Whether you are looking to install Windows 8 on multiple computers or are planning to install Windows 8 on your Mac using Boot Camp, you would need to create a bootable DVD using the installer media.
What follows is a step-by-step guide that will help you create a bootable DVD using Windows 8 ISO images. If your computer doesn’t have a DVD burner, you may create bootable USB flash drives as well using the same procedure. Let’s get started.
Oct 26, 2012 Whether you are looking to install Windows 8 on multiple computers or are planning to install Windows 8 on your Mac using Boot Camp, you would need to create a bootable DVD using the installer media. What follows is a step-by-step guide that will help you create a bootable DVD using Windows 8 ISO images.
Create a Windows 8 Bootable DVD
First download the ISO image of Windows 8 installer to your local disk. Then download and install the Windows 7 DVD / USB tool from here. This is a free utility that is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
Launch the Windows DVD tool and and browse for the Windows 8 ISO file on your disk. Click Next.
If you are creating a bootable Windows 8 DVD, use DVD for the media type else select USB in case you want to turn your USB Flash Drive into an installation media for Windows 8.
For this example, we will create a bootable Windows 8 DVD. Insert a blank DVD disk into the drive and and hit the Begin Burning button.
In the next few minutes, the bootable DVD will be ready for you to install Windows 8 on any of your other machines. You may also use a Blu-Ray disk as long as your DVD drive is capable of writing to a Blu-Ray DVD. The tool doesn’t support dual-layer DVD discs though.
You'll also like:Even if you’ve never had experience with rescue boot media before, don’t worry. Making a bootable DVD or CD is not difficult and it ensures you can get your system running, even when it doesn’t want to. What is rescue boot media?
Normally when powering your computer, the system “boots” (a.k.a. starts) from the operating system (OS) that is installed on your hard drive. Whether it is Windows, Linux, macOS, or something else, the OS tells all of the components of your computer what to do.
But sometimes you cannot use the installed OS, either because it is damaged or because you’re going to make changes to the OS that you cannot make while it’s in use. That’s where boot media comes in: it’s essentially a small, stripped down version of your operating system that can get your computer running when you can’t use the OS on your hard drive. You can create boot media on a DVD, CD or Blu-ray disk that is loaded through your optical drive, which we’ll describe below. (You can also store your rescue “disk” on a USB drive, but the process for creating and using USB boot media is different.) What’s needed to make a bootable CD or DVD?
To create a bootable disk, you’ll need three things:
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You can also create a Linux-based boot media disk using Acronis Disk Director 12. You can find instruction on how to do that here. How to make a bootable DVD or CD
Making a rescue boot disk using Acronis Disk Director 12 a simple process.
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If you followed all of these steps above, everything should be working fine. But if you find that your system is not booting from the disk like it’s supposed to, there are a few things you can check.
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