Today, I ended up using a most roundabout way to extract some files.<\/p>\n
The files were in an ISO disc image on a flash drive. Unfortunately, the Windows 7 laptop I was using had no software on it that could extract files from an ISO and I did not feel like downloading and installing some. What the laptop did<\/em> have available was a copy of XPMode (a Windows XP virtual machine).<\/p>\n My solution was to mount the ISO in the VM, then to share the VM\u2019s CD drive. Then I opened the shared CD in the Windows 7 network location and copied the files.<\/p>\n I ended up creating an\u00a0\u201cintranet\u201d on a single computer to extract files in a\u00a0bizarrely\u00a0circuitous manner. Not surprisingly, the network connections dialog of both the XP and 7 systems indicated up\/downloading a pile of data even though no actual network activity took place.<\/p>\n It was an odd, yet interesting experience, but also a fun challenge in resourcefulness and problem-solving.<\/p>\n Today, I ended up using a most roundabout way to extract some files. The files were in an ISO disc image on a flash drive. Unfortunately, the Windows 7 laptop I was using had no software on it that could extract files from an ISO and I did not feel like downloading and installing some. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,64,68,67,37,65,66],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computers","tag-networking","tag-problem-solving","tag-virtualization","tag-windows","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}