Create a bootable Windows Server 2003 CD

Part 3 of a 3-part series.
Part 1: Install Windows Server 2003 silently
Part 2: Files hold key for 'silent' Windows Server install

I explained in parts 1 and 2 how to create the directory structure for a silent installation of Windows Server 2003 and gave examples for the special files and scripts you need to create. In this final part of the series, I explain in six easy steps how to make the CD bootable.

Producing a bootable CD is a relatively straightforward process. You need a program to pull the boot image file from your regular Windows Server 2003 CD and a CD drive capable of writing to CDs. And, of course, you need an installed program to create the CD.

I used ISO Buster 1.7 to pull the boot image file from the CD. ISO Buster is a part freeware and part shareware data recovery tool. You can use the freeware capabilities to do what we need to do here, but you will probably want to go make a donation or register it once you see all that it can do. I used Roxio Easy CD Creator to create the CD in this example, but you can adapt these instructions to any CD-burning program.

Follow these six steps to make the CD bootable:

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