Problem downloading vista x64 iso to vista x86 installation

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Guest

I haven't seen this anywhere, so either no one else is having a problem, or
no one else has tried it. Currently 5 times so far i have tried to download
the 64bit version iso. 2 times using direct download, and 3 times using the
akaida manager. What is strange is that the download process seems to run
normally.. I wait about 5 hours watching the meter, the download completes,
and then I can't find the file. I spent 3 hours last night just searching the
harddrive for any temp file or anything. The only thing I found was a link
for the location where i had told it to save, which was empty, and clicking
on the link brings up the file not found dialog.

Is there something in particular that windows defender does not like
about iso files. Is disk quota set up by default killing the file copy from
temp and then deleting the temp file on downloader close? Could there be
something inherint in indexing that is not listing this file, and thus not
making it available to the system?

All i can say is that i really mis searching by file size.
 
G

Guest

exact same problem except 10 hours meter watching,4hours searching ,reason
for downloading was/is running x86 ver on my targa laptop which uses a mobile
amd athlon64 3000+ and performance check gives my pc a rating of 1 which i
suspect is down to the processor as all other checks range from 3 to5.4 tried
installing the driver for x64 processor but gives an error as driver not able
to run on 32bit o/s would appreciate any advice on this as quite impressed
with beta 2 but not doing it justice with my processor not running to full
potential
 
G

Guest

exact same problem except 10 hours meter watching,4hours searching ,reason
for downloading was/is running x86 ver on my targa laptop which uses a mobile
amd athlon64 3000+ and performance check gives my pc a rating of 1 which i
suspect is down to the processor as all other checks range from 3 to5.4 tried
installing the driver for x64 processor but gives an error as driver not able
to run on 32bit o/s would appreciate any advice on this as quite impressed
with beta 2 but not doing it justice with my processor not running to full
potential .
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

There should be no problem downloading Vista x64 on a XP x86 system. The
same with burning the dvd. What you cannot do is install Vista x64 from the
XP x86 desktop (you can from the XP x64 desktop, however).

To install Vista x64 on a 64-bit capable system running XP x86 you must boot
the computer with the dvd.
 
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Guest

You missed my header, I was trying to download this file from within VISTA
x86 not xp. My problem ended up being a permissions problem, which I worked
around by running internet explorer as administrator. Burned it thru vista
this morning before work using nero burning rom 6.6 . The suggestion of
deactivating the option to check file downloads to see if they are signed or
not, did not work.
 
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wgd

You missed my header, I was trying to download this file from within VISTA
x86 not xp. My problem ended up being a permissions problem, which I worked
around by running internet explorer as administrator. Burned it thru vista
this morning before work using nero burning rom 6.6 . The suggestion of
deactivating the option to check file downloads to see if they are signed or
not, did not work.
I had the exact same problem trying to download the X64 version from X86
Vista Beta 2. Downloaded with no problem but I never could find the file.
I was only able to see it by attempting a second download and deleting it
in the download manager save dialog box.

Glad you figured out the problem. Maybe I'll download it again just to
have the X64 version available. Not sure I'll install it because of less
driver availability. Plus the fact that the X86 version is running great
on my hardware and the X64 version would provide no real additional
benefit.
 

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