Then you burn all the files and folders at once. These discs play in just about any computer, including Macs and older PCs. You can drag files and folders onto it, move icons around on it, rename them, and so on. The downside is that discs you burn this way generally work only in Windows XP and Windows Vista computers. If you want to burn a music CD, skip ahead to Chapter 7.
Otherwise, continue to step 2. Figure First, you can scurry about your hard drive, locating the files and folders you want on the CD. Second, you can highlight the files and folders you want burned onto the CD. Finally, you can explore your hard drive. In other words, you need plenty of disk space before you begin burning a CD—at least double the size of the CD files themselves. Cookie Settings Accept All.
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Try the alternative link if you get file not found, it may take a few goes but comes in eventually. Thank you for your quick reply, greatly appreciated. I have been trying for about 4 hours now and it is keep coming in as file not found. For some reasons there is no alternative link to Boot. WIM file or I might not be looking it right.
The alternate link for install. Does anyone know what is wrong and where else can I download this files? Thank you very much!
We will have a think about uploading the files ourselves as the Microsoft official sources are so unreliable. Is there an issue with Digital River? The log on the download manager says that it keeps trying to connect and does so successfully but then says unknown network error and tries again. Any help would be appreciated. I note that the download links no longer seem to work — is there an issue with the files? Thanks for that.
Hello to all! This would also pertain to all those others out there with the same situation I have regardless of which operating system they have XP, Vista, 7, etc desktop or laptop. Hi Ed and thanks for your words.
Home Premium. Hello and Thankyou so much for clarifying my concerns and the super fast response after posting here on your site…Exactly the answer I was looking for!!! For example, on my HP laptop that has an XP operating system? Had been contemplating for some time now about formatting the laptop hard drive, upgrading to a clean OS installation and passing it onto my daughter s for homework and such instead of purchasing a new laptop.
So can you do it and would it work? Most Certainly. Is it legit? Just wanted to say thanks for all the help and advise. Thanks again, Tim. Thanks for all the work you put into this tutorial.
Microsoft was tinkering with the download service Digital River as opposed to the actual files themselves. I burned the disk successfully. From vista disk, ran setup. Any ideas? I can always come back and install linux later if I want it badly enough. Would just like to get vista running at some level. Thanks for the reply. That worked. Hashes matched perfectly. Did a clean install from the iso disk.
At the risk of going to the well too often…. Tried reinstalling drivers for all devices, no soap. I downloaded vista sp2 on another computer, carried it to my laptop and it installed successfully. Thanks, Tim. That just means the drivers for your computer are not present on the Vista install disk, they might get picked up when you check for updates. Use 3DPNet 3dpchip. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Any help would be so much appreciated!
Wim and Install. Should I try a USB drive instead? Verify that the installation source is valid, and restart the installation. Can I give any product key compatible? You need to enter a valid Vista key from your computer sticker.
Thank you!! Was able to install hard drive and load Vista 32!! Very good instructions! Off to do the Service pack 2 now! You could always try extracting the WIM with an archiver like 7-Zip and see if it unpacks successfully. In regards to imgburn — if you download it from Ninite. I use that site almost daily. That article has 10 tools which can help you install Vista from USB. Thanx for the info. Gotta find a better way than imgburn.
What a crummy program and website. I ended up downloading from CNET but had to do a custom install all the way or it wanted to keep loading junk programs. I feel sorry for the person who just did a regular install and ended up with all kinds of junk programs on their PC. Thank you so much for this easy-to-follow guide!! It just saved a laptop that was refusing to boot even from the original recovery disks I made, and shutting itself off in protest.
Sadly Microsoft keep playing around with their files on Digital River, they keep coming and going and are there one minute, gone the next, back again the next. I can only suggest anyone looking to get these files to keep trying. Microsoft really needs to get it together.
My hard drive died and old PATA drive. I originally upgraded from 98 to XP to Vista to Win7. Unfortunately, the only original non-upgrade I have is 98SE. Seems like MS wants to force me to do it the illegal way.
Really Really frustrating!!! Go to bios, switch from ide to raid, might be couple more settings to play with. Should get you rolling. Does anyone have the checksum value for the 64 bit ISO one that works, of course? Checksum — yes Verify burn — yes Start with all new downloads each time — yes Do all the steps as provided in the post — yes Do everything the same way as the successful 32 bit disk I created — yes.
Tried downloading the install. I had to download the Install. You rock! March — I just purchased a 2nd hand HP Elitebook p via Ebay to simply use as a monitor for a solar system. Advertised that Vista Business was the operating system. Luckily OEM label was intact on the bottom. Took me pretty much the entire day to find your blog, however, it was worth it. Created 64 bit install disk that did the business as promised. I now have a functional, although dated lap top as opposed to a paper weight.
Cheers, Brett. Thanks for the site. Had a customer with a damaged HP laptop HD. I just copied the expanded install files over the network to the laptop.
Thanks again. Im sure I will use this again in the future. An excellent guide. Worked fine. Thank you so much for that. It got me out of a bind. The recovery partition on my clients laptop was corrupted and we had no OEM Vista discs. Had license key issues with the retail copy I had. This did the trick. Thanks again! I bought an Acer laptop years ago, being a Linux user I brought it home and promptly wiped out Vista and installed Xubuntu on it. I feel sorry for him giving him Vista, but he has a fresh copy installed.
The instructions worked under wine quite nicely. Thanks for this guide…! My foster mum had a terribly infected XP system, but there was a Home Premium key on the machine, I followed the guide. Only… updating this little machine… takes AGES!
This worked perfectly for me! I had lost the supplied boot disk that came with the computer. The newly made restore disk worked like a charm and she was thrilled to have her computer back. Thank you so much Raymond. CC for this detailed yet easy to follow tutorial. Thanks for this information, it is very useful!
Wim amd boot. All you have to do is make sure the 3 files you download are in the same folder when you run the. I downloaded the Vista 32 bit and successfully created an installation disk. I was using my 64 bit Windows 7 computer to do this. Can someone please tell me if they know for sure why vista is the only image all this work must be done with? Why is windows 7 and windows 8 RTM a simple iso and no crap needed but vista must be built?
After a bit of reading, it seems they wanted to allow people to download Vista while not needing a DVD burner or knowledge of how to burn ISO files. This is obviously all fine but restricts the user to only installing from another installed Windows, whereas it needs to be converted into an ISO to perform a clean install. They never officially released an ISO download to the public. My problem is resolved, Windows XP is fine and stable OS, but it does have it limits, which include file size limits.
I switched over to my Windows 7 64bit computer downloaded the files needed along with Hash Generator and the burner program you recommended. Can not extract Windows Vista Setup to your hard drive. I used Hash Generator to check the install. With the 32bit Download, I did not have this problem, my problem of course was my 32 bit product key number was not activating the 64bit version of Vista. So I am stumped ATM.
Have you downloaded ALL 3 files for Vista bit? I can recreate that error by simply renaming install. You need a blank standard 4. Copy the link for the Install. Wim on the download page and you should have better luck getting the complete file.
Alright, so I followed all the instructions, then put the disk into my computer.. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the installation. Error code:0x Edit: I also tried redownloading it and making a different disk. Got the same error. Then I tried making a USB bootable with a fresh download, and still the same error. That error is quite infamous and there are several possible solutions.
To verify you have the full and verified install. Make sure they match. Thanks so much! This is exactly what I needed!
Another satisfied customer great job on the write up could not have been clearer even though I managed to screw up one step but read more carefully and it worked a treat.
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