I’ve been doing a lot of installing and re-imaging lately 🙁 and I’ve had to work with ISO files quite a bit. I haven’t found any Windows freeware that writes ISO files to CDs that actually work. However, I did discover that WinRAR has built-in support for extracting ISO files onto your hard drive.
It won’t, however, help you burn an ISO to a CDR, but hopefully with this info you might not have to!
(By the way, Mac OSX has native support for burning ISOs to CDs built into the operating system.)
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http://www.isobuster.com/
Free (unless you need to unlock some advanced features) and burns ISOs to disc! And yes, 7-zip (another free archive utility, http://www.7-zip.org ) or Winrar can open/extract ISO files as well.
Doh! My mistake! ISO Buster will -open- ISO files, but it’s *IMGBURN* that will burn them:
http://www.imgburn.com/
Burns ISO, IMG, BIN/CUE, NRG, MDS, and a bunch more. Oops!
If you need just an ISO burning tool that’s free try BurnCDCC under the Free SW Download at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html
Hope it helps.