These days, a large section of PC users are using USB drives as bootable media to install Windows 10. USB installations are usually a bit faster than traditional DVD-based installations, meaning you can quickly install Windows while using USB as bootable media.
That said, not everyone has a spare USB key all the time. At times, you might need to burn a DVD to make it bootable and install Windows 10 from the same.
Having a bootable Windows 10 DVD makes sense if your PC doesn’t support booting from USB or if you often need to install Windows 10 but don’t have the time and patience to create bootable Windows 10 USB each time before installing Windows 10.
If you don’t have the Windows 10 ISO file already, refer to the directions in our how to download the latest version of Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft guide.
Method 1 of 3
Prepare Windows 10 bootable DVD from ISO
Go for this method if you’re on Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, or Windows 10. In this method, we will use the native ISO burning tool to prepare a bootable Windows 10 DVD.
Step 1: Insert a blank DVD into the optical drive (CD/DVD drive) of your PC.
Step 2: Open File Explorer (Windows Explorer) and navigate to the folder where the Windows 10 ISO image file is located. Once again, if you do not have the Windows 10 ISO file, you need to get it from Microsoft. Refer to our how to download Windows 10 ISO file guide for step-by-step directions.
Step 3: Right-click on the ISO file and then click the Burn disc image option. This action will open the Burn Disk Image or Windows Disc Image Burner (in Windows 8/8.1) dialog.
Note: If the Burn disc image option is not appearing in the context menu when you right-click on the Windows 10 ISO image file, please follow the directions mentioned in our fix to burn disc image option missing from the context menu guide to resolve the issue.
Step 4: Here select your DVD/CD drive from the drop-down box next to the Disc burner.
Step 5: Finally, click the Burn button to begin creating your bootable Windows 10 DVD.
Once the bootable Windows 10 DVD is ready, you need to make appropriate changes (change the boot priority to CD/DVD) to the UEFI/BIOS to boot your PC from the bootable DVD to begin installing Windows 10.
Method 2 of 3
Bootable Windows 10 DVD using ImgBurn
If you’re having issues with the method mentioned above, you can use a third-party ISO burning tool to prepare a bootable Windows 10 DVD. There are plenty of free tools available for the job. In this method, we are going to use a free software called ImgBurn.
Step 1: Download ImgBurn from this page and install the same on your working Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10 PC.
WARNING: The setup of ImgBurn (at least, the current version) tries to install the Razer Web browser plugin. While installing ImgBurn, select the Custom install option and then uncheck the option titled Install Razor Web option.
Step 2: Launch the ImgBurn application. Click the option titled Write image file to disc.
Step 3: Next, click the browse button in the Source section (see picture) to browse to the Windows 10 ISO image and select the same.
Step 4: Finally, click the Write button to begin burning the bootable Windows 10 DVD.
Method 3 of 3
Bootable Windows 10 DVD from installation files/folders
If you have files and folders extracted from a Windows 10 ISO image (installation files of Windows 10), you can create an ISO image out of it by following the directions mentioned in our how to create bootable Windows ISO image from files/folders guide. The guide uses the above-mentioned free ImgBurn software, which is very easy to use.
admin says
To download Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft, please refer to the directions in this guide:
https://www.intowindows.com/download-windows-10-latest-version-iso/
Pajeet Goldberg says
This article works as long as you have a Windows 10 ISO. It is typically a 4GB file. That means downloading it from wherever you can get it. That’s why the complaining commenters can’t find it on their systems.
The ISO I have, however, doesn’t work with the article’s methods. It boots, but only in MBR mode, UEFI instructions appear not to exist on it. It’s probably the particular ISO I found, perhaps it wasn’t compiled by Microsoft. I can make a UEFI bootable USB drive (MBR too) with Rufus, but I need to make separate drives for MBR and UEFI, one drive can’t do both, and DVDs can only boot MBR. Rufus likely installs the missing UEFI instructions for the USBs.
The ISO I have was compiled with both ISO9660 and UDF file systems which could be the issue, as encountered in this forum:
forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/24193-problem-i-can-not-create-a-uefi-bootable-iso-image/
Billy says
I dont wanna mad but this is wasting my time! You say that create from .iso file but that shit dont have in my pc! You said that burn from folder but you didn’t show WHAT FOLDER?! can you please be DETAIL???? My 10 min is WASTED for this!
H. Bernier says
I happen to be a highly accomplished artist but not a very accomplished computer user. Advice like this would be like me telling someone who asked me how to paint to check out Da Vinci’s drawings. What a freakin joke all of this crap is.
Michael Tobener says
Avoid this SHIT like the plague. Even if you do over scrutinize and uncheck all of the unwanted add ons you will get bombarded with Malware!!!
BC says
“…navigate to the folder where Windows 10 ISO image file is located.”
Could you give us the name of the file? Searches for *.iso returned no useful results.
mark armstrong says
Sorry, this is a junk article. In the first method, we have:
Step 2: Open File Explorer (Windows Explorer) and navigate to the folder where Windows 10 ISO image file is located.
Perhaps this is where the author might provide a little more detail!
Isaac says
Please update this article. ImgBurn used to be a software I used like 10 years ago but nowadays the program installs Malware. Keep away from it and use something else if you read this!
L says
Just checked method one, didn’t work for me. Remove it, please!
Davonte says
Hey Guys the reason this solution isnt working, With Img burn is do to whomever wrote this, negleted to put the final step after you select the iso image, you must click advanced, and select make bootable, then select a boot img, you can google and download the bootimg for your OS.
shivam says
Thanks i create my bootable dvd
Daniel says
windows burn iso doesn’t create a bootable iso. imgburn does
Aweeee says
I read the above comment said that at least any of the method or solution you write did not work. Then why you don’t reply to them??? Why you don’t try to give solutions???
Priyanshu says
I did with imgburn with both the methods you told but it didn’t worked
Shuti Chou says
Thank you for the post. I did create a bootable DVD disk and solved my laptop’s issue.
Keepan says
Tried method one, didn’t work for me. I press any key when instructed so on startup but the computer just reboots…