[Baffled]

Mystery solved.  The original Windows DVD has a hairline crack at the hub.  Sometimes it will boot and sometimes it won't.  All the copies I made are bad due to this.  Guess I need to see if I can get a replacement or an ISO  file.

 

Thanks!

[Baffled]

I cannot seem to create a bootable DVD. 

 

I used ImgBurn to create an ISO file from a Win 7 Pro X64 OEM disk.   Then as a test, I tried to burn it back to a new DVD.  I used a boot image file created from this machine, which is the exact same version of Win 7.  I also tried creating a boot image file from the original Microsoft DVD.

 

Although examination shows all the same files, the copies will not boot.

 

I'm doing this so that I can eventually patch the installation files with a Microsoft Hotfix and some Intel USB drivers.

 

I'm probably missing something obvious, but I can seem to pin this down.

 

Thanks!

 

 

ImgBurn.log