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Chinageorge
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      02-17-2007
Hi, looking for a little help here.

I just purchased a download copy of Vista Ultimate UPGRADE. There are 3
files that come in the download. install.wim, boot.wim, and X13-49120.exe

Is it possible to burn these files to a DVD so that I have a bootable DVD I
can install from? I want to try using the UPGRADE DVD to do a clean
installation as is outlined in the article..
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp

I would have bought a copy of the DVD directly, but I live in Beijing so
that makes getting the DVD in my hands a little time consuming..

Thanks for any help
 
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Sascha Benjamin Jazbec
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      02-17-2007
you cannot use this files to create a setup disk.

Back them up to disk of cause for they are worth lots of money, but that is
no "puzzle set to create a iso" - sorry.
They are intended only to be running inside a copy of XP -one time- .

You could try to experiment with vlite ( www.vlite.net ) to create a
standard iso DVD out of these files, that can be possible, but I highly
doubt
a) that this thing is bootable and
b) that you can run an installation off such a bootable dvd, because even if
you are luck in creating such a DVD, Microsoft is blocking "DVD-boot and
setup" in Upgrade editions.

It is like I said, these files are one time install on exisitng XP only.
Nobody can understand that, but Microsofts Sales Department decided this way
for the online distribution of Vista.

also notice that if you have downloaded a 64bit version that you can run
setup only on XP x64.

SJ /germany

"Chinageorge" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:87DFDC3E-8531-4475-9457-...
> Hi, looking for a little help here.
>
> I just purchased a download copy of Vista Ultimate UPGRADE. There are 3
> files that come in the download. install.wim, boot.wim, and X13-49120.exe
>
> Is it possible to burn these files to a DVD so that I have a bootable DVD
> I
> can install from? I want to try using the UPGRADE DVD to do a clean
> installation as is outlined in the article..
> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp
>
> I would have bought a copy of the DVD directly, but I live in Beijing so
> that makes getting the DVD in my hands a little time consuming..
>
> Thanks for any help


 
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Brian W
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      02-17-2007

"Chinageorge" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, looking for a little help here.
>
> I just purchased a download copy of Vista Ultimate UPGRADE. There are 3
> files that come in the download. install.wim, boot.wim, and X13-49120.exe


Hey, someone in China has actually PURCHASED Vista! This can't be right lol
:-)


 
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