Wont Work!

[Guest]

When I popped the DVD+R into my DVD drive, I went to My Computer and clicked
on the drive. The file was called "LB2Cx_FRE_EN_DVD". I clicked on that file
and a message popped up saying "This Is Not a Valid Win32 Application". What
does this mean?

 

[Trevor]

Try opening setup.exe on the Disk.

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

That means that you downloaded the 64-bit version of Vista. It will not run
in Windows XP x86, because a 32-bit operating system can not do anything
with a 64-bit application. You can not upgrade to x64. You must boot from
the DVD and then, during the installation process, tell it to install on the
NTFS partition that I am sure you have made, right after backing up your
files. If you don't have a separate partition or separate hard drive (and
no, an external will not work either) then it will write over your current
operating system and there is no way to unwind that back to XP. Are you
sure you are ready for this?


When I popped the DVD+R into my DVD drive, I went to My Computer and clicked
on the drive. The file was called "LB2Cx_FRE_EN_DVD". I clicked on that file
and a message popped up saying "This Is Not a Valid Win32 Application". What
does this mean?

 

[Jane C]

It means you have downloaded the x64 version of Vista. The only way to
install the x64 version is to boot from the DVD. You cannot install it from
XP.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

At least not from XP x86. You can from XP x64.

It means you have downloaded the x64 version of Vista. The only way to
install the x64 version is to boot from the DVD. You cannot install it
from XP.

 

[Tom Scales]

Really? That contradicts everything I've read here for the last three weeks.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

If you are getting that error message you probably have downloaded the x64
version of Vista. What you need is the x86 version which is the 32 bit
version.

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[MICHAEL]

At least not from XP x86. You can from XP x64.

I believe that you can. I think booting from the DVD
is better. But, I'm quite sure you can run the install from
WinXP.


-Michael

 

[MICHAEL]

At least not from XP x86. You can from XP x64.

Oh, I see what you're saying. Duh!

 

[Guest]

I have a Compaq Presario R4000 AthlonXP 64 processor, 512 MB RAM, 60 Gig HD,
with a cd-rw/dvd combo drive that won't doot this DVD. I tried it on my 32
bit system and it boots off the disc. I agree with CaffieneAddict, "Won't
Work!" Not unless you can give me a solution to this dilemna.

 

[R.U. Zerious]

Is the Compaq configured to boot from the DVD drive (in the BIOS)? If not,
that explains it.

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

Could be a bad ISO. Could be a bad burn. Could be the media is not
recognized (+R instead of -R, for example). Could be something really
simple, like you transferred the file to a DVD instead of burning the ISO
image. Could be many things.

 

[Guest]

It was something really simple. I ended up booting off an external usb DVD
drive, and the machine booted fine. I tried it with firewire the second go
around, but that did not work. Maybe my internal combo drive doesn't like
the disk, but I can boot off it using the **USB** external DVD drive.