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Free Command Line ISO Burning Tools from Microsoft in Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

I know there are a lot of good GUI tools to burn ISO files to a CD or DVD. However, I guess I'm "old school" and have been using the two free command line tools Microsoft provides in their...

Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

...for several years now.

If you install the toolkit, you'll find two command line tools named CDBURN.EXE and DVDBURN.EXE. They do exactly what you think they should do: Take an ISO file and burn and unpack it to a writeable CD or DVD.

I'm downloading the latest copy of Knoppix to help diagnose a bluescreen-on-boot PC as I type this and will use CDBURN to burn the downloaded ISO file to create a bootable Knoppix CD.