How to copy a damaged bootable CD

[okalex]

I have a bootable CD with a physically damaged area which is unreadable, which makes CD copying software fail when trying to copy it. Fortunately, the damaged area does not contain any important information (this is a windows 98 OS with two versions, localized and local-lang-enabled, and all the files belonging to the version I need are readable). So I can just burn the files I need into a new CD, but then it is not bootable.

I want to make a bootable CD containing the available data from my damaged CD. Is there a way to do this? I have both windows and linux, so recommendations for software that can do this for any of these OSs is welcome. I am, however, not a very skilled user, so don't expect assume I'll understand highly technical explanations...

Many thanks in advance

 

[treize]

If the bootsector of the cdrom can still be read, you can use a program like ISObuster to extract the bootable image file, and then use Nero or whatever burning program you have to use that image file along with the CD's remaining data files to create a bootable CD.

The process similar to that of creating a slipstream XP SP2 disk.
On that page you would simply begin with step 4, substituting the the files from your CD instead of the XP files.

If your burning program doesn't support making bootable CDs, you can use CD Burner XP Pro.

 

[okalex]

Thank you very much! Seems exactly like what I need.