System recover disk 2 of 2 not a good disk help

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pjoseph

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I recently had to reformat a laptop running Vista.
I have two system recovery DVD's I have used them once before with no problem.

I had to use them again on the same computer and now when it asks for disk 2 it says "not a good disc"

Not sure whats wrong with the disc, I put the disc in another laptop and copied it to the desktop and burned it to a DVD, when I tired the copied disc it ejects it after a few seconds or so.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
 
That won't work to create a bootable disk. You need the information on the disk in an image format (.img, .iso, etc) Then burn that to a disk. You might also look into a recovery partition, or at least, seeing if you have one.

Alternatively, if you had a large enough flash drive, you could follow lucasbytesgenious's guide on installing an OS via flash drive. It's the first sticky at the top of this sub-forum.
 
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Troncosos right, use something like "ImgBurn" - free and easy to use, or MagicISO or MagicDisc if you have it. Just burn the bootable image file to the disk using appropriate software
 
pjoseph said:
right clicked on the folder and hit send to DVD drive
Click to expand...

That will not work.You cannot just copy the DVD disk contents somewhere and then burn that to a blank disk.It is then like you are burning the disk as a DATA disk.And if you do it that way,the burned disk WILL have completely the SAME contents as the original disk,but it will NOT be BOOTABLE.
Every recovery disk needs to BOOT and therefore it MUST be BOOTABLE in order to be loaded so you can use it to let's say install an operating system from it like in your case.
Same applies for ALL other bootable disks.The Linux Ubuntu for example.When Ubuntu CD/DVD disk is read,it WILL boot (load),but if you burn it's contents as a DATA disk then it will NOT boot (load) even though it DOES HAVE COMPLETELY the same contents.

So if you want to make a copy of your Recovery Disk 2,you can do it on one of the following ways:

-use programs like Nero to COPY the original disk to a blank disk...(this is the easiest way)...
-create an image file from the original disk such as ISO,DAA,BIN and then burn that file to a blank disk using ANY program which are capable of burning those image files...such as PowerISO,Nero,Alcohol 120%,ImgBurn and so on...
-Copy all the contents from the original disk into one empty folder and then also use programs such as IsoBuster to take the BOOT SECTOR file from the original disk and then use that copied BOOT SECTOR file and load it on an empty disk (so that you make it bootable just like the original disk) and then copy those contents from that folder into the disk and burn it all together...(this is the hardest way)...

Of course there are also other ways of doing this,but those 3 ways written above are the most common.




Cheers everyone!
 
ok thanks for the replies

so first I would copy disk2 to my desktop and after use image burn to copy it from desktop to cd?

well just tried the above and I guess its wrong, when i use browse file in imgburn it says to select an img file to burn so i guess I have to convert it to an image first not sure how to.
 
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