How To Make A Bootable DVD or CD

Making a bootable cd or converting a file into a cd haven’t been made easy. But today, we will be giving you a detailed explanatory procedures on how you can personally create a bootable file yourself without stress.

To do the above procedure perfectly, follow the below detailed provided solution by freebiestech and apply it…

What’s needed to make a bootable CD or DVD?

To create a bootable disk, you’ll need three things:

• Your computer must have an optical read/write drive,
• A blank DVD or CD that will become your boot disk,
• A software utility that will create the boot media. While there are other tools available, we’ll be using Acronis Disk Director 12. It is fully certified to work with all Windows operating systems up to and including Windows 10, and can run in the Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE). With WinPE-based media you can boot a crashed machine or one without any operating system.

How to make a bootable DVD or CD

Making a rescue boot disk using Acronis Disk Director 12 a simple process.

• Download Acronis Bootable Media Builder HERE
• In the main window, click Tools and open the Acronis Bootable Media Builder:

• On the welcome screen, click Next:

• Next, select Windows PE for the bootable media type, and Windows-like representation for the drive:

• To create WinPE boot media, your machine must have the Windows’ Automated Installation Kit (AIK) installed. If it’s already installed, Acronis Disk Director 12 will detect it. If not, you will be prompted to download and install it.

• You’ll then be able to Create WinPE automatically, and the WinPE preparation will start.

• If you have compatibility issues with the machine’s hardware and the WinPE media, you’ll be able to add any specific drivers you need:

• Then simply select the type of media to create. Generally you’ll want to select an ISO image, but if you are creating a custom WinPE image, you have the option to create a WIM image file.

• Then you just choose where to save the image file and click Proceed.

• Once the WinPE media image is created, simply burn it to a disk.

How to boot from DVD or CD rescue media

1. Go to your computer’s BIOS settings and confirm that the optical drive is listed first in the boot sequence. If it is not, reorder the list so the optical drive is first. That ensures your computer to boot from the DVD (or CD) instead of the hard drive as it normally does. (Most computers with an optical drive are already have it as the first boot item, but you should check first.)
2. Insert the rescue boot disk into the optical drive.
3. Restart your computer. You can do that from within Windows or a hard reset using the power button.
4. Stay alert! Depending on your system, you may be prompted with a message to “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD” and you will only have a few seconds to respond.
   If you do not press a key, your computer will go to the next device in the boot sequence list, which will likely be your hard drive…so you’ll have to restart the system again.
5. Your computer should start using the rescue boot disk.

Troubleshooting boot disk

If you followed all of these steps above, everything should be working fine. But if you find that your system is not booting from the disk like it’s supposed to, there are a few things you can check.

1. Check the BIOS boot order again. Go back and make sure the optical drive was saved as the first in the boot order… an incorrect BIOS configuration is the most common issue.
2. Is it the right disk drive? If your computer has more than one optical drive, insert the boot disk into the other drive and try again. Your system might only boot from a specific drive.
3. Create a new boot disk. While unlikely, it is possible that the disk used to create the boot media was faulty. Rather than retrying the same rescue disk, burn a new one and see if that works. 

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