bootdisc to get files off a corrupted installation

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you do not use

Drag to Disk to burn an ISO image! If roxio (YUK) even finished the burn it
would still not work! You need to use the disk mastering section of EZ CD
Creator to burn an image file to CD.

It's me doing the typing: What I am doing is what I THOUGHT I was told to
do on the download page: Not sure what Disc Mastering is. I open the ISO
using File, Record-CD-From-CD-Image in Easy CD Creator,
Highlight-the-ISO-file (it puts in two files totaling a few kilobytes) then
add all the files it tells you to add after you have done this by dragging
them from windows explorer to the Files section of the burn software? I
must admit to having had this problem even with the simplest and most
foolproof burning software, Sony CD Complete Pro Version 1.4 which only EVER
made coasters when I tried to add both files and folders to a job. Is there
a proper way of doing this in the Roxio application? Is the Platinum
version of Easy CD Creator any different from the bundled one in this
regard? I know they are constantly nagging me to upgrade and I DO have the
platinum version of 5 as well as the bundled one but the bundled one came
with the DVD burner and I was worried that the earlier platinum version was
one not designed for burning DVDs. I agree with you about it being a
catastrophic application (I was one of those who tried to use it with
Windows 2000) and with a company as unreliable as Roxio, you can understand
that the last thing I want to do is to start trying to upgrade it to
something which may have less functionality and then try to manually change
hundreds of registry entries when I have to downgrade it again or uninstall
it to put something else on my drive!!!

And sorry about the waste of bandwidth: The situation arises when you post
to a newsgroup and no one answers. (That is how this thread started, with a
few of those unanswered threads over a few weeks posted one place for a few
days or weeks, then another). I admit it shows I don't know how newsgroups
work but you sorta get the idea that no one knowledgeable was there for the
few weeks when you were looking so wonder if that is the proper newsgroup
for this type of posting in future. After you have done this a few times,
you learn that the only way you are going to get a response is by cross
posting. So you cross-post just to get a response. I thought that the
whole point of cross posting (as opposed to posting multiple times on
different groups) was NOT to waste bandwidth?

 

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Sorry Len, let me correct that: When I try to open File,
record-cd-from-CD-image, it is greyed out:

What I actually use is I use is File, New-CD-Project, Bootable-CD then I
select the ISO file then I use drag and drop to add whatever files are in
the directory the BartPE page tells me to add to that project which I
thought would merely be added to the bootable CD.

 

[Len]

Not sure what you have going on there?? When I open Roxio, then Creator
Classic under file I have Burn Disk from Image as a choice. It then pops up
a window allowing you to track down where you have stored that .iso file on
your system and select it. After that it is a straight forward operation to
burn the cd.

If it is an ISO of a bootable CD then there should be no need to set it up
specifically as a bootable CD. Have not used Bart for a time - thank
goodness no need to. So do not recall exactly how I burned the disk.
However, a good iso should be bootable without issue if it was properly
created from a bootable CD.

Anyway, good luck - about all I can offer,
Len

 

[Ricky]

I made the Bart PE iso and used this program to burn it..
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm I just made the
ISO..right click and choose Copy Image to CD and it boots fine.

 

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Actually it is a bit easier than that: I found that my problem was trying to
use BART to create an ISO for burning. If you let BART do the whole process
itself including the burn, it burns and the disc works. Since then I have
tried making an ISO just to be sure and it DIDN'T burn. In my Roxio there
isn't the option you mention, just the create bootable CD option in which
you are asked to burn from an ISO. Then it doesn't do so. Sometimes it cant
even find its ISO in OPEN!!

Anyway BART seems to be a powerful and useful program which did exactly what
I wanted, It might even repair the XP installation for me, though I doubt it
so I am going to format and reinstall having taken all necessary files off
onto the D drive

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

In Roxio I think it is called "Image to Disk" in Classic.

 

[Enkidu]

Actually it is a bit easier than that: I found that my problem was trying to
use BART to create an ISO for burning. If you let BART do the whole process
itself including the burn, it burns and the disc works. Since then I have
tried making an ISO just to be sure and it DIDN'T burn. In my Roxio there
isn't the option you mention, just the create bootable CD option in which
you are asked to burn from an ISO. Then it doesn't do so. Sometimes it cant
even find its ISO in OPEN!!

Anyway BART seems to be a powerful and useful program which did exactly what
I wanted, It might even repair the XP installation for me, though I doubt it
so I am going to format and reinstall having taken all necessary files off
onto the D drive

I'm glad you got there in the end! I use Nero so, while the
conversation was interesting, I couldn't help.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

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Ah yes, but as I mentioned, with a company as unreliable as Roxio, I didnt
dare to change from Basic which burns DVDs to Platinum in version 5: I
don't know what unsupported problems it might create which I would then be
forced to spend months trying to rectify. They wont tell me if it does
actually represent any sort of upgrade (except for their marketing purposes)
so I am equally forced to rely on the adage "if it aint broke, dont fix it".

 

[David Sherman]

I prefer this site for Bootable CD:

http://ubcd4win.com/

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I second David about ubcd4win.