Windows 7 on my mom's Edge has crapped out again, this time such that the 
recovery partition didn't work. I think I know why the latter happened: we 
tried a Windows recovery-without-data-loss from the recovery console, which 
failed partway through, then tried the factory restore *without* rebooting. 
That failed with "a file is in use", and after that, it wouldn't go into the 
recovery console at all. So I called IBM and have a set of recovery discs 
in-hand.

 

Alas, she's still 500 miles away. A friend there is happy to feed it the discs; 
I'd rather not overnight them across the border, since that could take years 
and cost millions of lives, so my question is:

 

If I send him .ISOs of the CDs and he burns copies, will those burned copies 
work? Or not, because they won't be bootable? I don't know enough about .ISOs 
to know whether it includes the boot records.

 

Anyone?

 

Thanks,

 

.phsiii

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