Vista - Installation of Vista from MSDN download

I've tried installing Windows Vista x64 from a DVD burnt from MSDN .iso
download, but am coming up against the same problem over and over.

The PC starts to boot from the DVD, and goes through the screen stating that
Windows is starting and loading required files, but immediately after this I
get a screen stating that winload.exe is either corrupt or missing. This is
BEFORE I have actually installed anything.

Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try redownloading the image? Is it
possible to mount the ISO as a drive and then run the instal from this
instead (in case the image wasn't burnt correctly)? I found that burning the
iso to dvd was problematic too. Took several attempts before it worked. Has
anyone else had similar problems??

Any advice would be gratefully received!!

Please read the instructions on the MSDN subscriber home page web site
titled: "What is an ISO CD image?"
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"neildillamore" wrote:

| I've tried installing Windows Vista x64 from a DVD burnt from MSDN .iso
| download, but am coming up against the same problem over and over.
|
| The PC starts to boot from the DVD, and goes through the screen stating that
| Windows is starting and loading required files, but immediately after this I
| get a screen stating that winload.exe is either corrupt or missing. This is
| BEFORE I have actually installed anything.
|
| Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try redownloading the image? Is it
| possible to mount the ISO as a drive and then run the instal from this
| instead (in case the image wasn't burnt correctly)? I found that burning the
| iso to dvd was problematic too. Took several attempts before it worked. Has
| anyone else had similar problems??
|
| Any advice would be gratefully received!!

"neildillamore" <neildillamore@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3883B6F5-3CCA-401F-9711-28E625C5C3CB@microsoft.com...
> I've tried installing Windows Vista x64 from a DVD burnt from MSDN .iso
> download, but am coming up against the same problem over and over.
>
> The PC starts to boot from the DVD, and goes through the screen stating
> that
> Windows is starting and loading required files, but immediately after this
> I
> get a screen stating that winload.exe is either corrupt or missing. This
> is
> BEFORE I have actually installed anything.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try redownloading the image? Is it
> possible to mount the ISO as a drive and then run the instal from this
> instead (in case the image wasn't burnt correctly)? I found that burning
> the
> iso to dvd was problematic too. Took several attempts before it worked.
> Has
> anyone else had similar problems??
>
> Any advice would be gratefully received!!

Have you checked the MD5/SHA1 of your downloaded ISO against the information
provided on the download page? If not, you should. If your ISO checks out,
try a new burn at the slowest available speed of your DVD burner (1x or 2x
recommended).
If you don't have a utility to check MD5/SHA 1, here's one I've found
useful:

http://www.slavasoft.com/?source=HashCalc.chm

Thanks for the info...

Does this mean that you think there is something wrong with the image that
has been burnt?

Neil.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> Please read the instructions on the MSDN subscriber home page web site
> titled: "What is an ISO CD image?"
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
>
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "neildillamore" wrote:
>
> | I've tried installing Windows Vista x64 from a DVD burnt from MSDN .iso
> | download, but am coming up against the same problem over and over.
> |
> | The PC starts to boot from the DVD, and goes through the screen stating that
> | Windows is starting and loading required files, but immediately after this I
> | get a screen stating that winload.exe is either corrupt or missing. This is
> | BEFORE I have actually installed anything.
> |
> | Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try redownloading the image? Is it
> | possible to mount the ISO as a drive and then run the instal from this
> | instead (in case the image wasn't burnt correctly)? I found that burning the
> | iso to dvd was problematic too. Took several attempts before it worked. Has
> | anyone else had similar problems??
> |
> | Any advice would be gratefully received!!
>
>
>

Thanks for your help - I'll try this as soon as I can and I'll let you know
how I get on!!

Neil.

"pvdg42" wrote:

>
> "neildillamore" <neildillamore@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3883B6F5-3CCA-401F-9711-28E625C5C3CB@microsoft.com...
> > I've tried installing Windows Vista x64 from a DVD burnt from MSDN .iso
> > download, but am coming up against the same problem over and over.
> >
> > The PC starts to boot from the DVD, and goes through the screen stating
> > that
> > Windows is starting and loading required files, but immediately after this
> > I
> > get a screen stating that winload.exe is either corrupt or missing. This
> > is
> > BEFORE I have actually installed anything.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try redownloading the image? Is it
> > possible to mount the ISO as a drive and then run the instal from this
> > instead (in case the image wasn't burnt correctly)? I found that burning
> > the
> > iso to dvd was problematic too. Took several attempts before it worked.
> > Has
> > anyone else had similar problems??
> >
> > Any advice would be gratefully received!!
>
> Have you checked the MD5/SHA1 of your downloaded ISO against the information
> provided on the download page? If not, you should. If your ISO checks out,
> try a new burn at the slowest available speed of your DVD burner (1x or 2x
> recommended).
> If you don't have a utility to check MD5/SHA 1, here's one I've found
> useful:
>
> http://www.slavasoft.com/?source=HashCalc.chm
>
>
>

How have you tried to install Vista? From within XP? CD boot? Is XP on the
computer? Message regarding "winload.exe" usually indicates "confusion" by
the system over which OS it is trying to install/boot.

"neildillamore" <neildillamore@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3883B6F5-3CCA-401F-9711-28E625C5C3CB@microsoft.com...
> I've tried installing Windows Vista x64 from a DVD burnt from MSDN .iso
> download, but am coming up against the same problem over and over.
>
> The PC starts to boot from the DVD, and goes through the screen stating
> that
> Windows is starting and loading required files, but immediately after this
> I
> get a screen stating that winload.exe is either corrupt or missing. This
> is
> BEFORE I have actually installed anything.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try redownloading the image? Is it
> possible to mount the ISO as a drive and then run the instal from this
> instead (in case the image wasn't burnt correctly)? I found that burning
> the
> iso to dvd was problematic too. Took several attempts before it worked.
> Has
> anyone else had similar problems??
>
> Any advice would be gratefully received!!

It is implied that you didn't burn an image. You burned a file and a file is
not bootable.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"neildillamore" <neildillamore@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7631A4D4-5133-4A35-8AB7-268111B7EE06@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the info...
>
> Does this mean that you think there is something wrong with the image that
> has been burnt?
>
> Neil.
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Please read the instructions on the MSDN subscriber home page web site
>> titled: "What is an ISO CD image?"
>> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
>>
>>
>> --
>> Carey Frisch
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "neildillamore" wrote:
>>
>> | I've tried installing Windows Vista x64 from a DVD burnt from MSDN .iso
>> | download, but am coming up against the same problem over and over.
>> |
>> | The PC starts to boot from the DVD, and goes through the screen stating
>> that
>> | Windows is starting and loading required files, but immediately after
>> this I
>> | get a screen stating that winload.exe is either corrupt or missing.
>> This is
>> | BEFORE I have actually installed anything.
>> |
>> | Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try redownloading the image? Is it
>> | possible to mount the ISO as a drive and then run the instal from this
>> | instead (in case the image wasn't burnt correctly)? I found that
>> burning the
>> | iso to dvd was problematic too. Took several attempts before it worked.
>> Has
>> | anyone else had similar problems??
>> |
>> | Any advice would be gratefully received!!
>>
>>
>>

Hi :-)

When you are going to burn an ISO, you need to select the "Burn Image to
Disk", or Burn as Image" in your DVD burner program in order for the file to
be burned properly. If you burn it as you would normally burn a regular
file to a CD or DVD it will not work properly.

You don't mention what program you are using to burn the ISO with, but, if
you look in the Help section for burning instructions for image or iso it
should tell you what steps you need to do in order to burn the iso.

Also, check to be sure that the file has .iso as the extension. If not,
then it did not download properly and you need to redownload the file. If
it does have the iso, as has been suggested here, burn it at a lower speed,
at 1x - 2x, depending on the lowest speed your burner allows. Be sure that
you are using the right media and the speed is compatible with your burner.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE

"neildillamore" <neildillamore@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3883B6F5-3CCA-401F-9711-28E625C5C3CB@microsoft.com...
> I've tried installing Windows Vista x64 from a DVD burnt from MSDN .iso
> download, but am coming up against the same problem over and over.
>
> The PC starts to boot from the DVD, and goes through the screen stating
> that
> Windows is starting and loading required files, but immediately after this
> I
> get a screen stating that winload.exe is either corrupt or missing. This
> is
> BEFORE I have actually installed anything.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try redownloading the image? Is it
> possible to mount the ISO as a drive and then run the instal from this
> instead (in case the image wasn't burnt correctly)? I found that burning
> the
> iso to dvd was problematic too. Took several attempts before it worked.
> Has
> anyone else had similar problems??
>
> Any advice would be gratefully received!!

Jan Ilacqua [MVP] wrote:

> Hi :-)
>
> When you are going to burn an ISO, you need to select the "Burn Image
> to Disk", or Burn as Image" in your DVD burner program in order for
> the file to be burned properly. If you burn it as you would normally
> burn a regular file to a CD or DVD it will not work properly.
>
> You don't mention what program you are using to burn the ISO with,
> but, if you look in the Help section for burning instructions for
> image or iso it should tell you what steps you need to do in order to
> burn the iso.
>
> Also, check to be sure that the file has .iso as the extension. If
> not, then it did not download properly and you need to redownload the
> file. If it does have the iso, as has been suggested here, burn it
> at a lower speed, at 1x - 2x, depending on the lowest speed your
> burner allows. Be sure that you are using the right media and the
> speed is compatible with your burner.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jan
> MS MVP - Windows IE
>

I use the free program imgburn... hasn't let me down yet, and will burn
from a number of formats.

Works under Vista, too.

http://www.imgburn.com/
--
Paul-B

That one is a good one, and I have used it too. I also found that CDBurner
Pro (freeware) works very good as well in Vista. Very easy to use.
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE

"Paul-B" <paul@rasf1.net> wrote in message
news:4ufopjF17qj0kU1@mid.individual.net...
> Jan Ilacqua [MVP] wrote:
>
>> Hi :-)
>>
>> When you are going to burn an ISO, you need to select the "Burn Image
>> to Disk", or Burn as Image" in your DVD burner program in order for
>> the file to be burned properly. If you burn it as you would normally
>> burn a regular file to a CD or DVD it will not work properly.
>>
>> You don't mention what program you are using to burn the ISO with,
>> but, if you look in the Help section for burning instructions for
>> image or iso it should tell you what steps you need to do in order to
>> burn the iso.
>>
>> Also, check to be sure that the file has .iso as the extension. If
>> not, then it did not download properly and you need to redownload the
>> file. If it does have the iso, as has been suggested here, burn it
>> at a lower speed, at 1x - 2x, depending on the lowest speed your
>> burner allows. Be sure that you are using the right media and the
>> speed is compatible with your burner.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Jan
>> MS MVP - Windows IE
>>
>
> I use the free program imgburn... hasn't let me down yet, and will burn
> from a number of formats.
>
> Works under Vista, too.
>
> http://www.imgburn.com/
> --
> Paul-B