How to make the CD bootable

[ADQUSIT]

Hi. I need to make my CD or DVD bootable. Is there anyone who has used some software to make a CD bootable, because there are lots of software available in GooGle, but don't know whether they are working properly or not. Please guide me for this. Thanks.

[Steve R Jones]

Download UBCD

If you have arrived here from an external link, Ultimate Boot CD allows you to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives and consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. An experimental feature also allows you to run UBCD from your USB memory stick on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices. Read more about UBCD and the full list of freeware diagnostic tools included here.
http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/download.html

[joross]

I used daemon tools to make a CD or DVD bootable. There are lots of tutorials you can find online to make a bootable cd or dvd.

[Nightwalker83]

Isn't it just a matter of put an "autorun.inf" on the cd containing this line?

[autorun]
OPEN=SETUP.EXE /AUTORUN

[Steve R Jones]

Isn't it just a matter of put an "autorun.inf" on the cd containing this line?

[autorun]
OPEN=SETUP.EXE /AUTORUN

There would have to be a Setup.exe file on it which does something important

[techgnome]

Isn't it just a matter of put an "autorun.inf" on the cd containing this line?

[autorun]
OPEN=SETUP.EXE /AUTORUN

There would have to be a Setup.exe file on it which does something important

Plus that's just autorun... not bottable... usually to be a bootable disk, a special record needs to be written to the boot sector of the disc, and it needs to contain some kind of OS.

-tg

[Shivapandian]

One of the easiest methods for creating a simple bootable CD is to use the CD recording software program you use to create CDs. Today, many of these programs have a feature already built within them that enables users to create a bootable CD.

[JuggaloBrotha]

I use Nero to make a bootable cd/dvd. It creates two parts on the disc profile, the bootable parts for your files you want access to on boot and the rest of the disc is for stuff you want access to either from an OS or from the booted OS that's on the first part of the disc.

[Lord Orwell]

i've also used nero for this. There's a setting for it, but you can also simply burn a bootable iso image.