Hey all. My problem is that the first attempt at installing RC1 failed due to a dodgy CD, and halted the installation at the copying files section (Around 75%ish). The problem is now that everytime I attempt a reinstall, the setup simply ticks the "Copying files" box at 100% immediately, and consequently fails at the expanding files section (Obviously not all the files copied over)....

NForce4 (MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum) 3 WD SATA hard drives, 2 are RAIDed in a striping array. So first (to get the story out of the way) I tried booting Vista x64 RC1 setup via DVD and using the nVidia nForce4 drivers for Vista RC1 on CD-RW to load the RAID drivers during boot/setup but the drivers would not load. Kept trying this for a couple days, gave up. Then I found another hard drive lying...

I received the DVD from Microsoft and I tried to install Vista to my computer but the first time I ran setup I got an error message stating that the autorun.dll could not be loaded or is corrupt. What can I do? PS - On one of my computers, the DVD can't even be read.

I have a 64 bit dual core box. Vista is the first OS this one has ever had. It refused to install the 64 bit version of Beta 2. It did install the 32 bit version. How do I get it to install the 64 bit version? Steven

Hi, First time posting. I have a 64 bit dual core box. Vista is the first OS this one has ever had. It refused to install the 64 bit version of Beta 2. It did install the 32 bit version. How do I get it to install the 64 bit version? Thanks,

Hi, First time posting. I have a 64 bit dual core box. Vista is the first OS this one has ever had. It refused to install the 64 bit version of Beta 2. It did install the 32 bit version. How do I get it to install the 64 bit version? Thanks,

OK - thanks to answers to previous email Vista up and running, dual boot with XP. Activated Vista - no problem. So I wanted Antivirus protection on Vista and loaded Avast. All went well, I registered. But email not set up on Vista - its on the XP system - so I needed to switch back to XP to pick up the Avast code. Ran a virus scan first - no problem. Shut down - got an error message that...

Alkami Download manager gives me a error saying it can't handle the url and when I try and use my browser(FIrefox and IE7) I get Bad Gateway, invalid content length so what canI do?

The Alkami Download manager gives me a warnig saying can't handle url and I have to delete teh file so I try to use with browser and I get Bad Gateway, invalid content length so what can I do?

Hey I'm trying to install RC1 off a DVD i burned from the ISO i downloaded. Everytime i go to install it, it will start to install and then tell me that: setup.exe - Corrupt File: "The file or directory C:\$MFT is corrupt and unreadable. Please the run the Chkdsk utility." The latest time i tried to install it it gave me a message saying that Windows could not prepare this computer for a...

We need to run component services in order to configure DCOM settings and COM+ packages. We are running Vista Business Edition RC 1 Build 5600. We've try running it by adding Component Services snap-in under MMC as well as running comexp.msc and dcomcnfg.exe from the Run menu. Under MMC it kills the whole MMC window. When running from the Run menu the cursor goes busy for a bit then...

We are trying to test applications that make extensive use of DCOM and COM+ on Vista RC1 Business Edition. We need to be able to make changes to DOM settings and COM+ packages. We normally make these changes in Component Services. Unfortunately we are unable to run Component Services on any of our installations. We are using build number 5600. We've tried adding the stap-in under MMC,...

I get the following error with download manager Network Error: The download Manager cannot make a network connection. Could this be related to being behind a proxy ? I try the "direct" download links and get an .iso file of 933 bytes. This wouldn't be because of the rumored RC2 to be available tomorrow would it ?

How can I get the local administrator account enabled during a wds unattended install? I have created a wdsclientunattend.xml file with the SIM app and when I use WDS to deploy the base Vista image the admin account is disabled and the local account I setup in the .xml file does not create the local account either.

All, I was wondering if anyone knows how to install Vista where the OS partition uses the D: Letter and not C: I normally install my OS as fallows: C: temp directory (page File) (Primary Partition) (Fat32) D: Windows Directory (Logical Drive) (NTFS) E: Programs (Logical Drive) (NTFS) F: Data Files (Logical Drive) (NTFS)

Vista-RC1.Setup doesn`t like the partition I choosed for vista. It won`t let me know why, perhaps it wants me to play guessing :-) What a playfull setup! Whatever: I spent 5 hours moving disks, cables, switching jumpers and reformated the partition like 10 times to make it work. Cool! Reasons: ~ Target disk MUST be /dev/hda (primary master) ~ Target partition MUST be marked active...

I have been trying to upgrade from Windows Vista Beta 2 to Vista RC1, but it fails. I first downloaded the .iso file using the download manager, but then after the upgrade failed, I redownloaded it without the download manager. I reburned it to a DVD several times. I tried burning it to a DVD at 2x, because I had found somewhere that that might help. It didn't. The point during the...

Daft question I am afraid, but I was shooting off on a business trip as RC1 availability came up, so I opted for the simplest solution to get Microsoft to send me an RC1 premade DVD. Now I am back and my nice DVD package has arrived from Microsoft, but it just says it is RC1, no build number on DVD or packaging. Anyone know of a way I can check from the contents of the DVD whether this is...

Hello Can with Upgrade from beta2 to 5728 ? Because when I try to do it, the "Upgrade" icone is not accessible and I can do only a "Clean Install" Thank you to tell me how you did it, if somebody did it? Marc

the problem is the video card is not compatible yet uninstall 7950 video card and replace with older video card. Now reinstall RC1. You can install after the OS is installed and updated. But you will still not get full function os the card. It will only run 1 GPU. sometimes you have to go into safe mode device manager and disable one of the GPUs to stop the blue screen crashing.