Bootable CD problem

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Rigsby

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I'm having an issue creating a bootable CD.

I created a System Repair Disk via the "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" (which an odd title in itself). After the initial creation looking at the disk in File Explorer shows files/folders and it has a label. Upon trying to boot from it, it just goes into Windows normally and in File Explorer the contents of the CD are empty.

Just to make sure, I created an Easus emergency disk (bootable). It (said it) successfully created it and after writing it, ejected the disk. I popped it back in and it was a blank disk. Strangely however, upon inserting the same disk into my laptop it shows a bootable disk complete with files & folders.

I eventually made an Easus emergency disk on a flash drive. That worked fine.

Is it just a bad CD writer (I don't use it a great deal and it's a relatively new PC) or is something else occurring ??

Any ideas would be welcome.
 
Why not use Media Creation Tool to burn a DVD or flash drive of the latest Windows then use that as a Repair tool. You can boot it as if you were doing an install but take the Repair path instead of install to use the available tools or press Alt+F10 at eh first window presented to get to a COmmand Prompt if you want to do things like use diskpart or bcdedit or run chkdsk.
 
@Rigsby,

Have you checked the bootable CD you created again in the machine you created it in after the machine has been rebooted? Optical media drives (CD/DVD) are notorious for being cranky at times, which is one of the reasons I don't generally create bootable media on optical media anymore (and, also, because fewer and fewer newer machines are coming with an optical media drive.

I would suspect an issue with the CD drive before anything else, and that's even if the drive does fine writing media, but then is cranky about reading it.

By the way, do NOT use Backup & Restore (Windows 7) as your backup and recovery method. It is called that because it is a hold over, and always intended as temporary, that would have allowed backups created long ago to be restored. Microsoft deprecated the core component of this utility all the way back at Version 1709. It could disappear without warning. See: Microsoft Announcement of Deprecated Features, including SIB [Backup and Restore (Windows 7), V1709].

Choose a third-party backup and recovery utility as Microsoft recommends. EaseUS To Do Backup, Macrium Reflect, and Paragon are three good ones.
 

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