Windows Server 2016 ISO Download

Thank you I will contact these other forums.  I am a home user....   just with interest in DB's.  If I had a business support I am sure I could ask the IT department

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Do you mean you downloaded an ISO and suddenly (without doing anything else) a message like this popped up:

That message is from the built in isoburn.exe program that comes with Windows.

Does your system of unspecified make and model have a CD/DVD drive that has burning capability or does it not and if you think it does are you sure that it works properly (have you burned CD/DVDs before)?

Once you have an ISO file if you want to create some bootable media from it you have to use a program to do that.

I have never used the burner that comes with Windows but if I wanted to make some bootable media from an ISO I would do this:

You can't just copy/burn and ISO file to a device and make it bootable - you have to use a program that knows how to create a bootable media like a CD/DVD or USB thumb drive and there are free programs for that.

The free third party program called ImgBurn is popular for creating bootable media (CD/DVD or USB) from the ISO file you are going to download.

The problem with some free third party programs is that during their installation they want to install other things (McAfee, Avira, Avast, etc.) and make adjustments to things like your browser home page and you don't want any of that.  Always pay attention during the installations and choose to Customize if you see that offered, uncheck anything you don't want.  Sometimes they change things around so pay attention...

Download ImgBurn from here:

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

During the installation uncheck this box or anything that looks like it:

Finally here is a tutorial about how to burn the ISO to a CD/DVD:

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/61-how-to-write-an-image-file-to-a-disc-using-imgburn/

When you are done you can uninstall ImgBurn.

If you want to make a bootable USB thumb drive I suggest Rufus for that and you can download it from here:

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Thank you I will contact these other forums.  I am a home user....   just with interest in DB's.  If I had a business support I am sure I could ask the IT department

Hi,

Your question is beyond the scope of these Forums

This Community is mainly for home users and their computer problems, not business systems.

Kindly post your question in the TechNet Server Forums.

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Cheers.