Check if a CD is bootable

[hairy_hats]

Why are you scared to boot off it?

[dlarkin77]

I'm not scared to boot off it, I just don't want to have to wait the 10 minutes it takes for the machine to restart.

[hairy_hats]

:D 10 mins rebooting is still quicker than downloading, setting up and running VMWare...

[Mladen Jankovic]

... and after all that he still needs to reboot. :-D (If I remember correctly, VMWare requires reboot after installation.)

[Genetic Algorithm Library]

[dlarkin77]

Yeah but I have VMWare installed already. As it turns out the disk isn't bootable anyway.

[rastaVnuce]

dlarkin77 wrote:

I've just created a bootable CD

So... you haven't created a bootable CD :)

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

[John M Drescher]

I could have virtualbox installed and booting off a cd in less time than it takes to reboot.

John

[Lost User]

Still would just take less time to reboot your machine...

[John M Drescher]

Since my XP SP3 box is connected to corporate network it takes at least 5 minutes to shutdown and the same 5 minutes to reboot. I am saying that installing virtualbox off my network share would probably be faster than that.

John

[Snowman58]

Open the CD with something like MajicISO or Roxio. It will tell you if the CD is bootable.