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The Download for vista beta II is a DVD .iso. The iso when burned to a DVD would be bootable, so could I put the iso on a slave hard drive, boot from it, and load vista to my primary master drive? If so would special software be required to put the iso on the drive or could I just copy it and boot from the iso?

"JH" wrote in message

The Download for vista beta II is a DVD .iso. The iso when burned to a DVD would be bootable, so could I put the iso on a slave hard drive, boot from it, and load vista to my primary master drive? If so would special software be required to put the iso on the drive or could I just copy it and boot from the iso?

The files contained in the .iso file must be "extracted" before they can be used. If you cannot burn them to a DVD, then you can extract them to another hard drive using an ISO utility.
Here are a couple:
ISO Buster 1.5 http://downloads.vnunet.com/download/burning/iso+buster/_1143.html
WinImage http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/winimage.htm
-- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Hello; The "downloaded Vista ISO" is an IMAGE FILE. To use it, it has to be extracted to a DVD using a Program (Seems Nero works Best for that). After it is extracted it is burnt to DVD (Using Image Burning Software) then it will be a usable install DVD.
"JH" wrote in message

The Download for vista beta II is a DVD .iso. The iso when burned to a DVD would be bootable, so could I put the iso on a slave hard drive, boot from it, and load vista to my primary master drive? If so would special software be required to put the iso on the drive or could I just copy it and boot from the iso?

DO NOT FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF LS(V)! IT IS WRONG ADVICE!!
Do not unzip the file in any way! Do not extract files from the .ISO with any program! Burn the ..ISO image to a disk. Since it is a ISO, there should be an option in your Burning utility for burning images to a CD.
Check the following link for instructions about how to burn an ISO: http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm
LS (V) wrote:

Hello; The "downloaded Vista ISO" is an IMAGE FILE. To use it, it has to be extracted to a DVD using a Program (Seems Nero works Best for that). After it is extracted it is burnt to DVD (Using Image Burning Software) then it will be a usable install DVD.
"JH" wrote in message The Download for vista beta II is a DVD .iso. The iso when burned to a DVD would be bootable, so could I put the iso on a slave hard drive, boot from it, and load vista to my primary master drive? If so would special software be required to put the iso on the drive or could I just copy it and boot from the iso?