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Installing VISTA without a DVD drive?

Is it possible?

July 30, 2005 10:53:31 AM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
I wonder if anyone is already using Windows Vista. How about it?
I've read reviews and everything else about it.

I've already downloaded it but I have the following doubt: Is it possible to install the OS without a DVD Drive on your PC? I heard I can emulate it using a certain programa, but I wonder how it will be when I have to boot the Vista installer when I restart the pc?

Is it possible to install Windows Vista without a DVD drive?
Have in mind that I already have the iso dvd file here on my hd.

Thanks a lot
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Reply #1 July 30, 2005 11:11:14 AM
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You could always wait to purchase a legal copy....it'll probably even be on CDs, too....
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Reply #2 July 30, 2005 11:13:24 AM
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Google for Daemon Tools, and use it to install your ISO file as a virtual drive. I would think you'd be able to install it from that, but since the installer reboots during the install (by design), I'm not so sure.

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Reply #3 July 30, 2005 11:14:50 AM
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You could always wait to purchase a legal copy....


How do you know he doesn't have a legal copy?

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Reply #4 July 30, 2005 11:16:56 AM
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How do you know he doesn't have a legal copy?

Call it a hunch....

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Reply #5 July 30, 2005 11:26:22 AM
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Use virtual PC and install it that way. You still have to unpack the iso image and place the files in a directory.
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Reply #6 July 30, 2005 11:50:37 AM
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although, you may find you want a dvd drive in the future and they're really cheap. Just a thought that you might aswell buy one.
I found an internal ide drive that reads dvds for only £18!!!
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Reply #7 July 30, 2005 12:51:01 PM
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How do you know he doesn't have a legal copy?


Call it a hunch....


How nice of you to assume someone's guilty, based on a hunch.

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Reply #8 July 30, 2005 2:55:10 PM
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Have in mind that I already have the iso dvd file here on my hd




How else could she/he have gotten ahold of that file? Hmmmmmm
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Reply #9 July 30, 2005 4:49:12 PM
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The same way all the other legal downloaders got it.
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Reply #10 July 30, 2005 5:40:31 PM
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The same way all the other legal downloaders got it."


The problem is this is a closed beta. I assume this beta is available to MSDN developers as others have been in the past, but honestly someone who would have legitimate access to it would know how to install it, wouldn't they? Someone who revieved the legitimate copy would know the requirements to install it. Someone who paid hundreds of dollars for an MSDN membership probably wouldn't find it too bothersome to drop 40 bucks for a DVD drive.

More likely, this is the copy that was leaked the day after the beta went live. Why anyone would want to use it, I have no idea. It's my understanding that most of the features, many which make the OS relatively usable, aren't even included in it yet.

Regardless, I'm with Jafo in that someone who was legitimately granted the right to the beta wouldn't be here asking how to install it.
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Reply #11 July 30, 2005 8:39:48 PM
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Yep...what Baker said....
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Reply #12 July 30, 2005 9:37:45 PM
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Who wants a Beta? Its full of bugs and such...
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Reply #13 July 30, 2005 11:36:36 PM
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Lots of ODNT subscribers want betas.

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Reply #14 July 31, 2005 4:50:29 AM
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To quote Microsoft:
"Minimum system requirements will not be known until summer 2006 at the earliest. However, these guidelines provide useful estimates:

512 megabytes (MB) or more of RAM
A dedicated graphics card with DirectX® 9.0 support
A modern, Intel Pentium- or AMD Athlon-based PC."

Who has that and no DVD ROM?
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Reply #15 July 31, 2005 4:55:56 AM
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To be honest, I didn't up until a month or so ago. Never really had the need. Once I realized I hadn't backed up my server since 2002, and counted how many CDs it was going to take, I opted-in, lol...

P.S. I like the glider on your icon.
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Reply #16 July 31, 2005 7:43:52 AM
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1. Download and install Nero (the latest edition). Pireted copy or not is up to you.
2. Start the "nero Smartstart".
3. Chose "emulate an image".
4. Brows for your desired "ISO" file.
5. install windows Vista in a formated partition (just an advice).
6. Enjoy. and no need at all to buy or use a DVD drive.
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Reply #17 July 31, 2005 8:21:55 AM
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Hmmm, Nero 6.6: $69-$90 (depending on where purchased)
DVD ROM drive: as little as $39
btw, I just picked up a Samsung dual-layer 16X DVD burner for $49. My money is tight these days, but I couldn't pass for that price.
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Reply #18 July 31, 2005 9:37:51 AM
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As I said earlier, Daemon Tools will allow you to mount an ISO image as a virtual drive, and it's free. No need to spend $69 on Nero.

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Reply #19 July 31, 2005 10:16:11 AM
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Hmmm, Nero 6.6: $69-$90 (depending on where purchased)
DVD ROM drive: as little as $39
btw, I just picked up a Samsung dual-layer 16X DVD burner for $49. My money is tight these days, but I couldn't pass for that price.


I just picked up a DVD-ROM for $20 bucks and a DVD-RW Dual Layer Drive for $50 bucks at a electronics store called Fry's. The burner came with Nero 6 ultra.
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Reply #20 July 31, 2005 10:56:36 AM
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The burner came with Nero 6 ultra.


I forgot about that, mine came with Nero Express bundle. I haven't installed the drived yet, so I hadn't even looked at what was on the CD that came with it.
Got mine at Microcenter. No Fry's in Cincinnati.
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Reply #21 March 4, 2006 5:18:58 PM
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If you downloaded your Vista from some P2P network, then i suggest you think twice before even starting the installation...
Vista Installation ISO is about 2GB (depending if it is Beta 1 or 2 but both of them are above GB) and so puting it on a um... CD, well, i wouldn't try it. Buy a DVD-Burner and have fun, or opposite.
if you want to download Vista from P2P so bad then just wait for Microsoft to release it. I promise you, no guarantee you that P2P's will be full of it.
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Reply #22 March 4, 2006 7:55:13 PM
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512 megabytes (MB) or more of RAM
A dedicated graphics card with DirectX® 9.0 support
A modern, Intel Pentium- or AMD Athlon-based PC."

Who has that and no DVD ROM?

That would be me.....

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Reply #23 March 4, 2006 7:59:55 PM
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Reply #24 March 4, 2006 10:17:36 PM
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I eat betas for breakfast! Arrrrh!

How do you know he doesn't have a legal copy?

Well, you can't knwo for sure. But it would seem very odd for someone to ask such a cuestion here and not at the Microsoft newsgroups.
And also as it has been said before, it's an closed beta for members of special MSDN subscribers which most likely would know how to perform such a task.
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Reply #25 March 4, 2006 10:30:39 PM
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And also as it has been said before, it's an closed beta for members of special MSDN subscribers which most likely would know how to perform such a task.

Vista is available to people outside of MSDN subscribers.

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