There exists out-of-band data on some discs which is used for e.g.
copy protection. ISO files are just a copy of the on-disc data stream,
and don't encode that information.

There are other reasons, but that is the main market such software
targets, to my knowledge.

- Rich

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Roger Sears <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seeing the recent post about making and then using an iso. image to create
> an exact copy of a CD or DVD, and having screwed up that process when I
> tried it using ImgBurn, I've got to ask, why doesn't just making a
> disc-to-disc copy accomplish the same thing?
>
> I finally resorted to the D-T-D copy after I (must of) screwed up the .iso
> burn step - all I got on the new DVD was a copy of the .iso file I had
> initially created.
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