Disc Image File help please!

[Hanneke]

I have bought new computers and software for our charity...

I tried saving us some money by buying MS Office professional 2010 as a charity and a bought the downloads, saving £30 a licence...

However, the download appears to be something called a Disc Image File and it wants to be brunt to a CD... It is too large for a CD and there must be a way of accessing and installing the programme directly from the DIM file on my hard drive?

Any suggestions? I have found some programmes that would do it, but they al cost money, foregoing the fact that I tried saving us money by buying a download in the first place

Help...

[Alf]

I have bought new computers and software for our charity...

I tried saving us some money by buying MS Office professional 2010 as a charity and a bought the downloads, saving £30 a licence...

However, the download appears to be something called a Disc Image File and it wants to be brunt to a CD... It is too large for a CD and there must be a way of accessing and installing the programme directly from the DIM file on my hard drive?

Any suggestions? I have found some programmes that would do it, but they al cost money, foregoing the fact that I tried saving us money by buying a download in the first place

Help...

Something as large as that will have to be burnt to a DVD Hanneke. If you have Windows 7 then you can use the burner utility on that. Put a blank DVD disk in your drive (providing you have a DVD writer drive?). Right click on the image file and OPEN WITH Disc Image Burner.

[DrPatrickBarry]

A disk image file will have a .iso extension. A DVD iso file is different to a CD .iso file so you cannot just burn a cd .iso to a dvd. If it too big for a Cd it may be a DVD or it may require a 700 mb cd as opposed to the 650. If it is more than this it will be a DVD iso image.

ISO images can be exploded to get at the underlining files, I have done it on Linux many times and it is very easy, not done it on Windoze but it is probably easy as well.

[Hanneke]

Well, it was bigger than 700 mb...

But I have found out how to 'unwrap' it without burning it, with a special programme I downloaded... It all seems to be working now, phew!