How to Install from Downloaded ISO?????

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Downloaded RC-1 ISO; burned to DVD-R with new HP notebook. DVD doesn't launch
and install nor autoplay. Instead Sonic DVD burner launches, only wants to
burn new DVD, not install RC-1 on XP-Home. What should I do to install RC-1??
Thanks!!!
 
Hi,

Did you copy the file to DVD or did you use a burning program to create a
DVD from an image file? The latter is the way it needs to be done to create
a bootable installation disk, check your DVD burning software for the
appropriate means of doing this, and use the slowest burning speed allowed.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Just a guess, but you copied the file to a DVD, instead of "burning an
image" to a DVD. Search the newsgroups, search Google, you'll see.
 
Hi,

Did you copy the file to DVD or did you use a burning program to create a
DVD from an image file? The latter is the way it needs to be done to create
a bootable installation disk, check your DVD burning software for the
appropriate means of doing this, and use the slowest burning speed allowed.
Click to expand...

Someone really should have invented a "self-burning" ISO, kind of like
self-extracting zipfiles, for these folks.
 
ISO files are like zip files... they contain an "image" of the
CD/DVD/Whatever, and as such, need to be handled differently than when one
burns "regular" files to a DVD. If you burn an ISO file like a data file,
then you have a DVD containing the ISO file, which in and of itself is of no
use for installing Vista.

For example, if I want to burn an ISO to CD/DVD, in Roxio 5 I would select
"File | Record CD from CD Image" and in the resultant dlg box, I'd select
Files of type: ISO. Browse to the source ISO file and hit the OK button.
That will take the ISO file and expand/unzip, pick a term, the files
contained in the ISO file into a useable, bootable, Vista install CD.

Hope that helps...

Lang
 
All responders --

I used Sonic DigitalMedia Plus Ver 7 to burn the ISO to DVD-R. Computer
could not read ISO. (Sonic owns Roxio, now.) I used the Data Disc function.
The Copy function is to burn an image to disc, but there is no ability to
choose "ISO". The image from the download is already an ISO, but Win XP Home
alone does not "unzip" it into anything that looks like a bootable disc. I'll
try the copy function; DVDs are cheap. Thanks for inputs.
Frank
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You cannot just copy the .ISO to a DVD and expect it to run. It must be
"expanded" to a zillion little files on the CD (I also tried the copy .ISO to
DVD, then insert the DVD and nothing happened. Microsoft's download
instructions suck!!!! But I love Vista. Sorry Bill, just needed to vent a
little). Here is what to do: in Windows Explorer right -click on the .ISO
file. If you have CD burner S/W installed such as Roxio, you will see a menu
choice "Burn to CD". You don't get that on non-ISO files. Select that
choice. You should see your Roxio software appear without any files in the
"download" area. Select "Burn" and the .ISO should now be written to the DVD
in expanded form.

For more info, see http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm

If you don't see the Roxio S/W when you select "Burn to CD" but the DVD
drive starts blinking, it is NOT copying!!! Try again until the S/W pops up.
 
Hi,

Copy as data or copy to disk is not going to work, you need to burn the file
as an image. See if there is a DVD copy function, that may allow you to burn
the disk from an image file.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
If you software doesn't have the option to burn an .iso file, try changing
the extension to .img or maybe even whatever you have available for a
selection.

Clark
 
Did you copy the file to DVD or did you use a burning program to create a
Someone really should have invented a "self-burning" ISO, kind of like
self-extracting zipfiles, for these folks.
Click to expand...

Not to be condescending, but if this is the sort of thing "these folks"
need, they shouldn't be beta testing OSes--they'll only run into much more
serious issues with much more convoluted solutions.
 
Well, maybe beta testing is not for the general public, but this is RC1, and
Microsoft will be releasing it soon to normal folks, not just beta testers.
This problem is one that will not happen if software is purchased normally,
so the folks that are not experienced enough to know how to burn an image
file might be just what is needed to make sure the final release is "Bug
Free" or at least user friendly. After all, the hard core beta testers
should have found all the problems by now. ;-)

Clark
 
This problem is one that will not happen if software is purchased
normally, so the folks that are not experienced enough to know how to burn
an image file might be just what is needed to make sure the final release
is "Bug Free" or at least user friendly.
Click to expand...

The "folks that are not experienced enough to know how to burn an image
file" should still not install an RC. I'm very much against making it
easier for people to screw up their systems with something that won't be
supported by MS a few months after Vista RTMs.
After all, the hard core beta testers should have found all the problems
by now. ;-)
Click to expand...

....and you know perfectly well this is not the case, which is why you had to
add that smiley. Thanks for furthering my point. ;-)
 
I agree. The Get Ready/Customer Preview Program page defines the skills
needed for customers wanting to preview Vista and experience installing and
configuring operating systems is certainly listed. Clearly burning an
operating system disc is part of all of that. Besides, alternatives for
installing Vista without endangering the existing system exist such as VPC,
Virtual Server, Parallels Workstation, VMWare, and so on, and the dvd's can
be ordered sent in the mail. There simply is no need these days to be a
disc burning expert or trash a system just to get a look at Vista a few
months ahead of time.
 
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