Hey I'm new to this forum and hoping you can help. I managed to get my hands on Vista Beta Build 5308. First off I had problems burning it - I used Nero 7 and choose ISO format but it said as it is over 2 gig to use UDF instead. So I burnt it as that but when it finished all it had done is put the **.ISO on the DVD. Is this right? I didn't think so, so I extracted the image and burnt as normal files, which worked as the setup screen came up. I then went to install it on a spare machine (Very old - 500MHz Celeron, 256 MB RAM). I found a old HD and stuck it in put in the DVD and rebooted. It did the usual press any key to boot DVD and then I got a black screen with a gray loading bar at the bottom. when the bar completed it when black for a second and then I got a blue screen with white writing telling to the Windows had been stopped due to a error and a load of code. I retried a couple of times but saw it was working so I formatted and installed XP Pro. I then put in DVD and and started the setup but when it asked for were to install it said there was enough room on HD (its only a spare 8 gig). I put in a secondary hard drive (10 gig) in and tried again. This time it worked. I left it going and went off for a while. When I came back it must have restarted and I had a screen asking if I wanted to boot Pre-Longhorn or setup. I choose setup and it now came up with errors about "winload.exe" missing. If I choose Pre-Longhorn it just starts XP. What do I do now? Is it the DVD, the PC or have I done something wrong? I desperately want to get Vista going and any advice anyone could give would be great. Thanks, Ford-p P.S. I can get more accurate errors if needed.
