Yes, if the original CD or DVD was bootable, and you make a .iso from it and then burn that to new media, that will be bootable too. The CD/DVD should be bit-for-bit identical to the original, including boot records and everything. I do this all the time.
-Mike On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > Windows 7 on my mom's Edge has crapped out again, this time such that the > recovery partition didn't work. I think I know why the latter happened: we > tried a Windows recovery-without-data-loss from the recovery console, which > failed partway through, then tried the factory restore *without* rebooting. > That failed with "a file is in use", and after that, it wouldn't go into > the recovery console at all. So I called IBM and have a set of recovery > discs in-hand. > > > > Alas, she's still 500 miles away. A friend there is happy to feed it the > discs; I'd rather not overnight them across the border, since that could > take years and cost millions of lives, so my question is: > > > > If I send him .ISOs of the CDs and he burns copies, will those burned > copies work? Or not, because they won't be bootable? I don't know enough > about .ISOs to know whether it includes the boot records. > > > > Anyone? > > > > Thanks, > > > > .phsiii > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
