Make A Windows Recovery DVD Boot Disk From A Download ISO

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CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs from an ISO file, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multi-language interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include ad-ware or similar malicious components.

How to Burn a Boot Recovery DVD

Once you have downloaded and either installed CDBurnerXP or invoked it from the portable version, you will see a screen as per the picture above.

First select "Burn ISO image", it will highlight when selected,  and then click next.

Next you will need to select the ISO that you want to burn to a DVD. CDBurnerXP can detect if the ISO image is a boot DVD or not and will automatically burn a boot DVD if required. Keep in min only the System Recovery ISO is a boot DVDD the Driver Recovery ISO is not a Boot DVD and must be invoked from a running system.

Select the ISO you need to burn and press open or OK.

Make sure you have ticked the box to say "verify data after burn". Do not burn anything faster than 24x speed. If you have time to wait for the burning process to complete, select x4 to make sure you get an error free DVD. Keep in mind the verify process will also take around 15 minutes.

Then press the Burn Disk button.

All DVD blanks are NOT the same!!

Depending on brand and quality, some will be very slightly smaller than others. This may mean that the your blank DVD is not big enough to fit the ISO image. If the disk it too small, not writable or you have forgotten to put a DVD into your optical device, you will see an error similar to the one below.

As soon as you have the correct sized DVD inserted, then the error dialog box will automatically disappear.

Once the recovery DVD has started burning you will see a progress bar as above.

After the burn you will see another progress bar that will will display the verifying progress. This may take > 15 minutes.

Thats it, you can now repeat the process to make your Driver Recovery DVD.

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Updated 06/04/2023