1. Ripping a CD I just bought. Yes, I still buy CDs. So shoot me now.

2. Burning a bluray for backup. (I do backups on different media types just for insurance, and I like that blurays are write-once and incompetence and ransomware cannot fk with them.)

> Yes, I still buy CDs. So shoot me now.

No need. You still buy CDs, you're old enough that we can wait.

;-)

(I still buy them, too.)

But how do you store it as an iso without making the iso in the first place?

1. the high seas

2. Failing that, just archive your existing discs and ditch the drive for good. It's the year 2020, and most (all?) software are distributed digitally, so you shouldn't need to get out your drive in the future.

I did archive all my CDs to HDD (gotta love 10Tb drives!! why buy anything less?), but I keep the CDs as backup in case (cough) the machine catches fire and burns up my hard drives (cough).

I just built a new Windows gaming machine. Windows came on a DVD. I had to make a quick trip to Walmart to get a USB DVD drive. :-)

Did you have access to another computer? You could have probably saved a few bucks by making a USB instead.

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