ISO 9660 - Compact Disk (CD) on different Operating System (OS)
May 30th, 2006 — VyomaWhen I was recovering some of my files from a crashed hard disk, I was wondering if a CD written in one OS could be read by another OS. I was recovering the files using Knoppix (a Linux distribution), and then writing it to a CD. If I were to use these files in a Windows XP system, I had to make sure that the CD could be read. I did some research around and found that the Data CD format is indeed compatible across multiple OS because a file system called ISO 9660 is used.
ISO 9660 is a international standard that defines a file system for writing on the CD media so that it can be read by computers powered by Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Unix and Linux variants. ISO 9660 was based on the High Sierra file system format that arranged file information in a dense and sequential format. High Sierra format was then used and the standard ISO 9660 was formulated.
