Snocrash Posted May 29, 2009 Posted May 29, 2009 I'm trying to create a bootable dvd+dl disc. I currently have a set of two dvds that I use for ghosting computers and I would like to combine them into a single dual layer disc to save on the number of discs that I need to carry around. I've read in some other posts that the files may need to be written in a certain order to allow booting and I'm looking for some guidance on how to do that. Thanks
mmalves Posted May 29, 2009 Posted May 29, 2009 The two DVDs you have, is one of them bootable? How do you use them?
Snocrash Posted May 31, 2009 Author Posted May 31, 2009 The discs are actually generated by a Dell service called imagedirect. The first disc contains a 1.44MB boot image, it has a bin folder which contains some basic dos utilities and the ghost.exe, and an image folder that contains the ghost image which is broken into 650MB segments. The second dvd contains the image folder with the rest of the files. Using Imgburn, I imported the boot sector from the first dvd, then added the bin folder and the image folders from both DVDs, but the resulting DVD did not boot.
mmalves Posted May 31, 2009 Posted May 31, 2009 Did you use the same filesystem(s) that the source disc has?
Snocrash Posted June 1, 2009 Author Posted June 1, 2009 The original source DVDs show as using CDFS. I selected ISO9660 + UDF when I created the Image for the DVD DL as I need to have about 6GB of data on there.
Snocrash Posted June 1, 2009 Author Posted June 1, 2009 I noticed today that Imgburn will let me create the image with an ISO9660 format, so I'm going to try that and see if I have any better results. I won't be able to test it until tomorrow though.
mmalves Posted June 1, 2009 Posted June 1, 2009 With ImgBurn in Read mode, insert the original bootable DVD and then look which filesystem(s) it has. If I recall correctly Windows shows CDFS for all ISO9660, Joliet and UDF filesystems
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