thats a whole other kettle of fish. My only advise then is to burn at 1x speed onto recordable discs, not rewritable and for those discs to be branded (not generic cheap ones) and brand new... which you probably already do..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-434041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fender1212 Posted August 25, 2007 Author Share Posted August 25, 2007 alright, got the newest uphuck, ran checksum on the md5 and it matches perfectly. i open it up, still shows less in it than the total size (again only a few hundred kilobytes). i tried with Ultra ISO program suggested, but it shows the same thing winrar does, so i did some searching and tried magiciso. ok, so magiciso actually shows the full iso. ok so i figured great. go ahead and burn with magiciso right? nope, didn't work, burned it short. somehow the burner attached to the program doesn't work with the extractor. sooooo, i tried extracting the iso using magiciso. nope again, failed to create one of the directories on the iso that was LOCKED. pleeeeease help, lol, im getting desperate, i've been at this for a week straight Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-434942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codo Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 u didn´t wrote, if this dvd´s are booting or not. Like written below, your windows cannot see the hfs partition on the dvd, so u can just see this 8 files on the visible part of the disk. i guess...i have here arond 12, 13 bootable macos DVD´s..all created the same way...took a burn-app like nero,winoncd,clonecd...selected the dl´ed iso, select the speed and burned. why are u fingering with winrar inside the iso? there is just 1 thing i can imagine...ur currentfilesystem is fat32 and not able to handle files more than 4gb and corrupt something. sers, codo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-438364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkart Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 MagicISO can handle HFS iso file. try using magiciso to burn HFS ISO file to cd. http://www.magiciso.com/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61151-unpacking-iso/#findComment-439360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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