How can I burn an ISO image to disk using free programs?

Despite the widespread adoption of flash drives and cloud technologies, the usual optical disks are still too early to bury. Yes, their prevalence has significantly decreased, but even now, on the Internet, you can find many programs and films, "packed" in the images of standard optical media.

Since the ISO image is written to disk? There is nothing complicated in this, moreover, you do not even have to use paid programs, as today there are full free and full-featured analogues.

First, consider the Small CD-Writer application. This program is very "ancient," but for beginners it's just perfect. Unfortunately, the author no longer releases new versions.

It does not require installation, it supports almost all the features typical for expensive and professional competitors. How can I burn an ISO image to disk with it?

To do this, start the application, and insert a blank disc into the drive. You can also use rewritable discs: good, the program allows them to be erased. We are looking for the menu item "Disk", we click on the line "Record ISO image". Specify to the application where the file you need is located.

After that, you need to click on the "Burn" button, set the required burning speed, and then click on "Burn" again.

Actually, after this you only need to wait until the drive "spits out" the recorded disc.

Our next "experimental" will be a small application CDBurnerXP. The program is also completely free. Unlike the previous one, it is supported by its developers, can write to Blu-ray discs, has a Russian-language interface.

But how to burn an ISO image to disk with it? Nothing is easier!

As in the previous case, insert a blank disc (or rewritable) into the drive, start the program. In its main window, you need to select the "Burn disk image" item, in the dialog box that opens, specify which disk the image you want is located by clicking on the button with the ellipsis.

Select the required recording method, speed, put a check mark in the field "finalize the disc" (preferably), then click on the "Record" button.

But how to burn an ISO image to disk using another program? And again there are no problems! There is a wonderful application Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE. As the name implies, it is completely free. There is a paid version, but for our purposes, this one is enough.

In the same way as in the past cases, we insert a clean disc into the drive, start "Shampoo". In the main window, select "Create / burn disk image", in the drop-down list go to "Write".

A dialog box opens where you need to point to your file by clicking on the "Browse" button, and then click on the "Next" button. As usual, you need to select the speed, the required drive and set other settings in the desired position. After that, you can burn the ISO image to disk by clicking on the corresponding button.

Regardless of the program used, we advise you not to overdo it with speed. The higher it is, the more likely it is that errors occur both in the recording itself and in subsequent reading. This is especially true when it comes to household record players and tape recorders.

As you can see, writing an ISO image to disk does not represent anything difficult, even for a beginner.