UBCD4Windows creates empty iso file

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I've got a case of a laptop that goes round and round thru the famous BSOD. I cannot disable the automatic reboot in BIOS, F8 does not work either and booting into the Safe Mode results in another BSOD. I did some research and found How To Disable Automatic Restart For BSOD If You Are Unable To Get Into Windows which uses UBCD4Win as a tool. I head to How to Build the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows and closely follow the steps yet I get the following in the log file:

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C:\UBCD4Win\mkisofs.exe -iso-level 4 -volid "The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows" -b bootsect.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -hide bootsect.bin -hide boot.catalog -o "C:\UBCD4Win\test.iso" "C:\UBCD4Win\BartPE"
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C:\UBCD4Win\BartPE>"C:\UBCD4Win\temp\mkisofs.exe" -iso-level 4 -volid ""UBCD4Windows"" -A PEBUILDER/MKISOFS -sysid ""Win32"" -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -hide boot.catalog -allow-lowercase -R -U -sort C:\UBCD4Win\temp\pe_sort.txt -duplicates-once -b BOOTSECT.BIN -hide BOOTSECT.BIN -o "C:\UBCD4Win\test.iso" .   2>&1  | mtee /+ C:\UBCD4Win\autobuild.log 
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Building ISO image done

When I browse to the test.iso file I get file with 0 bytes and I cannot burn that.

I've tried running IMGburn and building iso with that but that did not work well. Can someone point to the rights direction to fix this problem? Thanks

Answer 1

I had the same problem with UBCD4Win. I point it to my WinXP CDROM on hard drive with SP2 and it makes a 0kB ISO file. Then I realised from http://www.ubcd4win.org/faq.htm#require that you have to run the program from Microsoft Windows XP. You can't run it from Win7/8/10. Fair enough. The solution is to run WinXP on VirtualBox in order to create the UBCD ISO.