If you .iso doesn't work...

I'm the village idiot when it comes to these things and these are not
original ideas, just telling of my experience with the .iso image in case it
saves someone some grief:

I downloaded the Vista beta 2 .iso and burned a DVD using Roxio Easy CD
Creator (destroyer?) 8. I had no luck. I burned about 7 DVD's, and 3 of
them showed no errors with Roxio's own integrity checker (buried in there,
but it's there). Got into the install process and kept coming up with error
80070241 during the file copying process from DVD to CD; usually about 1/3
of the way through that step.

Four of the Roxio DVD's did show errors, about 1/3 of the way through the
DVD (surprise). Errors shown or not through Roxio, install failed with the
same code on all the DVD's (thank goodness for DVD/CD shredders).

Roxio would NOT let me burn at 1x or 2x; slowest I could get was 4x, perhaps
part (!) of the problem. So I downloaded Cheetah; some of it's interface
didn't seem quite right, but anyway, it burned the DVD "evidently" at 1x
speed and said "write finished" in small letters. I had a good feeling
about this since it was recommended to try this (thanks to the helpful post)
and popped it in, installed through XP to my "D" drive (thanks to yet
another helpful post). Next time I looked, file copy was 80% done and I had
not previously gotten beyond 30 something percent. WOW! The install went
very smoothly from that point (much better than an XP install with "device
discoveries" stepping on each other). And then... it worked!

Many, many thanks to MVP's and posters for the great posts. I'd get rid of
Roxio but in truth it does well for what I usually do ... but never
attempted an .iso before. The advice to use Cheetah, and probably on older
versions of Roxio, and most likely Nero, using a slow write will save a lot
of frustration.

My biggest (duh) question is that of the F6 trick; a fresh install of XP
home won't work on my Sony with SATA drives - without the XP F6 trick (which
gets iastor.sys and it's .inf included in the install, read from a floppy
courtesy an Intel download). However, Vista seemed uninterested, when given
the opportunity a checkmark saying to hide incompatible drivers hid all the
drivers for the SATA and RAID drivers on my disc... so I didn't bother...
and there were no problems. I'm sure that makes perfect sense, just not to
me

The dual boot works very well, and I'm quietly wondering about what has now
been written to my MBR <shudder>

Thanks again - Bill Halvorsen

"none" <none@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:OGSI6GAjGHA.4284@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> I'm the village idiot when it comes to these things and these are not
> original ideas, just telling of my experience with the .iso image in case
> it saves someone some grief:
>
> I downloaded the Vista beta 2 .iso and burned a DVD using Roxio Easy CD
> Creator (destroyer?) 8. I had no luck. I burned about 7 DVD's, and 3 of
> them showed no errors with Roxio's own integrity checker (buried in there,
> but it's there). Got into the install process and kept coming up with
> error 80070241 during the file copying process from DVD to CD; usually
> about 1/3 of the way through that step.
>
> Four of the Roxio DVD's did show errors, about 1/3 of the way through the
> DVD (surprise). Errors shown or not through Roxio, install failed with
> the same code on all the DVD's (thank goodness for DVD/CD shredders).
>
> Roxio would NOT let me burn at 1x or 2x; slowest I could get was 4x,
> perhaps part (!) of the problem. So I downloaded Cheetah; some of it's
> interface didn't seem quite right, but anyway, it burned the DVD
> "evidently" at 1x speed and said "write finished" in small letters. I had
> a good feeling about this since it was recommended to try this (thanks to
> the helpful post) and popped it in, installed through XP to my "D" drive
> (thanks to yet another helpful post). Next time I looked, file copy was
> 80% done and I had not previously gotten beyond 30 something percent.
> WOW! The install went very smoothly from that point (much better than an
> XP install with "device discoveries" stepping on each other). And then...
> it worked!
>
> Many, many thanks to MVP's and posters for the great posts. I'd get rid
> of Roxio but in truth it does well for what I usually do ... but never
> attempted an .iso before. The advice to use Cheetah, and probably on
> older versions of Roxio, and most likely Nero, using a slow write will
> save a lot of frustration.
>
> My biggest (duh) question is that of the F6 trick; a fresh install of XP
> home won't work on my Sony with SATA drives - without the XP F6 trick
> (which gets iastor.sys and it's .inf included in the install, read from a
> floppy courtesy an Intel download). However, Vista seemed uninterested,
> when given the opportunity a checkmark saying to hide incompatible drivers
> hid all the drivers for the SATA and RAID drivers on my disc... so I
> didn't bother... and there were no problems. I'm sure that makes perfect
> sense, just not to me
>
> The dual boot works very well, and I'm quietly wondering about what has
> now been written to my MBR <shudder>
>
> Thanks again - Bill Halvorsen
>

The trouble that a lot of people have is they just burn it as data. Look at
what's on the DVD. If you see the ISO file you did the wrong thing. You
have to figure out how to burn a disk image.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
"Anyone who prefers security over freedom deserves neither."