If the iso file is currently on DVD, unless you have 2 DVD burners in your
system, yes, you will have to copy the file to your hard disk. Even if you
do have 2 DVD burners, probably better to copy the file to your hard drive
anyway.

Lang

"Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsAC989E0-C71F-4F31-9133-36DEB984E8D2@microsoft.com...
> Sascha, I appreciate your help, but please bear with me. I downloaded the
> IMgBurn program. THe file that I have "is" on my DVD drive. Do I need to
> copy
> that to my harddrive and then follow your steps?
>
> "Sascha Benjamin Jazbec" wrote:
>
>> You must burn the Iso with a burning program by choosing "burn an image
>> to
>> disk", not send the iso as one file to the burner.
>>
>> The iso itself contains hundreds folders and files - think of it as a
>> huge
>> zip-file.
>>
>> You can only see and use the files when the iso is written to a disc,
>> there
>> it gets expanded.
>>
>> All other ways lead to a uninstallable disk.
>>
>> If you need a very good free burning software : ImgBurn is the name of
>> it.Runs on 2000/XP and all Vista
>>
>> Example on how to do it with ImgBurn: 4Steps and you are done.
>>
>> Go to : Source --"Please select a file" --> click the browse for file
>> icon
>>
>> choose the vista-iso file that you have downloaded
>>
>> Destination : Select your DVD burner.
>>
>> Then Press the big Icon with the Harddisk to DVD and it will make your
>> VistaDisk.
>>
>> Enjoy
>>
>>
>> "Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im
>> Newsbeitrag
>> news:6E604E14-3D55-405D-A18C-ADBF5B416292@microsoft.com...
>> >I downloaded the ISO file to my DVD burner, but can't do anything with
>> >it?
>>
>>

Please see my Vista FAQ/Guide for instructions on how to burn the ISO image:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry
--
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
"Sascha Benjamin Jazbec" <sbj77@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:OONEP360GHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> You must burn the Iso with a burning program by choosing "burn an image to
> disk", not send the iso as one file to the burner.
>
> The iso itself contains hundreds folders and files - think of it as a huge
> zip-file.
>
> You can only see and use the files when the iso is written to a disc,
> there it gets expanded.
>
> All other ways lead to a uninstallable disk.
>
> If you need a very good free burning software : ImgBurn is the name of
> it.Runs on 2000/XP and all Vista
>
> Example on how to do it with ImgBurn: 4Steps and you are done.
>
> Go to : Source --"Please select a file" --> click the browse for file icon
>
> choose the vista-iso file that you have downloaded
>
> Destination : Select your DVD burner.
>
> Then Press the big Icon with the Harddisk to DVD and it will make your
> VistaDisk.
>
> Enjoy
>
>
> "Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im
> Newsbeitrag news:6E604E14-3D55-405D-A18C-ADBF5B416292@microsoft.com...
>>I downloaded the ISO file to my DVD burner, but can't do anything with it?
>

Daryl Vance wrote:

> What do you do now? They only let 100K people download it and it is not
> available to try again?
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Did you simply burn a copy of the file to the DVD, or did you use a burning
>>program's "burn as image" function? You must do the latter for it to work.
>>
>>--
>>Best of Luck,
>>
>>Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>>"Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:6E604E14-3D55-405D-A18C-ADBF5B416292@microsoft.com...
>>
>>>I downloaded the ISO file to my DVD burner, but can't do anything with it?
>>
>>

Don't you still have the downloaded .iso image saved on your system?

--
Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User

Hi Daryl,

Just copy the file from the DVD to hard drive, then use a burning program
to properly burn it as a disk image.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6DFE6CAB-2158-432A-B59B-A377FA354861@microsoft.com...
> What do you do now? They only let 100K people download it and it is not
> available to try again?
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you simply burn a copy of the file to the DVD, or did you use a
>> burning
>> program's "burn as image" function? You must do the latter for it to
>> work.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6E604E14-3D55-405D-A18C-ADBF5B416292@microsoft.com...
>> >I downloaded the ISO file to my DVD burner, but can't do anything with
>> >it?
>>
>>

You burn the downloaded image directly to a dvd with burning software like
Nero or Roxio EMC. You can download a trial of the latest version which
works on Vista.

"Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B3EECFAD-137A-45BF-999C-0CC88C6F5375@microsoft.com...
>I do not remember "how" I burned it. How do you transfer it back? I
> downloaded a program called "WinImage" but it doesn't do anything either?
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>
>> Did you use the "burn image file to disc" function of your burning
>> software?
>> The .iso file is simply a dvd image that needs to be transferred back to
>> physical media.
>>
>> "Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6E604E14-3D55-405D-A18C-ADBF5B416292@microsoft.com...
>> >I downloaded the ISO file to my DVD burner, but can't do anything with
>> >it?
>>
>>
>>

If you copied the ISO to DVD, just copy it back to the HD or place the
DVD with the ISO into another DVD drive.

If you have Nero installed, and you double click on a ISO, Nero fires
off and waits for a blank (of the proper media) to be placed into the
drive. Just click BURN.
All my 32 bit versions have burnt this way at the full 16x speed on my
Plextor burner.
S

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:21:01 -0700, Daryl Vance
<DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>What do you do now? They only let 100K people download it and it is not
>available to try again?
>
>"Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you simply burn a copy of the file to the DVD, or did you use a burning
>> program's "burn as image" function? You must do the latter for it to work.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6E604E14-3D55-405D-A18C-ADBF5B416292@microsoft.com...
>> >I downloaded the ISO file to my DVD burner, but can't do anything with it?
>>
>>

That does not apply to the full RC-1

"Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6DFE6CAB-2158-432A-B59B-A377FA354861@microsoft.com...
> What do you do now? They only let 100K people download it and it is not
> available to try again?
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you simply burn a copy of the file to the DVD, or did you use a
>> burning
>> program's "burn as image" function? You must do the latter for it to
>> work.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6E604E14-3D55-405D-A18C-ADBF5B416292@microsoft.com...
>> >I downloaded the ISO file to my DVD burner, but can't do anything with
>> >it?
>>
>>

Thanks. Your suggestion to use ImgBurn worked flawlessly for me.

"Sascha Benjamin Jazbec" wrote:

> You must burn the Iso with a burning program by choosing "burn an image to
> disk", not send the iso as one file to the burner.
>
> The iso itself contains hundreds folders and files - think of it as a huge
> zip-file.
>
> You can only see and use the files when the iso is written to a disc, there
> it gets expanded.
>
> All other ways lead to a uninstallable disk.
>
> If you need a very good free burning software : ImgBurn is the name of
> it.Runs on 2000/XP and all Vista
>
> Example on how to do it with ImgBurn: 4Steps and you are done.
>
> Go to : Source --"Please select a file" --> click the browse for file icon
>
> choose the vista-iso file that you have downloaded
>
> Destination : Select your DVD burner.
>
> Then Press the big Icon with the Harddisk to DVD and it will make your
> VistaDisk.
>
> Enjoy

I downloaded the Vista 64 bit iso onto 3 different computers, each with dvd
burners. I have tried nero, imgburn, even dvdbur.exe on the 64 bit windows xp
installed computert and it burns only 10%. I next went to another computer
tried nero, magicburn and plato on it and it says it successfully burned the
iso but theres nothing on the disks, 3rd pc i tried nero and apollo and same
scenario as the second. Next, on all 3 i tried viewing the contents of the
iso with winrar (as winrar usually will extract an iso to hard drive if you
so desire) and all i see in that entire iso, is 1 readme file, all three
systems all 3 downloads, same thing. wtf?

"Sascha Benjamin Jazbec" wrote:

> You must burn the Iso with a burning program by choosing "burn an image to
> disk", not send the iso as one file to the burner.
>
> The iso itself contains hundreds folders and files - think of it as a huge
> zip-file.
>
> You can only see and use the files when the iso is written to a disc, there
> it gets expanded.
>
> All other ways lead to a uninstallable disk.
>
> If you need a very good free burning software : ImgBurn is the name of
> it.Runs on 2000/XP and all Vista
>
> Example on how to do it with ImgBurn: 4Steps and you are done.
>
> Go to : Source --"Please select a file" --> click the browse for file icon
>
> choose the vista-iso file that you have downloaded
>
> Destination : Select your DVD burner.
>
> Then Press the big Icon with the Harddisk to DVD and it will make your
> VistaDisk.
>
> Enjoy
>
>
> "Daryl Vance" <DarylVance@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:6E604E14-3D55-405D-A18C-ADBF5B416292@microsoft.com...
> >I downloaded the ISO file to my DVD burner, but can't do anything with it?
>
>

"Eunichman" <eunichman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:C4A3EF6E-E392-426F-BB37-21E5FD351243@microsoft.com...
>I downloaded the Vista 64 bit iso onto 3 different computers, each with dvd
> burners. I have tried nero, imgburn, even dvdbur.exe on the 64 bit windows
> xp
> installed computert and it burns only 10%. I next went to another computer
> tried nero, magicburn and plato on it and it says it successfully burned
> the
> iso but theres nothing on the disks, 3rd pc i tried nero and apollo and
> same
> scenario as the second. Next, on all 3 i tried viewing the contents of the
> iso with winrar (as winrar usually will extract an iso to hard drive if
> you
> so desire) and all i see in that entire iso, is 1 readme file, all three
> systems all 3 downloads, same thing. wtf?

Can't imagine what you are doing wrong. I downloaded both the 32 and 64 bit
iso files and used DVD Decrypter to burn the DVD's and both work just fine.