PeterR

Dontasciime: I don't understand your point at all - how does it relate to my original query? Shamus: I don't think that would work as you need a Windows CD to complete the process. What I have is a Toshiba recovery DVD - it's not going to work unless you reckon a) that the DVD would work in the USB drive by the time the Floppies had finished loading that it would work as a Windows CD for the purpose of completing the Windows installation process.

Can I use ImgBurn to copy my wife's laptop Recovery DVD (which I gather is a bootable DVD) to CDs which would also be bootable? That is to span the DVD across 4 CDs (like could be done with spanning a CD across floppies)? The DVD function on the laptop doesn't work - no idea why but we tried everything ages ago - yet the DVD drive works just fine as a CD drive. We have a USB DVD drive for the laptop, but the laptop doesn't have an option to boot from a USB device. We need something bootable in order to install a new hard drive as the old one has failed. I gather one can use ImageX from Microsoft to do this, but I was just wondering whether ImgBurn would do it? Thanks Peter