help making bootable system recovery disk

[pjoseph]

on another laptop I was trying to reformat it, and I have the system recovery disks there are 2 of them. I did the first disk and when i put the second one it says bad disk for some reason.

 

I can open it and copy all the files on another laptop, what I want to try is copy disk 2 onto my other laptop and burn it onto another cd and see if that will work.

 

I have tried 2 different ways with no luck, I also read the guide for vista/windows 7 but still stuck.

 

Can someone please give me clear instructions on the process to accomplish this.

 

recovery disks are for Vista.

 

Thanks

[LIGHTNING UK!]

We have no idea what you're working with file wise, how are we supposed to help?!

 

If you have 2 discs that have been provided to you and 1 won't read properly in the laptop, make a straight copy of it in the other laptop and try again.

[pjoseph]

We have no idea what you're working with file wise, how are we supposed to help?!

 

If you have 2 discs that have been provided to you and 1 won't read properly in the laptop, make a straight copy of it in the other laptop and try again.

 

 

Making a strait copy does not work because it has to be a bootable disk, and I believe that is what I am having trouble with.

Please see attached I took screen shots of the files of disk 2. Please let me know what other information you need, this is the first time trying something like this so I apologize on the lack of info

 

thanks again .

disk 2.pdf

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Does disc 1 not ask you to insert disc 2 once it has booted and done the first bit of the recovery? You wouldn't normally need both discs to be bootable.

 

You can't tell if a disc is bootable by looking at the files it contains in Explorer. Load it in ImgBurn's 'Read' mode (Create image file from disc) and see if it lists 'Bootable' in the file system info within the 'Source' box.