Making a boot disk

[EmberPhoenix]

Due to hard drive issues, I have been booting my computer from a boot disk. I am not to happy with the one that I am using now, so a friend told me I should try ubuntu. I downloaded the ISO and then burned the ISO to a disk. When I tried to boot with it, nothing happened. I then opened the disk on a different computer, and it has an EXE file on it, but no boot files. Did I do something wrong, or is there another version I can download that can be used on a boot disk?

[cariboo]

Did you burn the iso as an image? Or just burn the iso to disk.

[pastalavista]

If you want a faster OS than a boot CD, download Unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) and make a bootable USB flash drive. It will download and install on a USB flash drive several different distros or it can use an iso you've already downloaded. Make sure your BIOS is able to boot from a USB flash drive first... if so, set it to boot before the Hard disk. It is way faster to run than from a CD.

[EmberPhoenix]

Did you burn the iso as an image? Or just burn the iso to disk.

I burned it as an image.