Vista help

[WARREN MCKEEBY]

Hi,
I downloaded Vista from the microsoft web site. It was a image/iso file.
I then used nero to burn it to a cd-rom. ThenI typed in the run
box-E:/SETUP.EXE.
Then on my screen I received a error-Not a vaild win 32 application.
How can I correct this?
Do I have a bad iso/image file? If so where can I download a good copy or
get it on a DVD disk?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Charlie Drake]

Hi,
I downloaded Vista from the microsoft web site. It was a image/iso file.
I then used nero to burn it to a cd-rom. ThenI typed in the run
box-E:/SETUP.EXE.
Then on my screen I received a error-Not a vaild win 32 application.
How can I correct this?
Do I have a bad iso/image file? If so where can I download a good copy or
get it on a DVD disk?
Thanks in advance.

Have you downloaded Vista x64? if you have and you want an 64 bit OS
then boot to the DVD and run install from there. If you don't want 64
bit OS go and d/l the Vista x86 version form MS.

Charlie

 

[Chad Harris]

If you wanted to pay for shipping and wait a variable amount of time you can
get it shipped:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Beta 2 is now not the newest build although people who have the newest build
(5456.5) seem to be very coy about telling you in here or telling you what
***if anything has been fixed or improved*** (but it's been plastered all
over the web)--the month to month builds remind people that the Tin Ear
mentality is alive and well at Redmond--where new builds are given to the
hundreds of whiny babies in adult bodies who ask for a new build the second
the next build is relesed because they like the aphrodisiac feel of getting
the latest whether anything is fixed or features are improved or not:

Vista 5456.5 First Look
http://www.pro-networks.org/


You have been extremely murky about how you did this--***are you trying to
dual boot***? I'd start over and make sure that when you use Nero Warren
you do the burn from XP so that the Vista setup will be on the XP desktop
and you will get the chance if you are trying to dual boot to direct Vista
to the space you have cleared for it. If you are dual booting, XP remains
on it's current drive on you PC (probably C:\) and you want to be able to
dual boot Vista on one of your other drives or partitions. You will be able
to return to your XP boot via a shortcut easily, but know that doing so will
wipe out your Vista restore points so you will have to recreate one. The
shortcut to access files and folders from the Vista desktop is C:\Documents
and Settings\XP User Profile\Desktop and then drag the shortcut from the top
of that explorer folder when it pops up.

Pay attention to these details and you should have no trouble burining the
ISO and dual booting if you want to after that:

I would add to these directions, that on Nero 6 and above you can click on
Iso and streamline the steps a bit:

Steps to Burn Iso:
http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm#Nero Burning ROM

Alternative Dual Boot Directions with Screen Shots:
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/...-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php

*How To Burn the DVD and Dual Boot Vista From Windows XP*

1) If or when you have the dual boot in place in the future, you may want to
save or backup whatever you files/folders, shortcuts you created on the
previous Vista boot so you won't have to go after them again (right now
there is no previousVista boot for you) but there will be the next time
around. You'll able to do that with Vista's backup or just burn to your DVD
burner (Vista also has native DVD burning software).

2) If in the future you have XP on one boot and Vista on the other, boot
into XP and type diskmgmt.msc in the run box and right click the drive where
your current Vista is so that you clean it to put on the future Vista. There
are lots of ways to format, but this one is quick and easy and it works.

3) Open up Nero Burning Rom, One of the selections in Nero on your All
Programs menu. You will drag the mouse accross the Nero Ultra entry in All
Programs first. If you have Nero 6X and 7, (I can't remember how it was in
5) you will have two dialogue boxes pop up when you click Nero Burning Rom.
The one facing you will say "New Compilation." The only thing you have to
click on that is ISO. The other checkboxes and pulldowns don't need to be
touched to burn the Vista Iso.

Then you'll find a new button on the Upper Right. Click it. Make
absolutely sure when given the option to Close the DVD burning session you
do this so that it will be bootable. Burn at a slow speed--this is an
Operating System Iso so use 8X or even 4X. You don't need to burn any more
slowly and a DVD + gives you an edge in burning accuracy. It's not going
to take that long.

4) Make sure you close the session.

5) There are times when people are unsuccessful at burning the Iso and there
is one more tip I use and it's outlined here:

Get to Device Manager by typing devmgmt.msc in run/win key + pause break or
Rt.click My Computer>Prop>hardware tab>Device Manager if you like 5
stepsinstead of one cmd. If you're set to PMI here change to DMO and if set
toDMO change to PMI:

a.. Click the + in front of IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
a.. Double Click the Secondary IDE Controller
a.. Click Advanced Settings
a.. Under Device 1  Next to Transfer Mode choose DMA (or vise versa)
a.. Click OK
a.. Reboot your System

6) After you burn the Iso, while you are in XP, the setup for Vista will pop
up on your screen.

7) CRC checking utilities for accuracy of the burn are available on the web.

8) On a dual boot you'll get a black and white screen that gives you
choices:

Good luck,

CH

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

After the download you should use "burn image to disc". You should start
the setup by booting the computer with the dvd and choosing an empty
partition or drive for installation. Do NOT install over your present XP
unless it is on a test machine. You may not be able to get XP back if you
do.

 

[Chad Harris]

I sure agree with Colin DO NOT install "over" your present XP. Never
install one Windows OS over another. Also since to date, MSFT has done
such a poor job of solving the multiple issues that have been reported by
testers with ***upgrades from XP to Vista*** which their prime
motivation --money-- will motivate them to solve by RTM time (hopefully,
maybe or maybe not) whenever that actually happens. There is serious
discussion that Vista could become "another ME" since a number of its major
features are currently broken in the latest build, and if a lot of elements
of this OS aren't addressed I think that's reasonable. It's Beta a little
more than half way to the projeted and shaky RTM dates, but will it ship as
a multi-flawed Beta is the question?

I strongly recommend a dual boot if you don't have a spare machine or hard
drive. I was very clearto recommend burning the DVD FROM XP but not
installing over XP.

I would never advocate a "dirty install" of one Windows Operating system
over another. You're asking for scrambled mangled files and reg entries
then. No where in my directions to burn or dual boot is an install of Vista
advocated over XP or even an upgrade of XP to Vista given MSFT's failure to
get an upgrade scenario into what most people would consider reasonable
shape. You should do a clean install of Vista to wherever you have made
adequate space, but if you need to dual boot, burning from XP and running
the Vista setup from the XP desktop which is in no way installing over XP
since Vista setup has given you an option to direct Vista wherever you want
in any build to date.

I have directions for burning, for dual booting, and an alternative set of
directions for dual booting with screenshots in them on my post. I would
welcome any additional aids to burning or dual booting any time but they
have made it easy for me to do.

CH

 

[Todd]

Before you dual boot Vista on an XP system, make sure that you know how the
XP boot works, and how to restore it. The Vista install will overwrite the
XP boot manager, and it will do it on the XP partition. So reformating the
Vista partition is not enough to get rid of all of the Vista installation.

If you have two hard drives, you can disconnect the XP hard drive before
installing Vista, and use the BIOS to select which hard drive to boot from.
This will leave your XP partition/drive unmodified by Vista, and therefore
you will not have anything to clean up.

Todd

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Vista will write the boot configuration store on the XP root, but it does
not follow that it will overwrite the XP boot manager.

 

[Chad Harris]

Todd--

My experience has been exactly what Colin has said. I am sure that if you
perform Vista setup *from XP* that you are not overwriting the XP boot
manager. I would like to say what the consequences of overwriting the XP
boot manager would be precisely. I'm not near as up to speed on BCDedit as
I should be. I haven't read enough and worked with it enough but I have
everything I could get hold of from MSFT and other places on it. From what
I'm seeing though, I think you can document quickly for yourself that
running Vista setup *from XP* is not overwriting the XP boot manager.

Some of the others Colin, Rick, Andre, Mike and seveal other people might
have a good grip on the Boot Configuration Data Editor and its many many
(esoteric to me rightn now) switches that I'm looking at on the cmd prompt.
I think you would see that both boot managers are coexisting unless you have
one dual boot manager. Someone might want to clarify this.

I have been using the Diskmgmt.msc tool to format my Vista driver for a new
build--and I have also let some files be gathered into Windows.old folders
but I prefer to be on the safe side to save any files or folders I want
saved by copying them onto another drive and then bringing them back for to
my next Vista build's desktop. That way the "work" or files I accumulated
on the last Vista stick around for use on the next one--I either copy them
back to the new Vista or just access them where I put them via the file
path--depending on where I want them.

CH

CH