vista install

I'm a friends and family vista beta tester. I received my disk a week or so ago, thank you.
I can't install it on my laptop. I will call MS tomorrow but thought I'd bug it here in case someone here can help. The details are as follows:
If installed from Windows XP as an upgrade, it gets to "Collecting Info" then a window setup window pops up and says "Setup encountered an internal error and cannot continue".
If I boot from the DVD, it starts to load and then I get a blue screen as follows:
"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for an updated bios.
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000A5 (0x00000011, 0x00000007, 0xFFD0D010, 0x0100000E)"
I have the latest BIOS Ver 1.9 dated April 2005.. It's a Toshiba M30X-S221TD. I bought it new in September 2005. Intel Celeron M 1.3GigHz, 512M RAM, and a 40 gig HD with 17 gig free hard drive space.
Thanks,
Tom

Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft! The notebook issue is a huge problem right now. The last post I read about this issue on MSDN was that they had over 20 unofficial models/brands of notebooks that failed the ACPI test. These are notebooks that range in age from just a few weeks to over 3 years old.
My Gateway Notebook (18 months old) also has the ACPI issue.
What gets me is that XP, different flavors of Linux, and OS X all work just fine, yet, Vista is the one that complains. Its hard for me not to point the figer at Microsoft and say "ACPI Compliant? No, I think its you."


On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:10:16 -0800, "Tom Tessier" wrote:

I'm a friends and family vista beta tester. I received my disk a week or so ago, thank you.
I can't install it on my laptop. I will call MS tomorrow but thought I'd bug it here in case someone here can help. The details are as follows:
If installed from Windows XP as an upgrade, it gets to "Collecting Info" then a window setup window pops up and says "Setup encountered an internal error and cannot continue".
If I boot from the DVD, it starts to load and then I get a blue screen as follows:
"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for an updated bios.
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000A5 (0x00000011, 0x00000007, 0xFFD0D010, 0x0100000E)"
I have the latest BIOS Ver 1.9 dated April 2005.. It's a Toshiba M30X-S221TD. I bought it new in September 2005. Intel Celeron M 1.3GigHz, 512M RAM, and a 40 gig HD with 17 gig free hard drive space.
Thanks,
Tom

I called MS tech support. They indicate it's a hardware problem and not a software problem and recommended I contact Toshiba. I don't think Toshiba is going to want to help me. LOL
Tom
-- Home Page: www.rvlover.net "Tom Tessier" wrote in message

I'm a friends and family vista beta tester. I received my disk a week or so ago, thank you.
I can't install it on my laptop. I will call MS tomorrow but thought I'd bug it here in case someone here can help. The details are as follows:
If installed from Windows XP as an upgrade, it gets to "Collecting Info" then a window setup window pops up and says "Setup encountered an internal error and cannot continue".
If I boot from the DVD, it starts to load and then I get a blue screen as follows:
"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for an updated bios.
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000A5 (0x00000011, 0x00000007, 0xFFD0D010, 0x0100000E)"
I have the latest BIOS Ver 1.9 dated April 2005.. It's a Toshiba M30X-S221TD. I bought it new in September 2005. Intel Celeron M 1.3GigHz, 512M RAM, and a 40 gig HD with 17 gig free hard drive space.
Thanks,
Tom

"Noah Body" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

What gets me is that XP, different flavors of Linux, and OS X all work just fine, yet, Vista is the one that complains.

You got OS X running on a standard non-Macintosh Notebook? How?

It can be done... ;o)
-- Zack Whittaker � ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk � MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org � Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk � This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--- Original message follows --- "Jens Mander" wrote in message

"Noah Body" schrieb im Newsbeitrag What gets me is that XP, different flavors of Linux, and OS X all work just fine, yet, Vista is the one that complains.
You got OS X running on a standard non-Macintosh Notebook? How?

Actually, you just boot a modified DVD and install it along side Windows/Linux.
Start here:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:55:14 -0000, "Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)" wrote:
>It can be done... ;o)

Vista will not install error:Windows cannot get info on drives.
I have three hard drives ,one for OS, and two other for data. I swap out the OS drive and started the load, no go. The second and third drives are formatted NTFS and have data and programs.
Any thoughts?

Have you got any drivers for these drives - if so, insert the disk and make sure they are installed properly, or load the driver at the Vista setup.
-- Zack Whittaker � ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk � MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org � Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk � This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "killbill" wrote in message

Vista will not install error:Windows cannot get info on drives.
I have three hard drives ,one for OS, and two other for data. I swap out the OS drive and started the load, no go. The second and third drives are formatted NTFS and have data and programs.
Any thoughts?

Just a suggestion if you want to retain XP when installing Vista.
(for advanced users only)
Many motherboards have the option in bios to set the boot drive, set the bios to boot to a different (empty) physical hdd and install Vista to the newly selected drive. Once installed it is a simple operation to change to or from Vista/XP in your bios at boot time.
Initially I physically disconnected my XP drive just to be certain it wasn't affected by the Vista install.
The only downside I have found is that you do lose your system restore points in Vista ( as in dual boot systems).

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:53:05 +1000, "Geoffw" wrote:

Just a suggestion if you want to retain XP when installing Vista.
(for advanced users only)
Many motherboards have the option in bios to set the boot drive, set the bios to boot to a different (empty) physical hdd and install Vista to the newly selected drive. Once installed it is a simple operation to change to or from Vista/XP in your bios at boot time.
Initially I physically disconnected my XP drive just to be certain it wasn't affected by the Vista install.
The only downside I have found is that you do lose your system restore points in Vista ( as in dual boot systems).
Yeah I tried the BIOS route but found its actually far quicker to just

switch hardware plugs. By the time I have gone through BIOS, changed settings, saved, re-booted etc, etc I can have Vista / XP running. I am using a old HP desktop PC which make swapping hardware particularly easy. I hasten to add the HP Hardware that came with it is long since binned and it is heavilly modded to accept the latest PSUs and boards.
Probably a good idea if access to the box is a pain in the bum though.
Jonah

Hi, I have tried installing Vista and keep getting error's. If I install Vista on a New XP istallation Vista installs and works great. If I instal Vista over an existing XP installation that I've been using for the past year it starts the install, copies teh files then reboots during the file expanding part. It reboots after about 30% of the files are expanded. From there I get a error during the reboot that I'm missing critical files. If I do a fresh install on a drive running a freashly installed version of XP then I have to reinstall all my programs and files and I don't want to do this. I have a Thinkpad T42P with a 120gig drive and 2 gigs or ram. Jimmy jimmydou@yahoo.com

How do you differentiate between installing Vista "on" an XP installation--you mean you dual boot it from XP and do you mean by installing over XP upgrading to Vista from XP? If you either dual boot or you install on a separate HD/box things should work fine. As to installing all your programs, you can probably install just a few not a ton of programs while its a Beta and be fine. If you're trying to upgrade from XP they have work to do on the upgrades but you shoul,d be able to. If you can explain *clearly* precisely how you want to install it and precisely what errors you get maybe someone could help further.
This may be of help: Make sure if you dual boot you always install the oldest operating system first. Do not install Vista and then try to install XP or you'll put yourself into errors that need bootsect and BCDedit repairing.
How to install Windows Vista Beta 2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918884/en-us
Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/windows-vista-beta-how-to-dual-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php
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"Jimmy Douglas" <Jimmy Douglas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

Hi, I have tried installing Vista and keep getting error's. If I install Vista on a New XP istallation Vista installs and works great. If I instal Vista over an existing XP installation that I've been using for the past year it starts the install, copies teh files then reboots during the file expanding part. It reboots after about 30% of the files are expanded. From there I get a error during the reboot that I'm missing critical files. If I do a fresh install on a drive running a freashly installed version of XP then I have to reinstall all my programs and files and I don't want to do this. I have a Thinkpad T42P with a 120gig drive and 2 gigs or ram. Jimmy jimmydou@yahoo.com

Hi Chad, sorry for the delay, I went on vacation. During the installation of Vista it provides you 2 options: 1. do want to upgrade (from an earlier version of Windows) 2. or perform a clean install which performs a format then a Vista install. I am trying to upgrade from XP. This particular drive I’ve been using for 6 months. It goes thru the installation process but fails while extracting the files. It gets to 20% then reboots. It then gives me the option of booting up in a Earlier version of Windows or Microsoft windows. As a side note: Looking at the install option I’m under the impression that it would install over XP. But it looks like it only loads with the dual boot option. If this is the case I’m not interested in having to operating systems on my laptop and having to install my software on XP and Vista. This will burn up to much precious laptop hard drive space. My second time around I installed on my Thinkpad a brand new HD. I installed Windows XP then installed Vista and it worked great. The difference between both installs is that the 1st failed when I tried to perform an upgrade installation and the 2nd one worked when it reformatted the drive.
Thanks for your help.
"Chad Harris" wrote:

How do you differentiate between installing Vista "on" an XP installation--you mean you dual boot it from XP and do you mean by installing over XP upgrading to Vista from XP? If you either dual boot or you install on a separate HD/box things should work fine. As to installing all your programs, you can probably install just a few not a ton of programs while its a Beta and be fine. If you're trying to upgrade from XP they have work to do on the upgrades but you shoul,d be able to. If you can explain *clearly* precisely how you want to install it and precisely what errors you get maybe someone could help further.
This may be of help: Make sure if you dual boot you always install the oldest operating system first. Do not install Vista and then try to install XP or you'll put yourself into errors that need bootsect and BCDedit repairing.
How to install Windows Vista Beta 2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918884/en-us
Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/windows-vista-beta-how-to-dual-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php
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"Jimmy Douglas" <Jimmy Douglas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message Hi, I have tried installing Vista and keep getting error's. If I install Vista on a New XP istallation Vista installs and works great. If I instal Vista over an existing XP installation that I've been using for the past year it starts the install, copies teh files then reboots during the file expanding part. It reboots after about 30% of the files are expanded. From there I get a error during the reboot that I'm missing critical files. If I do a fresh install on a drive running a freashly installed version of XP then I have to reinstall all my programs and files and I don't want to do this. I have a Thinkpad T42P with a 120gig drive and 2 gigs or ram. Jimmy jimmydou@yahoo.com

Setup does the first reboot at 20% of file expansion. This probably indicates that you have not provided a needed hard drive controller driver. You do this at the beginning of Setup when you see the Load Drivers button. A driver may be loaded from a floppy, cd, or flash drive.
This would happen no matter what update or clean instlallation scenario you were doing.
"Jimmy Douglas" wrote in message

Hi Chad, sorry for the delay, I went on vacation. During the installation of Vista it provides you 2 options: 1. do want to upgrade (from an earlier version of Windows) 2. or perform a clean install which performs a format then a Vista install. I am trying to upgrade from XP. This particular drive I've been using for 6 months. It goes thru the installation process but fails while extracting the files. It gets to 20% then reboots. It then gives me the option of booting up in a Earlier version of Windows or Microsoft windows. As a side note: Looking at the install option I'm under the impression that it would install over XP. But it looks like it only loads with the dual boot option. If this is the case I'm not interested in having to operating systems on my laptop and having to install my software on XP and Vista. This will burn up to much precious laptop hard drive space. My second time around I installed on my Thinkpad a brand new HD. I installed Windows XP then installed Vista and it worked great. The difference between both installs is that the 1st failed when I tried to perform an upgrade installation and the 2nd one worked when it reformatted the drive.
Thanks for your help.
"Chad Harris" wrote:
How do you differentiate between installing Vista "on" an XP installation--you mean you dual boot it from XP and do you mean by installing over XP upgrading to Vista from XP? If you either dual boot or you install on a separate HD/box things should work fine. As to installing all your programs, you can probably install just a few not a ton of programs while its a Beta and be fine. If you're trying to upgrade from XP they have work to do on the upgrades but you shoul,d be able to. If you can explain *clearly* precisely how you want to install it and precisely what errors you get maybe someone could help further.
This may be of help: Make sure if you dual boot you always install the oldest operating system first. Do not install Vista and then try to install XP or you'll put yourself into errors that need bootsect and BCDedit repairing.
How to install Windows Vista Beta 2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918884/en-us
Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/windows-vista-beta-how-to-dual-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php
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"Jimmy Douglas" <Jimmy Douglas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message Hi, I have tried installing Vista and keep getting error's. If I install Vista on a New XP istallation Vista installs and works great. If I instal Vista over an existing XP installation that I've been using for the past year it starts the install, copies teh files then reboots during the file expanding part. It reboots after about 30% of the files are expanded. From there I get a error during the reboot that I'm missing critical files. If I do a fresh install on a drive running a freashly installed version of XP then I have to reinstall all my programs and files and I don't want to do this. I have a Thinkpad T42P with a 120gig drive and 2 gigs or ram. Jimmy jimmydou@yahoo.com

Hi, I installed Vista and IE doesn't work. I tried a clean install and that works better, But a few programs works. My main program doesn't work, QuickBooks, I guess I will wait for the new computer.Even Windows live Care doesn't work. Also tried to install Office 2007 beta2 no go. Reinstalled Windows xp that works well. So bye , bye vista. The nightmare is over . Also dumped IE 7.0 beta2 , and I'm back to normal.
Betas installed
1. Windows Defender beta2 2. One Care 3. Windows Live messenger 8.0 beta
no errors
And all is well.

First off, I hope you don't put a live Quickbooks install on a beta OS! That wouldn't be good.
Second, what kind of errors did you get when trying to run the other programs?
--------------------------------------------------------------- Dustin Harper Vista Help and Knowledge Base: http://www.vistarip.com
"Franklin" wrote in message

Hi, I installed Vista and IE doesn't work. I tried a clean install and that works better, But a few programs works. My main program doesn't work, QuickBooks, I guess I will wait for the new computer.Even Windows live Care doesn't work. Also tried to install Office 2007 beta2 no go. Reinstalled Windows xp that works well. So bye , bye vista. The nightmare is over . Also dumped IE 7.0 beta2 , and I'm back to normal.
Betas installed
1. Windows Defender beta2 2. One Care 3. Windows Live messenger 8.0 beta
no errors
And all is well.

Hi, Yep I did, Don't say it. I planning to start a new business and I did not have any data in it. I ran the Vista upgrade advisor And it said update the display drivers on the clean install it worked fine and then run the windows update page a few times and the IE 7.0 froze on me. Got the not responding program and then I thought I'll try the upgrade intall was ok and then tried to windows update page the IE froze. Could not get on the IE for nothing to update my display drivers.
Dustin Harper wrote:

First off, I hope you don't put a live Quickbooks install on a beta OS! That wouldn't be good.
Second, what kind of errors did you get when trying to run the other programs?
--------------------------------------------------------------- Dustin Harper Vista Help and Knowledge Base: http://www.vistarip.com
"Franklin" wrote in message Hi, I installed Vista and IE doesn't work. I tried a clean install and that works better, But a few programs works. My main program doesn't work, QuickBooks, I guess I will wait for the new computer.Even Windows live Care doesn't work. Also tried to install Office 2007 beta2 no go. Reinstalled Windows xp that works well. So bye , bye vista. The nightmare is over . Also dumped IE 7.0 beta2 , and I'm back to normal.
Betas installed
1. Windows Defender beta2 2. One Care 3. Windows Live messenger 8.0 beta
no errors
And all is well.

Hi, I don't think IE updates has updated drivers for any particular video cards, you should, if you haven't yet, check the video card manufacturers website for vista drivers, most manufacturers have updated drivers for most of their equipment. However not all updates will work correctly. I have a Creative labs Audigy platinum EX sound card, i installed their vista drivers, the card works but no sound from the speakers, installed the XP drivers, no problem. Check to see if their are any bugs in the software as well. -- Gregory P. Getchell
"Franklin" wrote:

Hi, Yep I did, Don't say it. I planning to start a new business and I did not have any data in it. I ran the Vista upgrade advisor And it said update the display drivers on the clean install it worked fine and then run the windows update page a few times and the IE 7.0 froze on me. Got the not responding program and then I thought I'll try the upgrade intall was ok and then tried to windows update page the IE froze. Could not get on the IE for nothing to update my display drivers.
Dustin Harper wrote: First off, I hope you don't put a live Quickbooks install on a beta OS! That wouldn't be good.
Second, what kind of errors did you get when trying to run the other programs?
--------------------------------------------------------------- Dustin Harper Vista Help and Knowledge Base: http://www.vistarip.com
"Franklin" wrote in message Hi, I installed Vista and IE doesn't work. I tried a clean install and that works better, But a few programs works. My main program doesn't work, QuickBooks, I guess I will wait for the new computer.Even Windows live Care doesn't work. Also tried to install Office 2007 beta2 no go. Reinstalled Windows xp that works well. So bye , bye vista. The nightmare is over . Also dumped IE 7.0 beta2 , and I'm back to normal.
Betas installed
1. Windows Defender beta2 2. One Care 3. Windows Live messenger 8.0 beta
no errors
And all is well.

Your problem occurs before Vista even loads..............you have a problem in your BIOS settings. reasons for this: corrupt boot files.............reinstall Vista HD settings are incorrect............enter Bios and check floppy or CD in drive...........remove media boot devices not properly set in BIOS.............enter BIOS and correct loose connection..........open case and check bad HD .........................
peter "silverferro" wrote in message

I have got vista RC1(2600) downloaded from microsoft.I have the trial key which microsoft sent me too. The problem is vista installs with out and probems but when it reboots for the 1st time after installling initial drivers and setup files, it hangs at the part where it says "updating DMI pool data...." and nothing happens after that. Can someone help me?
I have : MSI K7N2 DELTA2-LSR Mainboard 512 MB DDR 160 GIG SATA2 seagate 20 GIG IDE maxtor in IDE slot 2 set as master Sumsung DVDRW in IDE slot 1 set as master. INNO3D GForce4 MX 440 SE AGP 8X 450W Power supply.

OK problem solved. Some how windows vista can't run on a drive which has been prepared by Acronis Disk Director. I found this when I replaced my main drive with a spare one and used Acronis Disk Director to use the full drive as one partition and formated it then install vista. The same problem where setup got stuck at "updating DMI pool data" occoured. Then I swaped another drive and this time too lazy to be bothered to format and parition with Acronis Disk Director I just partioned and formated the drive within vista during setup. And WALA!! it finished setup and rebooted to vista desktop. I was puzzled if partionioning with Acronis Disk Director was the problem. I again swaped the drive to the older one I prepared with Acronis Disk Director and this time, I partioned and formated within vista and it worked. SO the problem is using Acronis Disk Director and Vista togather.
Hope Acronis fixes this problem soon. I like their products very much compared to others. Their products do a great clean job without wasting even a bit and much faster then competing products.

While installing Vista on my 2nd drive (totally clean drive), the system goes through the whole install and gets to the point of completing the install. All of a sudden the screen goes black, the cursor goes to the far top left corner of the screen. I left it like this all night, and still no luck. This has happened around 4 or 5 times, in various stages of install on the D drive. I had installed Beta 1 on this drive before with no problems.
I have now totally re-formatted the D drive and tried again. The same results!

It is a primary partition.
"Ðave" wrote:

"jplappo" wrote in message While installing Vista on my 2nd drive (totally clean drive), the system goes through the whole install and gets to the point of completing the install. All of a sudden the screen goes black, the cursor goes to the far top left corner of the screen. I left it like this all night, and still no luck. This has happened around 4 or 5 times, in various stages of install on the D drive. I had installed Beta 1 on this drive before with no problems.
I have now totally re-formatted the D drive and tried again. The same results!
Is your D:\ partition set as primary? Vista doesn't seem to want to install on anything else

"jplappo" wrote in message

While installing Vista on my 2nd drive (totally clean drive), the system goes through the whole install and gets to the point of completing the install. All of a sudden the screen goes black, the cursor goes to the far top left corner of the screen. I left it like this all night, and still no luck. This has happened around 4 or 5 times, in various stages of install on the D drive. I had installed Beta 1 on this drive before with no problems.
I have now totally re-formatted the D drive and tried again. The same results!

Is your D:\ partition set as primary? Vista doesn't seem to want to install on anything else

I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

Whenyou downloaded the ISO file do you burn the DVd as an Image? And have you done a checksum on the DVD?
"si_nufc" wrote:

I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

i dont have a clue on how to do it as an image or how to do a checksum, so i probably havent so how can i do that?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:

Whenyou downloaded the ISO file do you burn the DVd as an Image? And have you done a checksum on the DVD?
"si_nufc" wrote:
I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

What do you use for burning software?
"si_nufc" wrote:

i dont have a clue on how to do it as an image or how to do a checksum, so i probably havent so how can i do that?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
Whenyou downloaded the ISO file do you burn the DVd as an Image? And have you done a checksum on the DVD?
"si_nufc" wrote:
I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

i use a nero package of some sort it says an OEM suite on the front not sure if thats any help
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:

What do you use for burning software?
"si_nufc" wrote:
i dont have a clue on how to do it as an image or how to do a checksum, so i probably havent so how can i do that?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
Whenyou downloaded the ISO file do you burn the DVd as an Image? And have you done a checksum on the DVD?
"si_nufc" wrote:
I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

Ok most versions of Nero can burn ISO images so you need to go to the help file of Nero and search for How to burn ISO Images. This is where you need to start!
"si_nufc" wrote:

i use a nero package of some sort it says an OEM suite on the front not sure if thats any help
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
What do you use for burning software?
"si_nufc" wrote:
i dont have a clue on how to do it as an image or how to do a checksum, so i probably havent so how can i do that?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
Whenyou downloaded the ISO file do you burn the DVd as an Image? And have you done a checksum on the DVD?
"si_nufc" wrote:
I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

do you think that i should create a bootable disk is that what i should be doing as it tells me how to create one is this the right thing?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:

Ok most versions of Nero can burn ISO images so you need to go to the help file of Nero and search for How to burn ISO Images. This is where you need to start!
"si_nufc" wrote:
i use a nero package of some sort it says an OEM suite on the front not sure if thats any help
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
What do you use for burning software?
"si_nufc" wrote:
i dont have a clue on how to do it as an image or how to do a checksum, so i probably havent so how can i do that?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
Whenyou downloaded the ISO file do you burn the DVd as an Image? And have you done a checksum on the DVD?
"si_nufc" wrote:
I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

You do not need to creat a bootable disk.. The ISO you downloaded is alredy bootable you need to write a image file from the ISO!!!
"si_nufc" wrote:

do you think that i should create a bootable disk is that what i should be doing as it tells me how to create one is this the right thing?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
Ok most versions of Nero can burn ISO images so you need to go to the help file of Nero and search for How to burn ISO Images. This is where you need to start!
"si_nufc" wrote:
i use a nero package of some sort it says an OEM suite on the front not sure if thats any help
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
What do you use for burning software?
"si_nufc" wrote:
i dont have a clue on how to do it as an image or how to do a checksum, so i probably havent so how can i do that?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
Whenyou downloaded the ISO file do you burn the DVd as an Image? And have you done a checksum on the DVD?
"si_nufc" wrote:
I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

Hey si_nufc, At this point are you sure you should be testing a beta OS? ISO images are very easy to do. ImgBurn is a free program that works well with the Vista ISO's, just burn it a 4x. You may want to educate yourself before you try Vista or you may have some serious issues. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:

You do not need to creat a bootable disk.. The ISO you downloaded is alredy bootable you need to write a image file from the ISO!!!
"si_nufc" wrote:
do you think that i should create a bootable disk is that what i should be doing as it tells me how to create one is this the right thing?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
Ok most versions of Nero can burn ISO images so you need to go to the help file of Nero and search for How to burn ISO Images. This is where you need to start!
"si_nufc" wrote:
i use a nero package of some sort it says an OEM suite on the front not sure if thats any help
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
What do you use for burning software?
"si_nufc" wrote:
i dont have a clue on how to do it as an image or how to do a checksum, so i probably havent so how can i do that?
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:
Whenyou downloaded the ISO file do you burn the DVd as an Image? And have you done a checksum on the DVD?
"" wrote:
I have downloaded windows vista 32-bit version from microsoft and burned it to dvd, i tried just to open the disk but it comes up saying find a program to run or use the internet or something like that, iv even tried restarting pc and pressing the F8 button like someone said but that does nothing either, can someone please point me in the right direction and tell me where i have gone in a little detail as im no expert at these things :)

Installed Vista all went well, logged on to I E 7 twice things worked pretty well, however I must have changed some settings somewhere because now I cannot get on the internet thru I E 7 . Is there a way to reselt the initial defaults at the time Vista installed???
Thanks Don

Go to internet options then choose to delete all temp files. Then restore IE to default in advanced options. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"don" wrote:

Installed Vista all went well, logged on to I E 7 twice things worked pretty well, however I must have changed some settings somewhere because now I cannot get on the internet thru I E 7 . Is there a way to reselt the initial defaults at the time Vista installed???
Thanks Don

I installed vista from the down load. Looks great works great and was exploring windows media center. Like it and would like to be more familiar with it. NOW after several days I can't find it anywhere. Its not in the startup files anywhere. Can't find it by searching either????? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also is it advisable to load from the Microsoft disks I ordered and just received? Can I just reinstall it using them???
Thanks -- bill

Click the Start button and type med in the search box. If it's installed it should show up on the Start menu.
Sorry, I don't understand your second question.
"bill" wrote in message

I installed vista from the down load. Looks great works great and was exploring windows media center. Like it and would like to be more familiar with it. NOW after several days I can't find it anywhere. Its not in the startup files anywhere. Can't find it by searching either????? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also is it advisable to load from the Microsoft disks I ordered and just received? Can I just reinstall it using them???
Thanks -- bill