Help needed - trying to create a recovery disc

Dollardog

Need to get to bed, going to have to admit defeat for the time being, have another go tomorrow.

Donnie

Dollardog wrote: »

It wouldn't burn it, came up with Command Sequence error, amongst other things.

Didn't ask me if it was Image to disc or Data disc

Donnie

Dollardog wrote: »

Oh er - just put cd in drive again to see if it said anything was on it, and a screen came up asking if I wanted to install Windows.
Think I'll try putting it in laptop, see what happens, although the disc says there's nothing on it - how odd!!

You have place the CD in the laptop drive, restart and hit Enter when you see 'Boot from CD'.

Dollardog

It wasn't coming up with 'Boot from CD', but solved that one by pressing the 'Fn' key

Going to try to get a proper Windows disc as I don't think this copy is any good, either that, or try burning it again on an ordinary CD-R like you said.

Appreciate your help.

Donnie

Change the Boot Order in the BIOS.

Dollardog

Tried burning the image again to a cd-r, but got the same error near the end of the burn - Write error - incompatible medium.

Don't know what to do now except leave it until tomorrow.

closed

Try imgburn

TechWizz

Hi providing you live in mainland uk i can ship a disk out to you free of charge.

Donnie

TechWizz wrote: »

Hi providing you live in mainland uk i can ship a disk out to you free of charge.

HP Compaq OEM disc? Otherwise the OP might have problems with activation.

Donnie

closed wrote: »

Try imgburn

I expect she is using ImgBurn as I linked to it initially.