First of all, after looking at the various sections to post on, I couldn't think of anywhere else to put this. but if it is in the wrong place then i'm sorry. ok, now to my problem, its a bit long winded so you will have to bare with me! I acquired an advent t9107 which has a built in recovery partition but no recovery disc. The partition stuffed up for want of a better term, which meant I couldn't press the designated key on bootup to activate the recovery process, and there wasn't a recovery dvd supplied to do it from. I ran the recovery media creator to make one from as all the files were still on the partition. It made it fine and verified it or so I thought: that was it job done. Wrong! The media creator didn't copy the correct files across to the dvd, but they are on the partition. I rang the support line, and they sent me an official recovery dvd... But geuss what? The same files are missing on that as well! Now I thought of a way round it. I used ultra dvd to make an iso of the dvd they sent me, and updated the iso with the directory thats missing. All well and good i hear you say? wrong again! When I burn it to dvd and try and boot from it, nothing happens. something is happening to the iso when I am updating it with the missing directory that makes it non-bootable. And I don't don't know how to overcome this. I have tried this several times but each time i get the same outcome. I seriously need some help on this please as the idiots on the support line haven't got a clue what to do. All I need to be able to do is update the iso, but still leave it bootable. Any thoughts?
To create a bootable CD/DVD you need to extract the boot files from the original DVD. Here are some links on how to proceed: http://www.codeproject.com/tools/BootExtract.asp http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1703&page=10 for more, just google: extract boot files
