Microsoft DVD does not install

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I ordered and received the bootable beta DVD from Microsoft but on inserting
the DVD in the drive, a window pops up with only a single 1 KB text file
which says thats the CD is of the UDF format and the operating system needs
to be UDF enabled. Though the size of the DVD shows as 3.1GB but no other
file can be seen on the DVD.
I tried to install the same DVD by booting up but the DVD was not recognized
and the same problem persisted after the system booted into Windows XP.
Any solutions?
 
The first part occurred because while you are in
Windows there is no native support for the UDF
file system used on DVD's.

When you say "not recognized" the question is
the DVD drive set as the default boot device?
It will only boot from the DVD if the optical
drive is set as the 1st boot device in the
computer BIOS, or if you have the option of
pressing either F8 or F11, or some other option,
to go to a Boot Menu and selecting the optical
drive from there to boot from.
 
probably not the right place to ask and ill await the flames..... but if xp
has no native support for udf (dvd's) then how is it that dvd roms have been
mainstream for a long time now... software comes distributed on dvd's quite
regularly and people are able to use them. My copy of XP seems to like dvd's
straight out of the box from memory although i could be wrong...(XP Pro - no
service packs) I have not installed any special software to be able to read
them, and it was only after i added a burner that i bothered to install
software that could write them.

Is this a possible symptom of a dvdrom in a cdrom drive (never actually
tried it although i am sure that it would not work at all... and im sure that
anyone who ordered the vista beta from M$ would actually know the difference
anyway)

Are you running XP home or pro, have you got SP2 installed?
Do you have any other software on dvd that works? What happens when you put
a video dvd in your drive under windows?

As far as not recognising it at boot, as said below the system will only
recognise it as a boot drive if told to do so in the bios. You may have to
enter the bios in order to do this.
 
thanks for the feedback, the bios is set to recognize the dvd at boot up but
no such luck. If xp pro sp2 does not support udf, what is the workaround. I
tried running the dvd in my laptop with only xp and no other software
installed and it worked great there. I guess the offending softwares could
either be norton internet security 2006 or nero 7. Still dont want to format
the desktop to reload the vista beta, any further suggestions
 
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