VISTA INSTALL FROM MSDN DVD FAILS WITH 80070241 error

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Yes I'm shouting:-)

There are lots of postings on what to do about the subject error, except all
the do is say to be more careful about creating media, or words to that
effect.

I'm using the July 2006 MDSN DVD.

It got substantially into the build so I assume that things are
fundamentally correct i.e. it can read from the harddrive and write to the
disk drive and then I got the subject error.

More than that I can't say because this is a native install. I wiped out the
existing system and reformatted so without a whole bunch of effort I can't
even tell you about the box, except that it was running SBS 2003
satisfactorily when i reformatted.

Suggestions please. Like who do I call to ship me new media and a wizzrd
with the correct words - xyzzy won't hack it - to make it work.
--
Regards,
Al Christoph
Senior Consultant
Three Bears Software, LLC
just right software @ just right prices @ 3bears.biz
Microsoft Certified Partner (ISV)
Coming soon: Windows Mail for Vista.
 
Hey Al--

Who you call is at the bottom of the http://support.microsoft.com site
appropriate to your area (you didn't say where you are). I think they'll
tell you the next shipping you can use is to sign up for CPP RC1 which won't
be long.

Meanwhile if I were you I'd burn slowly and I have no idea if you can
redownload from MSDN--you'd have to check with their site.

Also you didn't say if you used a CRC utility to ck the integrity of the DVD
so I'll give you one.

I understand how much time you've spent. A number of us have been through
different scenarios with different builds on different boxes.

Are you trying setup from XP desktop and do a dual boot? If you are and the
CRC checks out on the reburn, then try it from an XP restart. Your drive
letters will change as dictated by the bios, but they could be reghacked
back.

To test the ISO they sent you:

Download the CRC utility. To run the CRC test, open a command prompt and
run the utility. providing itthe name of the file (i.e. crc
c:\6.0.5383.1.1.WindowsSDK_Vista_idw.DVD.Rel.img) The CRC utility will run
two tests on the ISO: it will verify if the ISO is valid, and it will give
the AutoCRC signature for the file. The AutoCRC signature for the Windows
SDK Beta 2 ISO is 0x28434EEF. You should also confirm the size of the ISO is
correct: 1.14 GB (1,229,355,008 bytes).

If it fails any of these three tests, re-download the ISO.

I really like the direct link to it though if you right click CRC here>left
click Properties:
http://tacobell.iexbeta.com/longhorn/crc.exe

Reburn Option:

1) Burn slowly. 4X should be fine. Some of this probably varies with the
DVD writer and the media.

2) Make sure to select an ISO tab if there is one on the burning software,
and make sure to close the session on the burn.

3) Try this tweak on your Windows XP drive and burn from there:

Get to Dev 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 steps
instead of one cmd. If you're set to PMI here change to DMO and if set to
DMO change to PMI using these 5 steps:

1) Click the + in front of IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers

2) Double Click the Secondary IDE Controller

3) Click Advanced Settings

4) Under Device 1  Next to Transfer Mode choose DMA (or vise versa)>Click
OK

5) Reboot your System

6) Check your burn with a CRC utility and the links for this are below
including the direct Taco Bell link. It is very classy, sophisticated, and
very Wagner Edstrom/McCann Ericson esque for MSFT to adopt a Taco Bell url
for their public Beta 2 CRC checker. Rock on Redmond Rednecks.

Obtain CRC Utility for Vista Beta 2 Here: (The CRC utility is a way to check
the integrity of the ISO Burn which is probably where your problem
lies--it's #1 on the list):

Here's a link:

The CRC utility for Beta 2 is contained here (Scroll down to the bottom
under "Additional Information"

Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) for Beta 2 of Windows
Vista and WinFX Runtime Components
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...73-F5EA-4B7B-B022-97755838DB94&displaylang=en

Additional Information:

To verify that your download of an ISO file for the Windows SDK Beta 2 build
is not corrupt, download the CRC Utility. (Note: this is not a Microsoft
application. Use at your own risk.)

To run the CRC test, open a command prompt and run the utility. providing it
the name of the file (i.e. crc
c:\6.0.5383.1.1.WindowsSDK_Vista_idw.DVD.Rel.img) The CRC utility will run
two tests on the ISO: it will verify if the ISO is valid, and it will give
the AutoCRC signature for the file. The AutoCRC signature for the Windows
SDK Beta 2 ISO is 0x28434EEF. You should also confirm the size of the ISO is
correct: 1.14 GB (1,229,355,008 bytes).

If it fails any of these three tests, re-download the ISO.

I really like the direct link to it though if you right click CRC here>left
click Properties:
http://tacobell.iexbeta.com/longhorn/crc.exe

Good luck,

CH
 
Al said:
Yes I'm shouting:-)

There are lots of postings on what to do about the subject error, except all
the do is say to be more careful about creating media, or words to that
effect.

I'm using the July 2006 MDSN DVD.

It got substantially into the build so I assume that things are
fundamentally correct i.e. it can read from the harddrive and write to the
disk drive and then I got the subject error.

More than that I can't say because this is a native install. I wiped out the
existing system and reformatted so without a whole bunch of effort I can't
even tell you about the box, except that it was running SBS 2003
satisfactorily when i reformatted.

Suggestions please. Like who do I call to ship me new media and a wizzrd
with the correct words - xyzzy won't hack it - to make it work.
Click to expand...

You have the July 2006 CTP on DVD? I don't think I ever received this. I
downloaded mine (x86 and x64) from MSDN. You can still do that if you
have a DVD burner. To get myself started on my empty machine I first
installed the MSDN Windows 2000, and then installed the free Burncdcc
program to burn my Vista disks.

For me, the Vista installs (both x86 and x64) were the smoothest
installs ever for me, and unlike 2000 and XP, all the drivers for my new
machine (Asus A8N-E, Radeon X1300) were already loaded.

David Wilkinson
 
The solution is Mexican food and expecially consuming an extra large frozen
.... with it:-) I went out to eat. Returned sloshed. Put the DVD from MSDN
back in entered the number again and it worked.

All of you who have struggled with downloads and buring and repeated
failures have my sympathy.

Comments: I agree with the comments that David made. Except for the error
this was the most elegant install I've ever done and I've been doing them
since the mid seventies.

What especially impressed me is that it found the network with out even
telling me what it was up to.

I'm not sure if I like the cdrom key entry without the little boxes. I hope
that MS has good grounds for the change or that someone is being lazy until
the last minute. I liked the boxes. The real hero will be some one who
invents some how get them in with out having to type them more than once even
if you have try more than once to get the system installed.

Suggestion, if a flash drive is found on the system at the time the key is
required, look for and read the file KEY.TXT.

The only thing I found a bit upsetting especially given the problem with the
first attempt at reading the cd, is the repeated boots.

Now to get myself fully connected and consider video card upgrades and ...

Thanks to those who replied.

Regards,
Al Christoph
Senior Consultant
Three Bears Software, LLC
just right software @ just right prices @ 3bears.biz
Microsoft Certified Partner (ISV)
Coming soon: Windows Mail for Vista.
 
The saga continues.
1. Down loaded the August CPT release from MSDN.
2. Ran the hash checks on it using EF Commander. (A nifty tool, but its bug
the user to buy now technique is unspeakably rude.)
3. Tried upgrading running setup within Vista. No matter what I did i got
can't continue file is corrupted or missing etc. The error number was
80070247. Same as with the July MSDN issued cd-rom. (I used ISOBuster to
break things out.)
4. Stuck my nick out and did an over write install using the DVD I had burnt
from a cold start boot. It worked wonderfully. The most amaing part is that
it took no time at all to load the files. Apparently it found what it needed
on my hard drive somewhere and somehow. MOST IMPRESSIVE Microsoft.

And I'm a happy camper because WebMail appears to be working. The only thing
it ever did right on the July release was download newsgroup headers. (See
vista.mail for my gripes on that subject.)

I'm a very happy camper this evening.

Now if I could only understand how Share Point Services mungs up access to
existing stuff in the Default Web Site ... if I could only get VSTSFS
running ... if I could make up my mind what to do with the two PC's that are
in pieces one of which is my backup enterprise server ... if I could find
the time to take care of ...

Regards,
Al Christoph
 
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