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michaelOfGeorgia -> Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 5:56:37 AM)

i just got an ISO version of XP Pro and would like to know if anyone can help in installing it. Please, serious posts only...i need help desperately.



darkinshadows -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:02:17 AM)

Burn an ISO to a CD using certain DVD or CD burning tools (Nero may have such - just google CD/DVD burner Iso) - once burnt it acts like a normal CD/DVD and should auto run as long as you have a valid XP PRO key for the version you have the ISO for.
 
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michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:04:43 AM)

i've already got it burned to CD, just need help installing it.



darkinshadows -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:08:28 AM)

Once it is burnt to CD - in other words - when the ISO has been expanded into the parts it was formed from, it should run as a normal CD DVD?
 
Do you have the key to be able to instal it?
 
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michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:12:22 AM)

yes, but, for some reason, it won't load after rebooting. i've followed the instructions to boot from CD and it still bypasses the CD and loads my existing windows.



darkinshadows -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:16:29 AM)

What is written on the CD ie files?
 
edit to ask - when you look on the CD - does it just say xp pro.ISO or are there files like auto run.exe -  autorun.imf - read me.txt? etc...



michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:20:33 AM)

i don't know...it's 522 MBs so i know it all downloaded



darkinshadows -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:24:18 AM)

Its on a CD right?
Click into windows explorer and look at the contents of the CD. (Start - my computer - drive(or cd etc) and click to open - the files that are on the disc should come up.  List me some of the files you see?
 
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michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:28:26 AM)

let me get back to you, i have to step out. will be back in a bit.



seeksfemslave -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:29:22 AM)

Excellent Darkinshadows. An explanation without recourse to incomprehensible jargon. Virtually a first and definately a rarity IMO
Clever gir....eh eh female type person!

By the way...what is ISO



darkinshadows -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:34:29 AM)

It's not a stock or share[;)]
LoL - and it's ok seeks - girls OK - coz I lurves you.[:D]
 
And ISO is basically like a picture or image of a CD which when burnt onto another CD will have the proper files and everything in the right place so a programme can run.  If it the ISO isn;t opened and just burnt onto a CD, it won't run as a programme, you need to have burnt it onto a CD / DVD with the correct type of burner to write the original files back onto the CD/DVD.
 
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stef -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:42:40 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: michaelOfGeorgia

yes, but, for some reason, it won't load after rebooting. i've followed the instructions to boot from CD and it still bypasses the CD and loads my existing windows.

If you have checked the bios settings to allow the machine to boot from the CD and have placed the CD drive ahead of the hard disk in boot order and it's still not booting, then it's likely you either have a bad image on that CD or the burn had errors.

~stef



darkinshadows -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 6:59:15 AM)

It could be those, but michael still hasn't said he has dealt with the ISO properly.  Another reason could be that it just hasn't been burnt onto the disc 'open' as it were and he just needs to do that.  He's only said He has an 'ISO' - not that its open - to me that just implies hes burnt the downloaded image to a cd, rather than having properly burnt the ISO image to recreate the original CD?
Thats my impression anyways.
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Real0ne -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 7:55:02 AM)

1) iso is not a version it is an image "file" of the original disk.

2) if you plopped the iso file on your burner and burned it as a .iso file so when you see it in explorer it says <filename.iso> it wont work.  you need to see an i386 directory then you have it properly burned.

possibly the easiest solution is:
2) you have to go to your burner and use "burn image" or image file or something along those lines of verbage which will restore or recreate the original structure of the cd disk prior to the creation of an image. (iso)

Then there is no gaurantee it was set to be a bootable cd anyway

If not there are other ways to handle it if you are doing an upgrade or already have windows on the computer you are installing to.  (i never recommend upgrades tho because its sort of like a bad marriage windows usually likes a fresh start best LOL






Real0ne -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 7:56:27 AM)

yeh thats what it sounds like to me too based on the thread title.



stef -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 8:12:21 AM)

Of course, there's the distinct possibility that the ISO image that Mikey downloaded could have just been a dummy file and it'll never work.  File sharing networks are filled with such files, much to the dismay of those looking for "free" software.

I don't know what he used to burn it, but he should try the program Active ISO Burner.  I've never burned a coaster with it when I had a valid ISO image.

~stef



farglebargle -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 8:59:02 AM)

Ever wonder why so many Windows users have such bad experience?

Stolen tools have BAD KARMA.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download




stef -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 12:16:16 PM)

Thanks, but I'll pass.  When $linux_distro_flavor_of_the_month can run Windows apps, let me know.  Until then, it'll have a happy home on my servers, but not on any of my desktops.

~stef



Termyn8or -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 12:31:27 PM)

Let's cut to the chase here. You don't need to boot from the CD to install it.

You only need that if there is no OS already installed. Thing is, what is your current OS ? If it is 98 the HD is going to be FAT32 not NTFS. You'll have to read up on it's limitations if that is the case, if it is NTFS you are good to go. IIRC NTFS is faster, but XP will run just fine on FAT32. You also don't have the extreme file encryption of NTFS, but I know how to break that anyway.

All you have to do is open the CD in Windows explorer or even My Computer. In the root directory you'll only see about a page of files. Look around at the one(s) that say setup. Right click for properties and make sure you got the one that has the MS-DOS name SETUP.EXE. Double click that and setup will start.

I've done it a whole bunch of times when the PC's BIOS doesn't want to cooperate. Also if you have certain Compaq PCs without the ROMpaq on the HD you can't even get into the BIOS, but I'm not sure they continued to do that dumb shit in their newer PCs, the P1s and P2 were like that, I am not sure about the newer ones.

If you can't find setup.exe, look at the contents and see if all there is is one huge .ISO file. That means it is a disk image ready for burning, which would reconstruct the file system. That would explain not being able to boot from it. If that is so, I think you need Nero to do it, and just burn a CD from it, then use that. It should at that point be bootable. That would explain the problem.

I also have this habit of copying the install CD to the HD. If you install from the HD it is alot faster. Then if it ever asks for the XP CD in the future you can just point it to the directory you crated for it, which you generally name the label of the CD, but not if it's a copy.

You can also make an XP disk then at will by just burning all the files to a CD, but it will not be bootable. Anyone using it must have something bootable in the PC to use it.

One last caveat, if your HD is bigger than 138GB, make SURE you at least get service pack one. If not, writing the 139th GB results in wiping out all data on the drive.

SP1 might be on the CD if it is a newr one, not sure. I am pretty sure I have it somewhere. Also if anyone likes 98SE like I do (wow), I have the Windows update files for it. I have been told to guard them with my life and have burned 2 CDs of just them. Ironically, where Windows saves the files, it has a TXT file which says "It is OK to delete these files". Sure is, if your brain is mush, because now you can't get them anymore.

So keep an eye out for a new directory formed when you get SP1, and burn it to CD immediately. Some people do not want SP2, not sure why, it is apparently not friendly with certain software or hardware.

If indeed someone screwed up and simply burned the ISO disk image to CD, that is a problem. If that is the case, copy it to the HD and look through your burning software carefully for options, you need to burn CD FROM the image, NOT burn the image to CD. If all you have is a 522MB ISO file, that is precisely where someone screwed up.

Hope this helps. I hope you are not bootleghgeing XP though, there are already alot of people doing that, they might catch on :-).

T



Aileen68 -> RE: Installing an ISO program. (5/17/2007 12:41:42 PM)

Speak English people!



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