Burning Boot Disk in Nero 6.x

Hi guys. Symantec/Norton told me to download a (very large) .iso file, save it to my Desktop, and then burn it as a boot disk on DVD. (This file comes as part of a Symantec/Norton product called Norton Save and Restore, successor to Norton Ghost.) Understand that the disk is to be used to boot my computer in emergencies or other circumstances.

I have on my computer Nero Express 6.6.0.18 OEM (accessible via Start/All Programs/Nero). Separately on my Desktop I have the Nero StartSmart shortcut.

Please, how do I use Nero to convert that .iso file (called specifically NortonSaveAndRestore 110AllWinEnglish.iso) to an actual boot disk? Someone has emailed me: 'It sounds like you'd want to choose "Make Data Disk" and then hopefully there will be some place to specify an .iso file to burn. You don't want to just drag the .iso file into the list of files to burn onto the disk because that means when you put the DVD in your drive and browse to it in Explorer you'll see one file called "filename.iso" (or whatever its actual name is). ...'

The disk I burn must be capable of actually booting the computer.

Please help!

Thanks - Ken18

 

Start Nero Burning ROM. Cancel out of the setup window and look under Recorder-Burn Image. Follow that and you should end up with a bootable CD, or DVD depending on how large the .iso file is.

 

Thanks Saltgrass. Bear with me. You wrote: ' Start Nero Burning ROM.'

I was afraid of this. Have I got some unique version of Nero that corresponds to nobody else's? Please, how DO I start Nero Burning ROM? Nothing I click on shows me such an entity.

Maybe I haven't loaded it onto my computer. I have a note to myself on my computer, thus: 'Nero Digital ... is not currently installed.' I only have Nero OEM (which includes Nero Express), Nero Toolkit, Nero StartSmart, etc.

You also wrote: 'Cancel out of the setup window and look under Recorder-Burn Image.'

Hopefully that will make sense once I locate Nero Burning ROM!

And you conclude: 'Follow that and you should end up with a bootable CD, or DVD depending on how large the .iso file is.'

It's definitely going to be a DVD.

Thanks again - Ken41

 

You can use the Smart Start to do a Data DVD, but cancel out of the setup window and look for recorder-burn image. I don't know about your version, so it may not have the capability.

If you can't start it that way, go to programs-nero-data-nero burning ROM or something like it. This is the basic program to burn DVDs or CDs.

If you get it started and you can't find the referenced option, it may not be present in your version.

What program do you show running if you select Data DVD in Smart Start?

 

I just can't get Nero to work for me, I'm sorry, guys.

Looked like it would work when I accessed Start/All Programs/Nero/Nero OEM/Nero Express. The window that opened asked 'Which recorder would you like to use?' and it nominated my CD-DVD drive (T. Other options were 'Image Recorder (DVD or CD). I went along with the T: drive (specifying CD-R/RW rather than DVD).

Below that was the question 'What would you like to burn?' and gave the choices: Data, Music, Pictures, Copy Entire Disc, Disc Image or Saved Project. I selected Data and was given two further choices: Data Disc or Bootable Data Disc. Naturally I chose the latter.

The next window, headed 'Nero Express', stated 'Add data to your disc. Then click on "Next" to add the boot image from a bootable floppy disc.' Well, I clicked on 'Add' and selected the relevant .iso file. Then I clicked on 'Next'. A message said: 'Select Boot Image. Select a floppy drive which contains a bootable floppy disc or Nero's bootable floppy image'. This hardly made any sense to me (for one thing, my computer doesn't have a floppy drive), but I next read: 'The Nero installation contains an image of bootable floppy disc, which will be used to make your disc bootable.' That (sort of) SOUNDED right to me! Of two further choices ('Read boot disc in drive', 'Use standard boot image'), I chose the latter.

Then I clicked on 'Next', gave my (CD-R/RW) disc a name, and chose a burning speed, then clicked on 'Burn'.

Well, the result was not a proper boot disc to start my computer in the event of an emergency when Windows won't otherwise start. I did try to boot from it, and the first line that appeared said something like, 'Starting Caldera DR-DOS'.

A person from Norton/Symantec on the phone told me, 'That's definitely not right.'

Please, guys, what should I have done?

Thanks - Ken41

 

You should have chosen Disk Image.

 

That has worked, Saltgrass! Thank you very much. That's the first time I've used Nero 6.x to burn a disk successfully, other than when another program (e.g., DVD Shrink) has done it for me. There's hope yet!

- Ken41