Bootable CDs with Nero WTF

[Rent]

How the hell do you get Nero to burn a bootable copy of Win2k? I cannot get it to burn a bootable CD for the life of me.

 

[IamDavid]

What does it do?

Have you enabled boot from cd in your bios?

 

[Rent]

I have MSDN copies of Win2k Pro, Serv, and Adv Serv. here at work.

Yes, CDBoot is enabled in the bios.

Basically Nero burns the cd from what I have on the harddrive and when I put the finished CD in a new machine to build it scans the CD rom but does not boot from it

 

[IamDavid]

Are the originals bootable? I had a Win2K version that wasn't. When I did use Nero to copy a version that could I had no problems. I used Nero 5.0

 

[Rent]

The Win2k copies I put on the harddrive were bootable.

I am beginning to think that since I didn't make images, just copied the files, that they lost their ability to boot somehow.

 

[grygrx]

Um... yeah, that would be your problem.

 

[mindslash]

Copying to the Harddrive doesn't always work. It's always better to create a disk image or create a duplicate from CD-ROM to CD-RW. I know there's at least a couple of programs that allow that. I haven't used Nero -- so I cannot tell you what the deal there is.

Good luck

 

[Nerd]

You can use CDR-Win for backups like this. Just make a .bin, .cue, and burn it, and it'll auto enable the bootable cd.

 

[Mytv]

Click over to google.com and search for win2k bootable cd or http://www.bink.nu/Bootcd/default.htm

The tutorial even shows a good tip to get rid of an annoying feature every M$ product has. Gotta read it to find out.

 

[CAMS]

Nero/File/New/CopyCD done.

 

[bonkers325]

<< I have MSDN copies of Win2k Pro, Serv, and Adv Serv. here at work.

Yes, CDBoot is enabled in the bios.

Basically Nero burns the cd from what I have on the harddrive and when I put the finished CD in a new machine to build it scans the CD rom but does not boot from it >>



ahh so u burned from harddrive
not a cd image ah
so u are not burning the bootable part of the cd dood

make a nero image and burn it
then it will all work