Install Windows Vista With Minimal Errors - A Guide To Avoid Most Setup Errors
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Friday, October 06, 2006 1:56 PM
Dear Reader,
After months of research on Windows Vista Setup Process, I've found the most suitable technique to avoid most setup errors and to verify the following:
1- Downloaded file is valid for setup.
2- Determine whether the DVD image you burnt is damaged or the downloaded file.
3- Issues concerning Install.WIM file (master setup file).
Tool needed:
Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1
Steps:
1- Run the winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe tool to extract it.
2- Double Click: VCdControlTool.exe
3- Click Driver Control, Install Driver then browse for VCdRom.sys file and select Open then start then Ok.
4- Click Add Drive then Click Mount and browse for your vista file you downloaded and Open then don't check any option and click Ok.
Now you have a virtual copy of the Vista DVD, you can perform the following:
- Copy the entire DVD contents to local hard drive as offline/network setup source.
- Copy the Install.WIM to the local hard drive in case of failure of adding this file to DVD image during burn process.
- Verify that this downloaded file is valid for setup (By copying entire contents to local hard drive and perform installation from it) so that if there were any DVD burnt image not working, so the error from the burn process and NOT the downloaded file.
To perform clean installation from the local hard drive directly:
1- Do NOT perform setup from the Virtual DVD you just mounted your vista file in.
2- Copy entire DVD contents to local source folder named for example: "WINDOWS VISTA".
3- Perform the setup process as clean installation (UPGRADING BETA SOFTWARE NOT RECOMMENDED).
This method avoids you having many setup issues regarding DVD image, bad Install.WIM file reading and many more!
All Replies
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Friday, October 20, 2006 7:25 PM
Thank you for this guide. It is kind of you to respond and I think it is good advice.
The DVD I was using was snail mailed to me from Microsoft, I did not download it. It is an "original" and so should not be a problem for the install. In fact, I wrote that I had done a clean install into Virtual PC 2004 from the same media. I trust it is ok.
I think if you re-read my post, the combination of our motherboard, CPU, and SATA drives is the issue in our case. Please read again what I posted, and expand the explaination of the Install.WIM as this might be the answer to my issue, by enabling, or disabling an aspect of the install.
Once the "DOS" portion is loaded, the screen freezes when bringing up the "windows" part. If I install from inside XP, I get much further, infact to the point of the first reboot, then exaxtly the same freeze after the reboot prevents progress.
Once back into XP (Pro SP2), I got a message that the install failed and all was rolled back. This was not the case and I had to manually fix the issue. I found the program in the boot folder that allows me to put the MBR back to NT52, which was the only real sucess so far. So at least I have a clean booting XP even though to roll back failed. It is like the software cannot get access to the hard drives.
Regards, and thank you for spending a little time on this with me.
David.
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 8:17 PM
4- Click Add Drive then Click Mount and browse for your vista file you downloaded and Open then don't check any option and click Ok.
It says "Mount Failed", I've followed all the instructions, step by step and restarted all the process more than 5 times, any idea ?
With Daemon 4.0.8 I have the 0x80070241 error... I'm so lost.By the way, thanks for your help.
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Friday, December 22, 2006 9:18 AM You're right in this step if you're running from Windows Vista, you have to run this tool from Windows XP in order not to get this error.
Good luck
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Friday, February 02, 2007 4:35 AMhmmm i am geting the 0x80070241 error with vista RTM
ive searched all over these forums and cant find a solution, i tryed both upgrade and full install options, and install still stops at 40 -50% range, so i tried to boot from the dvd, it loads windows files, then crashes windows, i get the blue screen, and ive alos tried above, same outcome. can you help me please, my email is
gregharding49@gmail.com
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Friday, February 09, 2007 10:02 AM
Dear Mr.Ahmed i tried to install vista from my local hard disk following your instructions but it gave me the same damn error i wonder is the problem related to some files that we can replace them
ur help will be soooooooooooooooooooo much appreciated
Ceasar from great egypt
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Friday, February 09, 2007 2:39 PM
Unluckly, most file errors are found in the install.wim , it's the master setup file, WIM files are highly compressed package from Microsoft, there is no tool or software can extract or browse them, so you might need a clean copy of the install.wim without data errors.
Good luck
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:54 AM
I tried installing vista ultimate 64 on a brand new hard drive (notebook amd 64). Got the same error code. One opionion thus far I found here:
suggesting that the program is corrupt. Until MS fixes perhaps there isn't any voodoo the rest of us can do so that it installs.
I was able to install the 32bit without any problem however.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:33 AM
ok, i need this in plain english. i followed the steps you gave but, it didnt help. i am stuck 125 miles in the gulf of mexico. i had to download the Vista ultimate edition from here. it took about 20 hrs for all 3 downloads to come accross. im now stuck with an 0x80070570 error right after i enter the key code. i dont know anything about virtual cd's and what not. im use to simply downloading and installing. if there are so many issues with the software... why don't they put out a fix. every where i go people are asking the same question about the install.
any suggestions with the downloaded version.... i don't speak computer lingo
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:16 AM
I am NOT a computer GURU. i have no idea about virtual pc's and virtual cd's. that seems to be the answers at most of the forums. i downloaded my Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade. i am attempting to upgrade from windows xp media center. i did a tone of research before buying the software. everyplace i checked including the Gateway main site that has a Vista check program... says my laptop is compatible. however, after entering the key code, i get an error 0x80070570.
please let me know what i need to do to finish this install. is microsoft going to come out with a fix for any of the problems we are having?
let me know in plain english... please.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:41 PM
This might be of some use to you, i found this on another forum.
What is recommended, is for you to burn at 1x or 2x speeds, and after the burn run a CRC check utility to prevent this from happening. There are many third party crc check ulitites that are available for download, search for them and find the one that you think will work best for you. This makes sure that what you have on the dvd is the same as the .iso file.
Andre Rivera
Windows Beta Feedback Team
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:50 PM
Virtual CD is a tool from Microsoft to help you open CD/DVD images are existing on Hard Disk without needing to burn it to a blank CD/DVD.
Follow the steps as shown. They're simple to check on your own copy of Windows Vista.
Good luck
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:55 PM
Robin bredin wrote: This might be of some use to you, i found this on another forum.
What is recommended, is for you to burn at 1x or 2x speeds, and after the burn run a CRC check utility to prevent this from happening. There are many third party crc check ulitites that are available for download, search for them and find the one that you think will work best for you. This makes sure that what you have on the dvd is the same as the .iso file.
Andre Rivera
Windows Beta Feedback Team
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Thanks for your add, it's known info, but it's useless for those who got already original Vista DVDs and some got a downloadable copy. So we work on solving these problems one by one simply.
Good luck
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:58 PM
Hello,
I purchased a licensed version of MS Windows Vista Business Edition from the IT department school. I did not download any versions onliine. There are 5 discs and I am unable to progress through the first disc because I'm receiving the following error:
I'm computer illiterate, AT BEST“Windows cannot copy files required for installation. The files may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for the installation are available, and restart the installation. Error Code: 0x80070017.”
, when it comes to techical jargon, so I need laymen's terminology.
Typically, I put an installation disc into my drive and it runs and installs. I have followed your instructions and downloaded the winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe file. Within the process, I get lost at step 4, which says:
"4- Click Add Drive then Click Mount and browse for your vista file you downloaded and Open then don't check any option and click Ok."
I don't know what the downloaded file refers to since I didn't download anything.
Alternatively, I read the "readme.txt" that is extracted from the winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe file, which says:
"9. Navigate to the image file, select it, and click "OK". UNC naming conventions should not be used, however mapped network drives should be OK."
I don't know what image file the instructions are referring to. Would the downloaded file or the image file be found on disc 1 (since I haven't downloaded anything?)
I've been trying to get this installed for 2 days and am still unsuccessful. Can you help me please?
Thank you very much and kindest regards,
Dearick
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:47 PM
this is all well and good....but what if you don't want to finish the upgrade after the headaches it causes? the install never finished, but it was stuck with parts of Vista on my XP....and now some of my programs won't work....how can i get the vista off my computer without having to do a full wipe?
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:10 AM
you can download EasyBcd and just remove the entry then erase the data files on the hard disk....hope that works out for u
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Monday, March 10, 2008 2:38 AMmy problem is very similar....
I bought a copy of the vista home premium upgrade from a computer shop... completely legal and not downloaded...
i had problems downloading XP's SP2 so i thought vista would upgrade without it.. not the case...
after a few days of searching and asking i managed to get my computer upgraded to XP SP2... only coz i wanted vista
now i try to upgrade to vista and it says "windows cannot copy files required for installation (error code 0x8007045D)
this has nothing to do with I/0 or DVD images or trying to run a virtual DVD... i just want my $150 copy of vista to work on a normal computer...
I am soooo sick of microsoft playing with me! first i could get SP2 now this... so over it!
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:08 AMIf you'll notice in tiny letters on the download page a disclamer for indidual users to wait until mid-April and update via the Windows update interface. The current one is to install on networked computers. I think I'll play it safe and wait 'til mid-April. What's 3 weeks compred to a year of waiting for system stability?
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Friday, March 28, 2008 1:19 PM
Does anyone know if the winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe program will work with an installed version of Vista Home Premium? If not, has a newer version been released for VISTA?
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 7:03 PM
have a Toshiba Equium A210-17L with Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit installed which is 2 months old.
I was talking to friends on MSN and this happened...
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Windows Boot Manager
Windows has encountered a problem communicating with your computer.
This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an external USB drive whilst the device is in use, or by faulty hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. make sure any removable storage is properly connected and then restart your computer.
If you continue to receive this error message, contact the hardware manufacturer.
Status: 0xc00000e9
Info: An unexpected I/O error has occurred
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The Launch Startup Repair tool hasn't been able to sort it, and it won't boot in Safe Mode either. And my windows vista disk has no effect and will NOT run.I have been told to access my PC and run something but I can NOT get on to my laptop at all, when i turn it on it asks me if i want to "fix the error(s)" so i click yes than it just takes me back to the above message. i can NOT run any disks or access my computer in anyway at all. And i do not own any removable storage, so that theory does not apply....!
Pleaase help!
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:16 AM
Hi Ahmed. Thank u for this Guide. Its Really Working...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:27 AMVirtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1, Unable to mount ISO file in Windows 7; error message: "Mount Failed."
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Sunday, April 18, 2010 6:13 AMTried to install off DVD of ISO I downloaded, but got that error. I copied all the files from the ISO to the WinXP HDD and tried a flat install, but got that dreaded error again. I checked the file size of install.wim and it was smaller than it should have been so I copied that file only to an external HDD and wrote over the bad copy. Tried install again and it all seems to be working!!
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Monday, December 27, 2010 2:51 AM
*Please see the licensing restrictions at the bottom that you need "full vista isos/DVDs" to perform "fresh" / clean / booting installations *
Free virtual drive to use isos inside windows :
the xp virtual drive tool is a bit outdated and complex.. this one is a better choice :
a xp/vista/7 32 and 64 bit compatible virtual DVD drive for free is "virtual clone drive" from elbysoft. Version 5.x and higher is compatible with every OS since XP. It installs a driver for a Mass Sotrage SCSI device, no reboot required, and sits in the system tray from which you can mount any cd,dvd iso,mdf,nrg,img and so on.
The DVD icon will appear in "(My) Computer" and can be accessed like a physical drive.
you can launch vistas setup within xp from such a virtual dvd - vista copies all files to a temporary directory on C:\, reboots and will install. The disc is not needed anymore once the process starts.
Most important : You cannot run the Setup.exe for a x64 Vista inside a 32bit XP ! , Xp64 can run the setup for Vista x64 of course.
If you have a 32bit Windows and wish to replace it with a 64bit windows vista ( or 7 ) you need to boot the PC off the x64 medium, DVD or USB ( booting from it is "outside" your currrent windows and therefore always works ) :
Making a bootable USB stick :
mount the vista (7) iso or put in the physical dvd, x32 or x64 doesnt matter, cause you not launch it at this point.
insert a whipeable USB thumbdrive, minimum size of roughly 4GB.
open a command prompt as admin , type in "diskpart" ( advanced partition and formatting utility in vista )
In diskpart : "list disc" , select disc Number of the USB drive, e.g. disc1 ( figure out you really select the correct drive by its size ! ) , so the command would be "select disc1" - diskpart will tell you "disc 1 is now the selected disc".
Then prepare it to be a installation source :
type : clean and hit enter. dispart should tell you "disc1 cleaned"
type : "create partition primary" ( on the selected usb disk ) , enter.
type : "select partition 0"
type "active", enter. ( this makes it active, critical for being bootable )
type "assign". ( this gives the raw drive a Drive Letter, the next best free one like E:\ or F:\ .. )
type : format /fs:ntfs /quick ( you can also use fat32 but ntfs is more robust )
wait until the formatting is complete,
type : "exit" in the diskpart command window.
Preparation is now done, once and for all this stick can be used as a boot up thing forever.
now copy the complete content of the Vista DVD/iso with all files and folders onto the USB stick. Dont do any other file operations in that time, wait until the copying process completes with no errors. Check the content, compare it to the content of the DVD/iso.
The stick is now bootable. Leave it inserted, restart PC and hit your BIOS key ( F2,F8,F12 depends on Make and Model ) to choose the boot-device. Select the USB disk, have no other usb sticks inserted, only the one with the windows installation files.
Setup will start, either x32 or x64, depending on what you had copied onto the stick.
You will never again need to prepare the stick with diskpart again. For example you can delete the vista files off it and copy the content of a Win7 disk onto it instead, then you have a Win7 boot-up stick for installation.
If space is left on the drive it might be a good idea to make a folder "drivers" and put needed ones in them, so you carry those right with you and can windows tell to search that folder for needed drivers like wifi,graphics etc.. you can create also folders for updates,addons,programs - depends only on space and your creativity. But do not touch the "sources" or "boot" folder - also see that "bootmgr" resides in the top level ( root ) directory of the USB drive. The one that has .efi in the name is needed to boot up a Intel based Macintosh. ( EFI is Macs kind of "BIOS" ) The other one bootmanager without the efi extension is for standard pcs , e.g. big oem machines or self-assembled ones.
I do that all the time to install windows ( or linux ) on my machines. No need to burn DVDs anymore. The usb method is more reliable and way quicker and a lot better for nature
;)
The "magic" what makes the stick bootable is this basic layout :
one active partition, formatted either fat32 or ntfs
the file "bootmgr" in the root
the "boot" folder with its content in the root
the "boot.wim" in the sources folder. ( will launch the Setup-screen, the license agreement and the disk-chooser where to install windows to )
the "install.wim" in the sources folder ( will expand Vista edition of choice to the fixed disk ).
All other files and folder ( like support, upgrade, migwiz ) are only needed for upgrade or manual ( inside windows ) install.
the above " magic " layout is a minimal and its enough for clean installation, wiping the disk and putting fresh vista on it. boot.wim contains the Windows PE environment which calls "install.wim", the preconfigured vista-os-image that gets extracted to your Hard-drive.
by the way : "7zip" ( www.7zip.org ) is a open source Winzip/winrar replacement, totally free and this tool can open .wim files .. try it - then you see whats inside them and extract single files from it in case a windows systemfile is corrupt or so, very handy ).
99% of installation errors are a corrupted install.wim file - burning errors or copying errors. This "install.wim" is the critical thing. It contains everything that vista is made of. Instead of the xp-install-way of copying file for file to the disk, this is copied as a whole, then when its on the HDD it expands itself .. that way the installation is so rapidly. Think of wims like Backup Images like Norton Ghost,Acronis true Image etc.. Wim is Microsofts format. And the files on the boot environment do nothing else but deploy that image to the hard-disk. Errors in that process or in corrupted wims lead to corrupt installations. Reading cheap self-burned DVD media in old or unreliable drives is the No1 reason the wim can not be read as a whole.
try the USB method.
One last word : "Update" media of Vista must be installed inside activated and genuine windows XP. , 32 up to 32, 64 up to 64.
Booting from update media to install such a cheap edition to a empty drive is not supported according to Microsofts licensing terms. .
So we talk in the examples above of "Full Editions, "FPP" / "Retail", "MSDN" "technet" or "Systembuilder" isos/DVDs.
Please check what the cover of your Vista DVD reads. If it has "update" on it, this might not work .. Update as in the products name is different from "doing an upgrade"..
The OS Tweaking Guy ;) -
Saturday, March 26, 2011 6:05 PM
Hi
i hope this experiment i made will help you
error on vista 0x0000 etc..
first i boot the original vista cd.
then it will ask you if repair or clean installation...
if you decide to a clean installation format your drive and proceed.
before that it will ask to load for the driver for your rom
funny i keep on browsing on the original cd but never load the driver.
it just happen that i also have xp pro installer here and i try it on system inf folder i choosed it and it load the driver then just continue installing the xp cd ..after a few second it will ask for windows installation cd 1 i insert the vista cd and just like magic this error did not appear anymore... and im running it now just now this time thanx about this info of dvd image
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