In reply to: Making a Vista installation disk. I bought a new HP with Vista Home Premium and began the back up the OS disks, only to run into a problem. The first dvd went fine, but half way though the second dvd an error message appeared and wouldn't allow me to continue. Torrent Explain Pain Handbook. I called HP and was told that I.

If your business runs Windows Vista on its computers, eventually you will need to reset your computers to factory settings. The reasons for a reset are myriad, ranging from repairing damage done to the operating system from a viral infection to trying to improve lagging performance. Since many modern computers don't ship with a reinstall disc, a reset can seem daunting. However, whenever a computer doesn't include a install CD, it usually has a partition with reinstallation data instead.

Starting reinstallation varies from one manufacturer to the next, but invariably starts while booting the computer.

About this setence in this page: “Sadly Microsoft never seemed to release these files with Service Pack 2 integrated so that has to be installed manually after you install Vista.” This was only true when obtaining the Vista setup files from Digital River. However, Microsoft DID release the Vista ISO images already slipstreamed/integrated with SP2 only to MSDN/Technet subscribers. Here are two of the Vista SP2 ISO image files from MSDN/Technet: en_windows_vista_sp2_x64_dvd_342267.iso – SHA1: AAEE3C04533899F9F8C4AE0C4250EF5FAFBE29A3 (released 5/11/2009, file size 3.6Gb) en_windows_vista_with_sp2_x86_dvd_342266.iso – SHA1: 25AD9A776503E6A583BEC07879DBCC5DFD20CD6E (released 5/11/2009, file size 3.1Gb) These ISOs are AIO (all-in-one), meaing they contain multiple editions of Windows Vista. The product key entered during setup determines what edition of Vista gets installed. At the end of your article you state: “Unfortunately, Service Pack 2 can be integrated but it’s a lengthy process and actually involves installing Vista and then SP2, and re-imaging back to DVD.” Are you referring to actually installing the newly-created (w/SP1) disk on a system and then updating with the SP2 update (which I do have) and then creating a second and newly-updated.iso image which can be used to burn an updated Vista install disk (as you stated,”re-imaging back to DVD”)? If so, how is that accomplished from an installed OS? Sorry for my ignorance.

“Back “in the day” I did slipstream an XP install to it’s latest iteration so I’m a bit familiar not much, but a bit. Thanks for this info! Battleship Tamil Dubbed Movies. This is a very useful page, thank you for keeping it maintained.

Unfortunately I’m having a problem successfully getting the install.wim for Vista32, the download keeps failing at ~2GB, but not always the same amount. This is with Firefox. I’ve tried two other web.archive.org snapshots from 2014 as well as the link you give, neither are working for me. I’m trying again with Free Download Manager to see if that helps. Wxpvol En Iso Serial Killers.

In case it doesn’t, do you have any ideas? I need to create an install DVD to reinstall VistaHP on a 32bit laptop. Will, very sorry to read that you had problems with this! I just got the 2.59GB file from the provided link above in about 38 minutes using a public library internet access PC. That doesn’t seem particularly slow to me, so I’m sorry to say I think it’s just you experiencing this problem.

However, I have not yet checked the Hashes, so I do not know if the file integrity is intact. If I get a failed checksum on this file I will post back and let you know in about a week. In the mean time, may I suggest that you try a public library PC just as I have, you may have better luck! I am getting the 3.3GB (64Bit) file right now from the link provided above and it is going very S-L-O-W-L-Y!!! The browser reports the download has “21 hours left”, at the previous download rate of speed for the 32Bit file I would have expected around 1 hour maximum. I think this may just be a case of getting on “the archive” when it is not in great demand or overtaxed. I still have not checked the previous download hashes but I will post back here and let you know about that in a week or so.

Hi Will, I didn’t notice your post was from 7 months ago, oops!!! If you are still returning here to read (some 7 or more months later) I have to tell you that I have now successfully got the 6 files from the archive and all the SHA1 hashes matched correctly. So I did not share your bad experience, sorry to say it was just you. Although the largest file was going to take me 21 hours on my first attempt, I obviously could not wait that length of time so cancelled it and restarted it afresh on another day, it then came through in about 30 minutes instead!