Help! Trying to make a bootable image

[orionanomaly]

My RAID 0 recently failed, but I was able to recover all the files using 'RAID Recovery for Windows' software (Runtime Software).
I would like to try to reboot the recovered files from the RAID (it was an OS drive)

How can I go about doing this?

I thought if I created an image (.iso or .img?) of the files I could then boot from the image (say in a virtual machine), but I'm having difficulty doing that as I've never created a bootable image file before.

Am I going about this the right way?

Thanks in advance to any poster.