Recent content by Karkas

While I did try it as .IMG once, the rest of my attempts have been to simply burn the .ISO or extract the .ISO to it's individual files and burn those... I'm skeptical it's the media it's a verbatim DVD-r which is 2nd only to TY

OK, finally got a chance to try installing win7 again. I tried booting from USB flash drive and no go. 1st I extracted the files from 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.iso to the drive and tried to boot.... got some message like no boot media blah blah blah. So then I...

yes, I'm running 32 bit xp... I'll have to give the bootable USB a try. Never done it before... I guess just extract the files from the .ISO to my thumb drive, change bios boot order?

Yes, i have a core 2 quad (specs above).... i can run 64bit both burns were at 4x

Oh, you were clear... I had the files already extracted to another DVD and on my desktop with 1 of my previous DLs. I just extracted the genuine microsoft .iso to my desktop using winRAR and got the same result ("not a valid win32 application"). I've gotta get to bed, if anyone can think of...

When I insert the disk in XP and allow it to auto run it errors and tells me to boot from it to install. I try to run setup.exe and it errors and tells me its not a valid win32 application (it tells me this if I try to launch from the DVD or my desktop).

This is intended as a dual boot, but this darn thing jsut wont boot from the DVD to install... I looked for another with the same problem, but it seems like no one has gone as far as I have. I have burned 2 different .iso's from different DL sources(1 was microsoft), tried changing to a .img...