[bizzybody]

I made a bootable 4 gig USB stick to install a customized 32 bit Vista Ultimate, now I want to put that on a DVD-R - but when I search the web all I find are how-tos on making the bootable USB stick.

[jaclaz]

bizzybody, on 30 January 2013 - 02:34 AM, said:

I made a bootable 4 gig USB stick to install a customized 32 bit Vista Ultimate, now I want to put that on a DVD-R - but when I search the web all I find are how-tos on making the bootable USB stick.

I am not sure to understand.
Normally you have a DVD (or .iso) and you make FROM it a USB bootable stick.
HOW did you make originally the USB stick? (starting from what?) The "bought online and downloadable" version X13-49120.exe or something similar?

Making a DVD is however not particularly difficult (but as said it depends on the Source you have), probably the easiest would be using vlite:
http://www.genghiskh...s/vlitesp1.html

jaclaz

[bizzybody]

I used WinToFlash and a retail 32bit Vista DVD with all the versions. The only change I made was to add the OEM stuff for a Toshiba laptop which had the hard drive die, taking the restore partition with it. Now I want to make a DVD from the USB stick so the laptop's owner can have a disc to use if it needs to be restored again.

[jaclaz]

bizzybody, on 30 January 2013 - 05:23 AM, said:

I used WinToFlash and a retail 32bit Vista DVD with all the versions. The only change I made was to add the OEM stuff for a Toshiba laptop which had the hard drive die, taking the restore partition with it. Now I want to make a DVD from the USB stick so the laptop's owner can have a disc to use if it needs to be restored again.

I see.
Then all you need is OSCDIMG:
http://www.windowsva...7-bootable-dvd/

You might need to extract the etfsboot.com from the DVD, and probably also bootfix.bin:
http://blogs.msdn.co...dows-vista.aspx

See also:
http://www.msfn.org/...able-vista-dvd/
http://www.msfn.org/...a-bootable-dvd/
http://www.msfn.org/...a-dvd-bootable/


jaclaz