Hi folks - I have tried to find an answer to this in the main help pages but can't make sense of it in the context of my problem. I have used ImgBurn to create an ISO image from a set of files and folders; that is, I have built a set of files and made an iso image of them.
However, it would not boot. I discovered it was because I had not set it to boot under 'Advanced' - 'Make Image Bootable'. However, when I try to 'Extract Boot Image', that's where I come unstuck. I want to make an original CD of my files and make it bootable, not to copy the bootable bit from another CD. The list of files on the CD does have an .IMA file in it, but it complains about it not being in the right place, in that if I try to put it on my hard drive, it complains that it can't put the image on the disc I'm writing to. If I put it in a separate partition on my hard drive, it tells me that the file size will be enormous - the size of the partition, in fact!
So to recap, I have a list of files on my hard drive, one of which is an .ima file of about 1.4Mb, and I want to create an iso image that, when it's burned to a CD, will be bootable. The only thing I can think of is to burn all the files to CD [not bootable] and then extract the whole lot to an image file on my hard drive, which kind of misses the point in that it uses a blank CD and I wanted to create the image on my hard drive. So, how should I *really* go about it, please?
Thanks in advance
Tony
PS ImgBurn log:
I 11:10:35 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started!
I 11:10:35 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)
I 11:10:35 Total Physical Memory: 1,964,136 KB - Available: 1,314,464 KB
I 11:10:35 Initialising SPTI...
I 11:10:35 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 11:10:36 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM!
I 11:18:28 Project Loaded Successfully!
I 11:18:28 File Name: C:\Main Folder\~~DBAN\dbandualmodebootable.ibb
I 11:19:00 Operation Started!
I 11:19:00 Source Drive: C:\
I 11:19:00 Boot Image File: C:\Main Folder\~~DBAN\DBAN_1_0_7_I386.IMA
I 11:19:00 Creating Boot Image...
E 11:19:04 Operation Failed!