HELP! cannot boot from vista dvd!!!

[Neerav Kothari]

hello. i just burnt a dvd of windows vista. the contents of the original
vista dvd were stored in a folder and i burnt all those contents directly to
the dvd, it has the boot folder. now in xp when i insert the dvd the vista
installition thing comes up but i cannot boot into this dvd. i have already
set dvd as the first boot device in the bios.

note.. while burning the dvd nero said one of the files is more than 2 gbs
in size so i cannot burn a iso an that i'll have to choose the format as UDF
and i just did that. could this be the problem?

 

[philo]

hello. i just burnt a dvd of windows vista. the contents of the original
vista dvd were stored in a folder and i burnt all those contents directly to
the dvd, it has the boot folder. now in xp when i insert the dvd the vista
installition thing comes up but i cannot boot into this dvd. i have already
set dvd as the first boot device in the bios.

note.. while burning the dvd nero said one of the files is more than 2 gbs
in size so i cannot burn a iso an that i'll have to choose the format as UDF
and i just did that. could this be the problem?

You need to use the "copy DVD" option.
If you merely copy over the files, you will be missing to boot sector

 

[Neerav]

You need to use the "copy DVD" option.
If you merely copy over the files, you will be missing to boot sector

i was able to install vista from the dvd after booting in from xp. then i
got rid of window.old folder. there is a clean install option in explorer
mode too. now can u tell me how do i make a bootable dvd out of the current
one? i'm not using nero this time as vista has an inbuilt dvd burner if i'm
correct.

Neerav

 

[philo]

i was able to install vista from the dvd after booting in from xp. then i
got rid of window.old folder. there is a clean install option in explorer
mode too. now can u tell me how do i make a bootable dvd out of the current
one? i'm not using nero this time as vista has an inbuilt dvd burner if i'm
correct.

Neerav

You will need to use Nero or some other similar burning program.
AFAIK the built-in burner with Vista cannot copy the boot sector

Someone else may be able to shed more light on the Vista burning
procedure...
but if you have Nero...it's pretty easy to just clone your original DVD

 

[Neerav]

alright. i will install nero. but here is the question... i asked my pc
vendor to copy vista dvd to a folder. then i copied the contents of the
folder to a dvd using nero. the dvd was not bootable but there was a boot
folder. now using nero if i 'copy dvd' will the new dvd be bootable?