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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Geary Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 3:16 PM To: Phil Smith III Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] .ISOs of recovery CDs? 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
