Hands up all those who installed Vista from a CD..........

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Nero

Anyone?
seems like a lot of people say they installed from a cd............
cannot be done.
From MS Vista is on a DVD
 
Who cares? Little, minor technical information. You can always download if
you have the mean, like 1.5M or more downstream, T3, SOHO, etc. Do you have
money?

Watis
 
Who cares? Little, minor technical information. You can always download if
you have the mean, like 1.5M or more downstream, T3, SOHO, etc. Do you have
money?

Watis
 
Nero,

People are simply breaking the ISO up into smaller pieces to fit onto CD's.
I have no clue why, as that is a heck of a lot of CD's! DVD drives are DIRT
cheap, I just picked up a DVD burner with Lightscribe for 32 USD from NewEgg
with free shipping...

Bill F.
 
Nero said:
Anyone?
seems like a lot of people say they installed from a cd............
cannot be done.
From MS Vista is on a DVD
Click to expand...
You can also download Vista from Connect in CD format ( 5 or 6 cd's from
memory)

Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz
 
You don't even need one, although that would certainly be ideal.

I used Daemon Tools to install Vista from an XP box and performed a clean
install.

Sir_Timbit
 
Pretty much the same here.. I extracted the ISO to a directory on my system
called <CABS> pretty much the way i have installed every windows OS since wfw
3.11 way back when.. saved the cd shuffle hassle from previous years, tho
starting with windows xp not very required. Does provide easy access to a non
corrupted ntldr and etc. in case of system failure.
 
How the hell can you do a clean install if the only way is to boot from a
dvd?
You cannot boot into windows and do a clean install.
 
Actually, you can boot into Windows, run the Vista install DVD from your
existing desktop and do a clean install by choosing the custom install
option and installing to a different partition ;-) Same applies for
mounting the image with Daemon Tools. I've done it both ways :-)
 
I had an unused 15 G partition on my HD, running XP Pro normally.

I booted from my DVD with RC2 and installed in the unused partition - worked
like a charm.

So, you can boot from the DVD and do a nice clean install.

R.
 
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