Creating a bootable ISO / bootable CD
Hello
To create a bootable ISO you need to have a boot sector file, for example "El Torito".
Sharing with you how I 'vecreated a bootable ISO / bootable CD
You need to use TWO - 3rd party tools.
1st tool - to create the boot sector file from a existent physical bootable CD.
(You may use the .bin file I've created and it's available in attachment).
There are lots tools on the Internet (3rd party tools) that allows the extraction of the boot sector from an existent physical bootable CD.
You can create that Sector File using for example BBIE.
There are many other tools that create the boot sector in many different formats.
I've extracted to a .bin file format.2nd tool - You need to use another tool to create the ISO.
The tool must be able to add a boot sector file into the ISO.
During the ISO creation you have to specify the option to add the boot sector file.
There are lots of tools that do that.
The tool I used was the (cdimage). This tools requires the boot file in the .bin format.c:\CDIMAGE\cdimage.exe -bF:\BootSectorFile\BootSectorElTorito.bin WinXPSp3Files XPSP3iso.iso
You may use Virtual PC 2007 attach the media to this ISO and check if the ISO is really bootable. (It should be!)
Then you can use this ISO to burn a CD. The CD is going to be bootable.
I hope this helps.
Best regards,