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Making bootable cd using Nero 7

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by jstaron

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Hi,
After a dozen attempts on two PCs using all the info I could find on the net, I still cannot make a bootable CD using Nero 7 and it's DosBootimage.IMA file or memtest +-1.70.iso, Image burn created.nrg, or Image.nrg files.

I just want to make a bootable CD with memtest86 +-1.7 on it to check memory.
Nero just keeps asking to insert CD before each burn, even though I have inserted multiple new CDs. It's not the PC or software, because the problem is with two PCs. It must be the procedure. I've burnt CDs for years but burning a bootable CD is a mystery.

What tab do I start with?:
Multisession or not tab
ISO tab
Burn tab

Would appreciate a simple step by step procedure. Little things like does Nero express only burn CDs and Nero Burner only DVDs. I can make a bootable floppy using format in XP, but my laptop has no floppy.

Thanks,
Joe
PS Seems like a lot of people are having the same problem and are not getting a clear step by step answer.

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by older mycroft

Whatever 'file manager' you use, navigate to the folder where the .iso file lives.

Now, I know this sounds too simple: just double click on it! NERO will fire up on its own and handle the file in the only way a .iso file can be handled - it'll burn it to disc.

Wait for NERO to launch and follow the prompts for inserting media into the appropriate drive.

By the way - strictly speaking a .iso file, being an image of a disc, can't be 'made' bootable because the image is of a bootable CD already. All you can do is burn it, the disc then becomes bootable itself, by already being a bootable disc.

Good luck.

by sgt_shultz

a dos boot floppy as the 'source' for the boot files. i'll check when i get to work whre my nero 7 is, but it sounds like nero might be prompting you for a bootable disk to get the boot stuff. as i recall you needed bootable floppy, not cd but now i wonder if nero now accepts a bootable cd? like a windows setup cd maybe. i am cornfused also.

by cecilmash2000

Am having the same problem with making a bootable cd of xp.I used nLite(http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html) to integrate some addittional SATA drivers in my cd so i need to burn the end product to a cd but at the same time make sure its bootable.I burnt it normaly but it cant boot a machine.At the end of the nLite process it tell you that you have an ISO file though its a brain boggler stil.

Any ideas?

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