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3. August 2006 @ 12:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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?
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3. August 2006 @ 12:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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
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