creating a bootable CD from ISO file

[jpotucek]

I have an MSDN subscription. WHen I download Windows 7 and use Nero or IMG Burn to write the ISO file to the CD\DVD, I end up with a bootable DVD.

When I download windows XP or any of the other operating systems and burn the ISO to a CD\DVD, I do NOT get a bootable disk. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I can do differnt?

 

[TonHu]

Was that other ISO supposed to be bootable, to begin with? Original XP CD's are bootable, and the same counts for the Server OS's CD's & DVD's from 2003 and up. Did you get a SP3 update CD, by accident? That only has 1 .exe on it to install the SP, and nothing more.

 

[linney]

If you don't end up with a bootable DVD/CD, what do you end up with, what is on it when you look at the DVD/CD in Explorer?

Assuming there maybe some length of time since you created a Windows 7 DVD and your current creations, have the booting options in the Bios changed and are they still correct?

How to Make A Bootable DVD for Windows Vista...??

http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1098166.htm

How to Make A Bootable DVD for Windows 7

http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1174622.htm

This is from the MSDN site.

See the paragraph "Using ISO Image Files".

Using Subscriber Downloads

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/aa948864.aspx