Installing Vista Beta 1 (x86) without DVD media
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversI know, I know - Everyone should have a DVD burner these days... but I don't. Here's a rough guide on getting Vista Beta 1 (x86) installed without the use of DVD media. I am not responsible for lost partitions, data, etc!
- Pre-partitioned drive with (1) >8GB NTFS partition and (1) >2GB NTFS partition
- Vista Beta 1 ISO image (untouched)
- (1) Blank CD-R/CD-RW Disc
Instructions:
- Create a temporary folder on your secondary NTFS partition (D:\ henceforth) labeled VISTA_TMP
- Extract Vista ISO image (e.g. with WinRAR) into temporary directory.
- Delete DRIVERS\, DOCS\, SUPPORT\ folders.
- Delete SOURCES\INSTALL.WIM image.
- Extract the boot sector from original ISO image and save in temporary location (e.g. Desktop)
- Create an ISO with the contents of the temporary folder and import the boot sector. The title of this ISO is irrelevant.
- Burn the ISO image to CD-R/CD-RW media.
- Empty but do not delete the temporary folder.
- Create a SOURCES\ folder inside the temporary folder.
- Re-extract INSTALL.WIM and BOOT.WIM into newly created SOURCES\ folder.
- Boot machine off of newly created Vista Preinstallation Environment CD, holding the CTRL key once the old Longhorn logo appears.
- Within' the command prompt, execute: xcopy X:\ D:\VISTA_TMP. NOTE: X:\ in the command above is not to be changed, it's the temporary RAM disk!
- After the copy process finishes, execute: D:\VISTA_TMP\SETUP.EXE
- Continue the setup process as if you had booted from DVD media. Enjoy!
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Comments(9)
where is the link to the guide
i have downloaded the beta of vista.
ran setup which asks for the software key.
where is it? cant proceed without it.
i have installed vista twice on my laptop after downloading image files from here.
yesterday i got notice prompt from microsoft that i need new product key or else some functions of vista will no longer work as my installation cannot be activated without the new key.
what can i do? in fact they suggest buying a key, but the link is not active.
yosefe.
www.serials.ws has keeys
i try many time to extract it but i am failed u try with win rar and also power archiver
just mount the image in daemon tools. much easier... i have a dvd burner but i still use daemon tools. it's faster and cheaper and easier.
hello can sombody help me i have download windowslonghorn but its say`s i`m missing a rar file but its all there what do i do?
could someone please tell me how to combine rar files into one iso image of vista????
help...
hello
i have downloaded pre beta 2531 on hard disk, but when try to copy files on dvd rom , it wont work , if i incert cd it cops a portion, and what is iso image . how to do that
my apologies, i am new
happy holidays guys and thaks, appreciate it
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By crazydohm on 17.09.2005 - 04:09