Bootable disc
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The Load segment field should probably be 7C0 (seven-c-zero) as shown below, for a Windows XP bootable disc.
To make a disc bootable, either use the menu (Disc → Boot Options) or click on the Boot Options button in the burning dialog.
Then check the box Make disc bootable.
Now you have to choose your boot image. You can either use one of your own, or you can download a boot image from our webpage with the most important DOS programs. As a last option, you can also create a boot image from a bootable floppy. To do that, press the “floppy image” button in the same dialog.
After you chose a suitable boot image, you have to choose the emulation type. Note that the size of the emulated medium has to be at least as big as the boot image you use. Otherwise it won't work. So for our boot image you have to use “Floppy 2.88MB”. The files which you have added (if any) to the CD layout in CDBurnerXP compilation window do not have any influence on what type of emulation you have to use. You can also choose other boot emulation types if you need them, but usually floppy emulation will do fine.
- “Bootable emulation” (Floppy/HD) causes the image to be mapped to drive A or C, as a conventional bootable storage device.
- “No emulation” is a special mode which loads the image into memory and executes it - extremely useful when developing copy protection or “smart” CDs designed for a variety of disparate systems. For example, the “no emulation” mode is used in the Windows NT operating system CDs.
For Windows NT/2000/XP boot images, disable ISO version number extension (;1) and do enforce ISO Level 1 .
If you have a bootable ISO-image you want to burn (like you get from BartPE or UltimateBootDisc for Windows), you have to use the burn ISO feature. You don't have to enable any boot option there, this will automatically be done.
Note that after you made your disc bootable, the CD root icon in CD layout will get another symbol.