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Windows 7 Disc Image Burner [Experimentation]
I've recently started messing around with the Windows 7 Disc Image Burner, because I'm going to write a tutorial on slipstreaming SP1 into a bootable installation DVD. So, before I started looking for a third party DVD burner program, I wanted to see what the native burner program could do. I started off by burning the Windows 7 bootable ISO image I downloaded from TechNet. I was thinking there's no way it will remain bootable by burning it with the native program. WROOOOONG!
First off, let's smash the myth that all operating system ISO images will remain bootable no matter how you burn it. That's just not so. I have about a million coasters to proove it too....LOL
However, the bootable ISO I burned with the native Windows 7 burner, needed a little "coaxing" to boot with the BIOS set to "CD" as the first boot device. I had to keep pressing the "enter" button as the BIOS was searching what to boot from. You more advanced users will know exactly what I'm talking about. It also worked with the BIOS set to boot from the HDD as it's first device. It detected bootable media in the DVD drive [again I kept pressing the "enter" button continuously]. It's not uncommon with the old machine I have [my lab machine] to not want to boot from my SATA DVD drive, so I tried an IDE DVD drive, and it booted right up.
So tell me, have any of you guys messed around with the Windows 7 native burner program? If so, what are it's limits? I'm wondering if maybe we can slam it with some steroids or something, because I like what I'm seeing so far from the initial testing. I'm thinking maybe I can create a bootable ISO slipstreamed SP1 installation DVD without having to use a third party program at all, like Nero...ISObuster...or ISOMagic...etc. I was also able to extract the files within the ISO image with the native program as well.
So far it's been able to do pretty much everything I thought it couldn't...LOL
So has anyone here done much experimenting with it? Do you know of any Microsoft Knowledge Base articles on this program? Any feedback would be great. I want to see if maybe we can unlock it's potential?
Peace
Last edited by David Ben Yosef; 04 Mar 2011 at 16:36. Reason: Spelling