Quote Originally Posted by Iane
and burning it as an image makes it bootable? fun stuff. thought that woulda had to been an option somewhere.
Think of it this way: If you have two drives and you copy a disk, you get an exact copy of the first disk. If the first disk was not bootable, then the copy will not be. If the first disk was bootable, then a properly made copy will be. If you only have one drive, you can still make a copy, you just write the original to a temporary fle and then stick in a blank disc and write to it. You still make botable discs this way, and you sure don't need a windows boot floppy to do it (in fact, using one somehow is going to insure failure). The ISO file is just a very standard form of that temporary file that you make when you copy a CD. Any burning software that understands an ISO format can make a good copy of the original disk if you use the proper options in your burning software. Of course, if you just drag and drop the ISO into the file area you'll likely just put a copy of the ISO file onto the CD as one big file. That's not the burning software's fault, maybe you wanted to make a backup copy of the ISO, but it's different than making a bootable copy of the ISO by burning it as an image. No bootable options are involved in making a bootable copy from an ISO, no extra boot disks are needed or wanted.