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!

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.