downloading vista x64 iso vista x86 installation

I haven't seen this anywhere, so either no one else is having a problem, or no one else has tried it. Currently 5 times so far i have tried to download the 64bit version iso. 2 times using direct download, and 3 times using the akaida manager. What is strange is that the download process seems to run normally.. I wait about 5 hours watching the meter, the download completes, and then I can't find the file. I spent 3 hours last night just searching the harddrive for any temp file or anything. The only thing I found was a link for the location where i had told it to save, which was empty, and clicking on the link brings up the file not found dialog.
Is there something in particular that windows defender does not like about iso files. Is disk quota set up by default killing the file copy from temp and then deleting the temp file on downloader close? Could there be something inherint in indexing that is not listing this file, and thus not making it available to the system?
All i can say is that i really mis searching by file size.

There has been some discussion on this topic here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general&tid=b1fa8788-02bd-4d0d-a882-9a8ce13912fa&cat=en_us_9F280F8D-E6BF-F78C-234A-416CF09D5DC5&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1
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"dfeifer" wrote in message

I haven't seen this anywhere, so either no one else is having a problem, or no one else has tried it. Currently 5 times so far i have tried to download the 64bit version iso. 2 times using direct download, and 3 times using the akaida manager. What is strange is that the download process seems to run normally.. I wait about 5 hours watching the meter, the download completes, and then I can't find the file. I spent 3 hours last night just searching the harddrive for any temp file or anything. The only thing I found was a link for the location where i had told it to save, which was empty, and clicking on the link brings up the file not found dialog.
Is there something in particular that windows defender does not like about iso files. Is disk quota set up by default killing the file copy from temp and then deleting the temp file on downloader close? Could there be something inherint in indexing that is not listing this file, and thus not making it available to the system?
All i can say is that i really mis searching by file size.

exact same problem except 10 hours meter watching,4hours searching ,reason for downloading was/is running x86 ver on my targa laptop which uses a mobile amd athlon64 3000+ and performance check gives my pc a rating of 1 which i suspect is down to the processor as all other checks range from 3 to5.4 tried installing the driver for x64 processor but gives an error as driver not able to run on 32bit o/s would appreciate any advice on this as quite impressed with beta 2 but not doing it justice with my processor not running to full potential
"dfeifer" wrote:

I haven't seen this anywhere, so either no one else is having a problem, or no one else has tried it. Currently 5 times so far i have tried to download the 64bit version iso. 2 times using direct download, and 3 times using the akaida manager. What is strange is that the download process seems to run normally.. I wait about 5 hours watching the meter, the download completes, and then I can't find the file. I spent 3 hours last night just searching the harddrive for any temp file or anything. The only thing I found was a link for the location where i had told it to save, which was empty, and clicking on the link brings up the file not found dialog.
Is there something in particular that windows defender does not like about iso files. Is disk quota set up by default killing the file copy from temp and then deleting the temp file on downloader close? Could there be something inherint in indexing that is not listing this file, and thus not making it available to the system?
All i can say is that i really mis searching by file size.

exact same problem except 10 hours meter watching,4hours searching ,reason for downloading was/is running x86 ver on my targa laptop which uses a mobile amd athlon64 3000+ and performance check gives my pc a rating of 1 which i suspect is down to the processor as all other checks range from 3 to5.4 tried installing the driver for x64 processor but gives an error as driver not able to run on 32bit o/s would appreciate any advice on this as quite impressed with beta 2 but not doing it justice with my processor not running to full potential .
"dfeifer" wrote:

I haven't seen this anywhere, so either no one else is having a problem, or no one else has tried it. Currently 5 times so far i have tried to download the 64bit version iso. 2 times using direct download, and 3 times using the akaida manager. What is strange is that the download process seems to run normally.. I wait about 5 hours watching the meter, the download completes, and then I can't find the file. I spent 3 hours last night just searching the harddrive for any temp file or anything. The only thing I found was a link for the location where i had told it to save, which was empty, and clicking on the link brings up the file not found dialog.
Is there something in particular that windows defender does not like about iso files. Is disk quota set up by default killing the file copy from temp and then deleting the temp file on downloader close? Could there be something inherint in indexing that is not listing this file, and thus not making it available to the system?
All i can say is that i really mis searching by file size.

To me it sounds like you are trying to download the 64bit version of the driver and not the 32 bit version. You shouldn't really need a driver at all for it, Mine installed fine with the core dirvers. You perhaps may have a chipset driver that is not installed correctly and not working? Currently with my system I have an over all rating of 3.4 and this is only because of my 128 meg x300 ati based video card. when I finally get that x1900xtx I should be over 4... if the new dx3d10 video cards dont come out by the time i can afford one that is..
"gaz" wrote:

exact same problem except 10 hours meter watching,4hours searching ,reason for downloading was/is running x86 ver on my targa laptop which uses a mobile amd athlon64 3000+ and performance check gives my pc a rating of 1 which i suspect is down to the processor as all other checks range from 3 to5.4 tried installing the driver for x64 processor but gives an error as driver not able to run on 32bit o/s would appreciate any advice on this as quite impressed with beta 2 but not doing it justice with my processor not running to full potential .
"dfeifer" wrote:
I haven't seen this anywhere, so either no one else is having a problem, or no one else has tried it. Currently 5 times so far i have tried to download the 64bit version iso. 2 times using direct download, and 3 times using the akaida manager. What is strange is that the download process seems to run normally.. I wait about 5 hours watching the meter, the download completes, and then I can't find the file. I spent 3 hours last night just searching the harddrive for any temp file or anything. The only thing I found was a link for the location where i had told it to save, which was empty, and clicking on the link brings up the file not found dialog.
Is there something in particular that windows defender does not like about iso files. Is disk quota set up by default killing the file copy from temp and then deleting the temp file on downloader close? Could there be something inherint in indexing that is not listing this file, and thus not making it available to the system?
All i can say is that i really mis searching by file size.

There should be no problem downloading Vista x64 on a XP x86 system. The same with burning the dvd. What you cannot do is install Vista x64 from the XP x86 desktop (you can from the XP x64 desktop, however).
To install Vista x64 on a 64-bit capable system running XP x86 you must boot the computer with the dvd.
"dfeifer" wrote in message

To me it sounds like you are trying to download the 64bit version of the driver and not the 32 bit version. You shouldn't really need a driver at all for it, Mine installed fine with the core dirvers. You perhaps may have a chipset driver that is not installed correctly and not working? Currently with my system I have an over all rating of 3.4 and this is only because of my 128 meg x300 ati based video card. when I finally get that x1900xtx I should be over 4... if the new dx3d10 video cards dont come out by the time i can afford one that is..
"gaz" wrote:
exact same problem except 10 hours meter watching,4hours searching ,reason for downloading was/is running x86 ver on my targa laptop which uses a mobile amd athlon64 3000+ and performance check gives my pc a rating of 1 which i suspect is down to the processor as all other checks range from 3 to5.4 tried installing the driver for x64 processor but gives an error as driver not able to run on 32bit o/s would appreciate any advice on this as quite impressed with beta 2 but not doing it justice with my processor not running to full potential .
"dfeifer" wrote:
I haven't seen this anywhere, so either no one else is having a problem, or no one else has tried it. Currently 5 times so far i have tried to download the 64bit version iso. 2 times using direct download, and 3 times using the akaida manager. What is strange is that the download process seems to run normally.. I wait about 5 hours watching the meter, the download completes, and then I can't find the file. I spent 3 hours last night just searching the harddrive for any temp file or anything. The only thing I found was a link for the location where i had told it to save, which was empty, and clicking on the link brings up the file not found dialog.
Is there something in particular that windows defender does not like about iso files. Is disk quota set up by default killing the file copy from temp and then deleting the temp file on downloader close? Could there be something inherint in indexing that is not listing this file, and thus not making it available to the system?
All i can say is that i really mis searching by file size.

You missed my header, I was trying to download this file from within VISTA x86 not xp. My problem ended up being a permissions problem, which I worked around by running internet explorer as administrator. Burned it thru vista this morning before work using nero burning rom 6.6 . The suggestion of deactivating the option to check file downloads to see if they are signed or not, did not work.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

There should be no problem downloading Vista x64 on a XP x86 system. The same with burning the dvd. What you cannot do is install Vista x64 from the XP x86 desktop (you can from the XP x64 desktop, however).
To install Vista x64 on a 64-bit capable system running XP x86 you must boot the computer with the dvd.
"dfeifer" wrote in message To me it sounds like you are trying to download the 64bit version of the driver and not the 32 bit version. You shouldn't really need a driver at all for it, Mine installed fine with the core dirvers. You perhaps may have a chipset driver that is not installed correctly and not working? Currently with my system I have an over all rating of 3.4 and this is only because of my 128 meg x300 ati based video card. when I finally get that x1900xtx I should be over 4... if the new dx3d10 video cards dont come out by the time i can afford one that is..
"gaz" wrote:
exact same problem except 10 hours meter watching,4hours searching ,reason for downloading was/is running x86 ver on my targa laptop which uses a mobile amd athlon64 3000+ and performance check gives my pc a rating of 1 which i suspect is down to the processor as all other checks range from 3 to5.4 tried installing the driver for x64 processor but gives an error as driver not able to run on 32bit o/s would appreciate any advice on this as quite impressed with beta 2 but not doing it justice with my processor not running to full potential .
"dfeifer" wrote:
I haven't seen this anywhere, so either no one else is having a problem, or no one else has tried it. Currently 5 times so far i have tried to download the 64bit version iso. 2 times using direct download, and 3 times using the akaida manager. What is strange is that the download process seems to run normally.. I wait about 5 hours watching the meter, the download completes, and then I can't find the file. I spent 3 hours last night just searching the harddrive for any temp file or anything. The only thing I found was a link for the location where i had told it to save, which was empty, and clicking on the link brings up the file not found dialog.
Is there something in particular that windows defender does not like about iso files. Is disk quota set up by default killing the file copy from temp and then deleting the temp file on downloader close? Could there be something inherint in indexing that is not listing this file, and thus not making it available to the system?
All i can say is that i really mis searching by file size.

In article , dfeifer@discussions.microsoft.com says...

You missed my header, I was trying to download this file from within VISTA x86 not xp. My problem ended up being a permissions problem, which I worked around by running internet explorer as administrator. Burned it thru vista this morning before work using nero burning rom 6.6 . The suggestion of deactivating the option to check file downloads to see if they are signed or not, did not work.
I had the exact same problem trying to download the X64 version from X86

Vista Beta 2. Downloaded with no problem but I never could find the file. I was only able to see it by attempting a second download and deleting it in the download manager save dialog box.
Glad you figured out the problem. Maybe I'll download it again just to have the X64 version available. Not sure I'll install it because of less driver availability. Plus the fact that the X86 version is running great on my hardware and the X64 version would provide no real additional benefit.