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. 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.īut 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. To create a bootable disk, you’ll need three things: (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? 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.
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