instaling of 64bit trail from MS

[DisabledTrucker]

Go to ImgBurn's website and get ImgBurn, put your DVD/CD in your burner and point it to the ISO file you downloaded from M$, (redownload a new copy to make sure you're not using a corrupted file.) Click on the |> arrow and then wait for it to get done burning your DVD/CD.

Leave that DVD/CD in your optical drive and reboot, it should then start up and install just fine. If you need the F6 Drivers, then make sure that floppy is in your floppy drive prior to rebooting.

I reccomend taking your two HDD's and seperating them making each one it's own raid-0 drive, if your going to dual boot, even if your not as you can always extend the partition across the second drive later. Using the single HDD install xp32 on it, then install xp64 on the second drive, or just install xp64 on the first one if your not dual-booting. This way if one of the Raid-0 drives fails your not going to lose them both. Although I don't reccomend using Raid-0 at all, instead use the SATA controller as a non-raid controller by turning off the raid in your bios, then you wont have a need for the raid drivers at all.

I've always used DVDDecrypter/ImgBurn to do my ISO burning and never have had a problem with DVD/CD's burnt using them, as that's their only function to work with ISO files. ImgBurn doesn't have the ripping features that DVDDecrypter has is it's only difference, it's also updated to do ISO burning to newer drives and has more features that aren't in DVDDecrypter, otherwise it's basically the same software, by the same person. Best part of it it's donationware, in that if you like it, he'd like to get at least $2 for his work from you, if you can afford it. Not that it's required to use it.