Using a Dell e6500 Latitude Laptop running Ubuntu (Maverick). I've been trying desperately using wodim, growisofs, dd, and cdrecord to try and write a Windows .iso to some sort of media (Yes, it is legal. It's Enterprise version and is being provided through my college). For some reason I do not know, I've been getting error after error regarding being either incapable of writing to the medium or else being incapable of sensing and running the software at boottime.
Eventually I was capable of pressing through the process of writing to both the DVD drive and the USB drive (whether or not it was properly or not I don't know. I never found out how to verify the data after the burning process). During boottime, when booting from the USB, it eventually says that there is no boot sector on the flash drive. When done with the DVD, it simply never gives an output and just fails, defaulting into booting Ubuntu.
At this point I'm at wits end. I've sifted through so many forum posts and have been trying desperately to understand why my system is acting like this. If you think you might be able to help, please do. I'm completely stumped.