i cannot believe it

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:35:02 -0700, Rob wrote:

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.

Last one I burned was 5384.4 no problems, had problems before though needing a re-burn to fix.
If you have a file check hash use it, Linux autochecks DVD before installing, be nice if windows would do the same.
Try again but set your burner up for minimum speed and don't run any apps at all while burning, leave it alone until it pops out cooked.
Jonah

there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that compares a dvd with the hash file (I think you can the hash on the ms site)
I have not tried it personally
let me know if this helps

"Rob" wrote in message

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.

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there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that compares a dvd with the hash file (I think you can the hash on the ms site)
I have not tried it personally
let me know if this helps

"Rob" wrote in message Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.

Thanks Jonah,
Unfortunately I do not have the original ISO download anymore (my fault).
You didn't mean copy the already burned DVD to another, using minimum speed, did you?
"jonah" wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:35:02 -0700, Rob <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.
Last one I burned was 5384.4 no problems, had problems before though needing a re-burn to fix.
If you have a file check hash use it, Linux autochecks DVD before installing, be nice if windows would do the same.
Try again but set your burner up for minimum speed and don't run any apps at all while burning, leave it alone until it pops out cooked.
Jonah

Hi John,
I did get that cdcheck and it works well. Unfortunately, under both MD5 and CRC32 hash I am getting errors on both the DVDs I burnt. I guess my download wasn't good.
I'm a little dissappointed in the choice of Download Manager MS is using. First, it doesn't try to automatically reconnect after a disconnection. Second, and more importantly given that this is a huge download, it does not check/verify the download at all. What gives?
I'm not going to bother trying to download again. Who's to say that after going through it all over again I won't get the same corrupt ISO?
I guess I'll order my DVD by mail and hope it doesn't take till August to get here. Maybe it is a conspiracy after all... : )
Damn, I really wanted to play around with Vista tonight. Oh well.

"John Jay Smith" wrote:

there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that compares a dvd with the hash file (I think you can the hash on the ms site)
I have not tried it personally
let me know if this helps

"Rob" wrote in message Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.

1) You can try www.freedownloadmanager.org perhaps?
2) you can find the iso download with torrent, when torrent finishes it hashes and checks, and if parts are incorrect it re-downloads those parts so it will end up with a good download.
you will need your product key of course from the MS site.
a small free torrent client is www.utorrent.com
hope this helps

"Rob" wrote in message

Hi John,
I did get that cdcheck and it works well. Unfortunately, under both MD5 and CRC32 hash I am getting errors on both the DVDs I burnt. I guess my download wasn't good.
I'm a little dissappointed in the choice of Download Manager MS is using. First, it doesn't try to automatically reconnect after a disconnection. Second, and more importantly given that this is a huge download, it does not check/verify the download at all. What gives?
I'm not going to bother trying to download again. Who's to say that after going through it all over again I won't get the same corrupt ISO?
I guess I'll order my DVD by mail and hope it doesn't take till August to get here. Maybe it is a conspiracy after all... : )
Damn, I really wanted to play around with Vista tonight. Oh well.

"John Jay Smith" wrote:
there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that compares a dvd with the hash file (I think you can the hash on the ms site)
I have not tried it personally
let me know if this helps

"Rob" wrote in message Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.

Got the same message on my computer. Sorry, but you're going to have to re-download. I finally just gave up on the whole thing and went ahead and ordered it. It'll cost me and come later, but then it should work unless there's issues between Vista and my computer itself. (Not the image.) "Rob" wrote in message

Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.

Its probably a good idea but right now I'm turned off downloading it after my fiasco.
I went ahead and ordered it. It was 7 bucks plus another 7 for shipping, came to 15 something Canadian (incl. tax) but it sounds like it includes RC1 when it becomes available later this year so its not really a bad deal. I just hope they ship it right away.
Cheers.
"John Jay Smith" wrote:

1) You can try www.freedownloadmanager.org perhaps?
2) you can find the iso download with torrent, when torrent finishes it hashes and checks, and if parts are incorrect it re-downloads those parts so it will end up with a good download.
you will need your product key of course from the MS site.
a small free torrent client is www.utorrent.com
hope this helps

"Rob" wrote in message Hi John,
I did get that cdcheck and it works well. Unfortunately, under both MD5 and CRC32 hash I am getting errors on both the DVDs I burnt. I guess my download wasn't good.
I'm a little dissappointed in the choice of Download Manager MS is using. First, it doesn't try to automatically reconnect after a disconnection. Second, and more importantly given that this is a huge download, it does not check/verify the download at all. What gives?
I'm not going to bother trying to download again. Who's to say that after going through it all over again I won't get the same corrupt ISO?
I guess I'll order my DVD by mail and hope it doesn't take till August to get here. Maybe it is a conspiracy after all... : )
Damn, I really wanted to play around with Vista tonight. Oh well.

"John Jay Smith" wrote:
there is a program (free) called cdcheck (works with dvds too) that compares a dvd with the hash file (I think you can the hash on the ms site)
I have not tried it personally
let me know if this helps

"Rob" wrote in message Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.

Has anyone actually gotten this thing installed? If so how avout posting a step by step on how you did it? The rest of us could learn from it.
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"Travis King" wrote:

Got the same message on my computer. Sorry, but you're going to have to re-download. I finally just gave up on the whole thing and went ahead and ordered it. It'll cost me and come later, but then it should work unless there's issues between Vista and my computer itself. (Not the image.) "Rob" wrote in message Well I pulled an all-nighter here and finally got the download finished. I didn't have to stop and restart the download manager.
I burned the ISO to DVD (actually made two copies just incase the one dvd was bad) and made sure to write-verify the data with Nero 7. Went fine.
Well I then ran a clean install on the same machine that I downloaded the ISO file and guess what:
While 'Installing windows' - Copying Windows Files.....at 21% I get a:
Windows Setup - An error occured while copying Setup Files onto your local machine. Error Code is [80070241] and only an 'OK' button. Once that button is pressed, installation is then cancelled and the whole machine froze.
Had to do a hard shutdown and it won't load into anything, even safe mode.
So I now lost my downloaded ISO file. I only have two copies of the ISO image burnded onto DVDs. So I have no way to know whether the download was fine as I never ran a CRC check on it.
I don't know if there is a way to verify, from the burned iso image on DVD now, whether I have a good or bad copy. Any ideas?
This is disheartening to say the least. I'm now trying to download the whole thing again but I'm getting the "we are currently experiencing a high level etc..etc... Please check back later"
This is not good.