I cannot believe it!

[Guest]

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.

 

[jonah]

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.

Last one I burned was 5384.4 no problems, had problems before though
needing a re-burn to fix.

If you have a file check hash use it, Linux autochecks DVD before
installing, be nice if windows would do the same.

Try again but set your burner up for minimum speed and don't run any
apps at all while burning, leave it alone until it pops out cooked.

Jonah

 

[John Jay Smith]

there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that compares
a dvd with the hash file
(I think you can the hash on the ms site)

I have not tried it personally

let me know if this helps

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Try this for alternative ways to install - option 4 )
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted

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» 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 :--

there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that
compares a dvd with the hash file
(I think you can the hash on the ms site)

I have not tried it personally

let me know if this helps

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished.
I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your
local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that
button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe
mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download
was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on
DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the
whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high
level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jonah,

Unfortunately I do not have the original ISO download anymore (my fault).

You didn't mean copy the already burned DVD to another, using minimum speed,
did you?

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.

Last one I burned was 5384.4 no problems, had problems before though
needing a re-burn to fix.

If you have a file check hash use it, Linux autochecks DVD before
installing, be nice if windows would do the same.

Try again but set your burner up for minimum speed and don't run any
apps at all while burning, leave it alone until it pops out cooked.

Jonah

 

[Guest]

Hi John,

I did get that cdcheck and it works well. Unfortunately, under both MD5 and
CRC32 hash I am getting errors on both the DVDs I burnt. I guess my download
wasn't good.

I'm a little dissappointed in the choice of Download Manager MS is using.
First, it doesn't try to automatically reconnect after a disconnection.
Second, and more importantly given that this is a huge download, it does not
check/verify the download at all. What gives?

I'm not going to bother trying to download again. Who's to say that after
going through it all over again I won't get the same corrupt ISO?

I guess I'll order my DVD by mail and hope it doesn't take till August to
get here. Maybe it is a conspiracy after all... : )

Damn, I really wanted to play around with Vista tonight. Oh well.

there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that compares
a dvd with the hash file
(I think you can the hash on the ms site)

I have not tried it personally

let me know if this helps

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that
button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the
whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high
level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.

 

[John Jay Smith]

1) You can try www.freedownloadmanager.org perhaps?

2) you can find the iso download with torrent, when torrent finishes it
hashes and checks, and if parts are incorrect it re-downloads those parts so
it will end up with a good download.

you will need your product key of course from the MS site.

a small free torrent client is www.utorrent.com

hope this helps

Hi John,

I did get that cdcheck and it works well. Unfortunately, under both MD5
and
CRC32 hash I am getting errors on both the DVDs I burnt. I guess my
download
wasn't good.

I'm a little dissappointed in the choice of Download Manager MS is using.
First, it doesn't try to automatically reconnect after a disconnection.
Second, and more importantly given that this is a huge download, it does
not
check/verify the download at all. What gives?

I'm not going to bother trying to download again. Who's to say that after
going through it all over again I won't get the same corrupt ISO?

I guess I'll order my DVD by mail and hope it doesn't take till August to
get here. Maybe it is a conspiracy after all... : )

Damn, I really wanted to play around with Vista tonight. Oh well.

there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that
compares
a dvd with the hash file
(I think you can the hash on the ms site)

I have not tried it personally

let me know if this helps

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download
finished. I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one
dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded
the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your
local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that
button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe
mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download
was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on
DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the
whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high
level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.

 

[Travis King]

Got the same message on my computer. Sorry, but you're going to have to
re-download. I finally just gave up on the whole thing and went ahead and
ordered it. It'll cost me and come later, but then it should work unless
there's issues between Vista and my computer itself. (Not the image.)

 

[Guest]

Its probably a good idea but right now I'm turned off downloading it after my
fiasco.

I went ahead and ordered it. It was 7 bucks plus another 7 for shipping,
came to 15 something Canadian (incl. tax) but it sounds like it includes RC1
when it becomes available later this year so its not really a bad deal. I
just hope they ship it right away.

Cheers.

1) You can try www.freedownloadmanager.org perhaps?

2) you can find the iso download with torrent, when torrent finishes it
hashes and checks, and if parts are incorrect it re-downloads those parts so
it will end up with a good download.

you will need your product key of course from the MS site.

a small free torrent client is www.utorrent.com

hope this helps

Hi John,

I did get that cdcheck and it works well. Unfortunately, under both MD5
and
CRC32 hash I am getting errors on both the DVDs I burnt. I guess my
download
wasn't good.

I'm a little dissappointed in the choice of Download Manager MS is using.
First, it doesn't try to automatically reconnect after a disconnection.
Second, and more importantly given that this is a huge download, it does
not
check/verify the download at all. What gives?

I'm not going to bother trying to download again. Who's to say that after
going through it all over again I won't get the same corrupt ISO?

I guess I'll order my DVD by mail and hope it doesn't take till August to
get here. Maybe it is a conspiracy after all... : )

Damn, I really wanted to play around with Vista tonight. Oh well.

there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that
compares
a dvd with the hash file
(I think you can the hash on the ms site)

I have not tried it personally

let me know if this helps



Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download
finished. I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one
dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded
the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your
local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that
button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe
mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download
was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on
DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the
whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high
level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.

 

[Guest]

Has anyone actually gotten this thing installed? If so how avout posting a
step by step on how you did it? The rest of us could learn from it.

--
If can read this, thank a teacher. Since you are reading it in English,
thank a Soldier.

Got the same message on my computer. Sorry, but you're going to have to
re-download. I finally just gave up on the whole thing and went ahead and
ordered it. It'll cost me and come later, but then it should work unless
there's issues between Vista and my computer itself. (Not the image.)

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that
button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the
whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high
level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.

 

[Guest]

Hello

I have gotten it installed, like a lot (I am reading) I had install problems.

I loaded to a PATA (could not get the SATA to work at all, even with
drivers) with a clean format, Win XP. updated it, then copied the Windows
Vista install DVD to a folder on the hard drive and did an install from win
XP.

it loaded just fine

I could not get it to load from the DVD it would claim it could not find
install files.

now others can load and install from the DVD just fine, just not me.

so this does work and it is time consuming but it does work.

Good Luck

Jones
--
"There''''s Things I am and Things I''''m Not"

Has anyone actually gotten this thing installed? If so how avout posting a
step by step on how you did it? The rest of us could learn from it.

--
If can read this, thank a teacher. Since you are reading it in English,
thank a Soldier.

Got the same message on my computer. Sorry, but you're going to have to
re-download. I finally just gave up on the whole thing and went ahead and
ordered it. It'll cost me and come later, but then it should work unless
there's issues between Vista and my computer itself. (Not the image.)

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I
didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.

I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd
was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.

Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the
ISO file and guess what:

While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:

Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local
machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that
button
is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.

Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.

So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO
image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was
fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.

I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD
now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?

This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the
whole
thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high
level
etc..etc... Please check back later"

This is not good.