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burning iso to boot and install
2009-01-27, 4:49 PM #1
i'm f'ing pissed. i want to burn the windows 7 iso to a dvd and install it.
using some BS roxio thing that came with my comp, i burned it as data. no boot.
using the same program i chose 'make bootable' (it only asked me to choose .img files but i added the .iso file). no boot. as a matter of fact the comp says 'missing operating system' when booting from the optical drive.

i've downloaded iso buster but there is no obvious button / text / menu / right click or anything that says "burn". i'm not wasting another dvd just to test this thing.

how the hell do i just burn a bootable dvd to install windows 7? and i want to do it for free.

please and thanks.
2009-01-27, 4:52 PM #2
Download ImgBurn. Give it the ISO. Click burn. Done.
2009-01-27, 4:53 PM #3
I would try this: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
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2009-01-27, 4:53 PM #4
I use Ashampoo..free is good.. :)
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2009-01-27, 5:22 PM #5
ISO images include all content that can go on a CD/DVD including a boot sector. Most burning software supports ISO and if so it would be able to make the disc bootable... AFAIK it's stupid simple, the ISO is literally a raw dump of the CD/DVD so all that needs to be done is write everything back byte for byte, with no need to make special efforts for a boot sector or anything.

I see a few possibilities:

1) You're doing it wrong... the fact you said you burned it "as data" means this is likely (you should burn it as an image). This is easy to check. If you browse the DVD and see only an ISO file, you definitely did it wrong. If you see the disc contents including the usual autorun.inf, and the drive has a label and icon in windows, you probably did it right and it is indeed bootable.

Either way tell us what you see when you browse the disc (I'm curious).

2) Your BIOS is set to not allow booting from a CD/DVD. Make sure the boot order has your DVD drive bootable before the hard drive, or else it is never checked unless the hard drive cannot boot.

My free burning software of choice is DeepBurner, though it lacks a verify tool, I used Cygwin's dd piped to sha1sum to verify the hash against the ISO's hash. cdrtools is supposedly good too but I haven't tried it.

Oh yeah I forgot.

3) The downloaded image is bad, use an SHA-1 hashing tool and check against the hashes Microsoft has posted. Somewhere. I dunno, Google for it.

2009-01-27, 5:28 PM #6
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
Download ImgBurn. Give it the ISO. Click burn. Done.


imgburn is awesome
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2009-01-27, 5:32 PM #7
It looks awesome. It even has verify. I may download it.

2009-01-27, 5:54 PM #8
I just use PowerISO to mount/extract or straight burn
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2009-01-27, 6:09 PM #9
I third ImgBurn. It rocks.
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2009-01-27, 6:13 PM #10
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
Download ImgBurn. Give it the ISO. Click burn. Done.

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2009-01-27, 6:21 PM #11
Burn it to a disc? HA!
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2009-01-27, 6:43 PM #12
thanks guys.
2009-01-29, 9:01 AM #13
I use Alcohol 120% and have no troubles. Works excellent.
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2009-01-29, 9:03 AM #14
Imgburn f'berdlies
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2009-01-29, 9:16 AM #15
Heh.. I was about to make this post...thanks!
I screwed up two iso burns.
2009-01-29, 12:12 PM #16
ImgBurn does look cool. I normally use the free version of DeepBurner.
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