Lost My Cd. Please Help!!

[iphonogasm]

Hi, this is my first post on these forums,

I purchased windows server 2008 a while ago and have misplaced the CD, luckily i have backed it up by copying it (backup freak haha)



now my problem is i need to reinstall it but cannot boot from the CD, i have first boot device set to CDROM drive in the BIOS and it doesnt read it and give the option to boot from it?



any ideas on how i could burn a boot image to make it bootable?



Thanks in advance!

 

[RSchwarz]

Create a bootable usb thumb drive.

You can use this tutorial I wrote to do that.

http://eightforum.com/topic/85-installing-windows-7-from-usb-stick/

Set the bois to boot from the usb drive and the install should start.