Burning an ISO and making it Bootable?

[Joe 90]

Right, i need some kinda idiots guide - a fool proof guide to how you take an ISO, and then come out the other end with a bootable disk.

I've had so many disks become coasters because the images i've written simply wont pick up during boot - i'd just love to see 'press any key to boot cd-rom' whilst this thing boots...

i've got so many apps to burn and play with images; nero, iso buster, magic iso, power iso...etc

any tips?

also if my MBR is buggered (it tries to load a vista parition by default that is now broken and partitioned into nothingness) whats the easy way to fix it?

[Mark]

Get a utility that can burn ISO images (this does not mean adding the file to a CD/DVD project and burning that - you'll then just have an ISO file on your CD/DVD). Burn the ISO image. Done.

The information to make a CD/DVD bootable is stored in the ISO file. If that information isn't there, then there's probably a good reason.

Both Nero and Roxio software can do this job, and there are several others available too.

[MarcLister]

Have you tried ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download)?

You just give it the ISO and ImgBurn will burn the ISO for you and make it bootable.

As for MBR. Don't know much about Vista but have you tried fixmbr (http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=fixmbr&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)?

[Joe 90]

i've done that... tools > burn image

i'll try again in a bit :/

[Mark]

And yeah, booting the XP recovery console and running fixmbr should help with the booting problem. Assuming it's not the boot.ini file that's causing the problem of course.

[Joe 90]

ah yes forgot about boot.ini

i'll take a look at that :)

thanks

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Grrr
imgburn failed with an error


E 21:37:37 Failed to Read Sector 1162470 - No Seek Complete
E 21:37:37 Sector 1162470 maps to File: sources\install.wim
E 21:37:37 Failed to Verify Sectors!


that aint good :(