Boot to non-finalized CD?

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quantumburnz

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Hey all,
Crazy question -- I just downloaded Hiren's newest boot CD. It's only ~250MB. I want to burn it to CD but I'm limited on CDs. Does anyone know if I burn the CD and not finalize it, can I still boot to it? Any input or solution would be appreciated, thanks!
 
why would you want to not finalize the CD? It's been written to at that point so it's not as if you can "erase" it and burn it again. It's a write once medium, unless you use CD-RW in which case you'd still want to let it finalize the burn before using it. I think you're confused as to what "finalize" means.

Dustin
 
I'd like to not finalize it so I could add more things later, more tools, maybe newer versions, etc.

From my understanding, finalize just means you can't write to it again -- it's done, final, etc.

So am I off my rocker? Is what I want to do possible or no?
 
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the only problem I can remember having with non-finalized CD-Rs was that it wouldn't work on most other CD-players. I seem to remember it working fine on my computer's CD-player, or at least the CD burner. So if you can boot from that one, it would hopefully work.
 
but the only problem I can remember having with non-finalized CD-Rs was that it wouldn't work on most other CD-players
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I'm 99.99% sure that's correct.

I know they will still work on the drive that burned them but unless it's reusable media, you can only add to the disk and not remove what's there.
 
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