Forum: UltraISO
Topic: Hard Drive to ISO
started by: tring
Posted by tring on Dec. 20 2005,14:41
I would like to make sure I can do this easily with this software before I purchase it.  

My main objective is to take my hard drive image and bring it to a DVD.  The DVD has to be bootable, so I can place it in a like machine reboot it boots with the image recorded on the DVD from the original hard drive.

Seems like a simple enough task, but I am having a lot of issues finding software to do this.  I currently have Nero Express 6 and Nero 7 Ultra.  I have been told this can do it but the documentation is not there to support the product and I do not have enough experience to figure it out.  Though I have spent the last two days trying to figure it out.
Posted by xoben on Dec. 21 2005,01:32
Sorry, UltraISO cannot create a bootable DVD from harddisk directly.

Suggestion: Use BartPE (http://www.nu2.nu/) to create a bootable DVD , which can start Windows XP with your favorite utilities.
Posted by tring on Dec. 21 2005,11:08
Xoben,

Just checked BartPE, unless I read it wrong this is not exactly what I am trying to do.  

Maybe I mis understood the description, I have never tried this before so I probably did not explain it properly.

I installed Windows 2000 server and loaded some applications (IIS and XML applications) on the server.  I want to take the hard drive image I setup and put that on a DVD.  I need that DVD to be able to boot up on a like system (IBM T40 Laptop) and look and feel like the original system.  The only thing their system would be used for is to serve the XML applications.

Nothing ilegal, nothing imoral, it will be used to demonstrate the applications.  I need to boot like this because I cannot depend on someones system to have IIS on it and cannot load it on someones system.  (I also load DNS/DHCP because the endpoints connecting in connect directly to ethernet port and have to have a specific IP Addressing, ect)
Posted by terriff on Dec. 21 2005,17:30
What you are trying to do is not possible.

The closest solution for you might be to use virtual machines, which can be run between different computers as the virtual (emulated) hardware that the virtual machine runs on is consistent across computers.

Look at VMWare Workstation or Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.