wratho Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 Requirements: * Pre-partitioned drive with (1) >8GB NTFS partition and (1) >2GB NTFS partition * Vista Beta 1 ISO image (untouched) * (1) Blank CD-R/CD-RW Disc Instructions: * Create a temporary folder on your secondary NTFS partition (D:\ henceforth) labeled VISTA_TMP * Extract Vista ISO image (e.g. with WinRAR) into temporary directory. * Delete DRIVERS\, DOCS\, SUPPORT\ folders. * Delete SOURCES\INSTALL.WIM image. * Extract the boot sector from original ISO image and save in temporary location (e.g. Desktop) * Create an ISO with the contents of the temporary folder and import the boot sector. The title of this ISO is irrelevant. * Burn the ISO image to CD-R/CD-RW media. * Empty but do not delete the temporary folder. * Create a SOURCES\ folder inside the temporary folder. * Re-extract INSTALL.WIM and BOOT.WIM into newly created SOURCES\ folder. * Boot machine off of newly created Vista Preinstallation Environment CD, holding the CTRL key once the old Longhorn logo appears. * Within' the command prompt, execute: xcopy X:\ D:\VISTA_TMP. NOTE: X:\ in the command above is not to be changed, it's the temporary RAM disk! * After the copy process finishes, execute: D:\VISTA_TMP\SETUP.EXE * Continue the setup process as if you had booted from DVD media. Enjoy! SOURCE: http://www.extended64.com/blogs/rafael/arc...07/31/1097.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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