Data Recovery Using Linux
How to Burn Bootable CD and restore a Hard Drive without recovery Cd?
Ok I got a Windows XP install ISO File from a Torrent. It is a free student edition used to teach and its legal. It said to burn it to a cd using Nero. I got a Nero Demo and burned a CD with it. It says when you boot it up in the drive it should start the installation process, but nothing happens. I wanna know if there is some thing that I am doing wrong about burning it. I burn it like a Data CD that could be the problem. Same with the Linux CD I burned it only worked with the CDs I ordered. I also wanna know if there is a way to completly format a Hard Drive without Windows running or a system restore disk. If anyone helps thank you.
You have to burn the ISO as an ISO –if you burn it as a data CD, then all the burner does is copy the ISO file to the CD. An ISO file is a disk image, so the entire ISO has to be burned to the CD as if you were copying an entire CD to the… to the CD… Look around in Nero’s settings… or you could download http://www.deepburner.com/ <-Deep Burner, which asks you when you open the app if you want to burn an ISO. Deep Burner is freeware.
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