autorun fails microsoft issued vista beta 2 dvd

The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

if your bios set to boot freom DVD drive. might be the problem.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"wrtbd" wrote in message The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

Thanks for your response. I do not understand what you are asking. My bios is set up to do the cascading boot process, i.e. disk0, cdrom, floppy. I don't know of another way to boot. Your further suggestions are very welcome.
Further detail about the Autorun issue: When I double-click on Setup.exe in the root directory of the Beta 2 DVD, I get the informative message : "Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application."
"mikeyhsd" wrote:

if your bios set to boot freom DVD drive. might be the problem.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"wrtbd" wrote in message The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

I have had this problem as well and can not seem to find out why it does not boot from the dvd, i set my bois to boot from dvd but still will not do and as your self can only do clean install if find out why i will post
"wrtbd" wrote:

The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

Dumb question.
are you sure you're using the 32-bit Beta 2 DVD?
That's a normal error message if you try to run setup.exe from the 64-bit Vista DVD from within Windows.
"wrtbd" wrote in message

Thanks for your response. I do not understand what you are asking. My bios is set up to do the cascading boot process, i.e. disk0, cdrom, floppy. I don't know of another way to boot. Your further suggestions are very welcome.
Further detail about the Autorun issue: When I double-click on Setup.exe in the root directory of the Beta 2 DVD, I get the informative message : "Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application."
"mikeyhsd" wrote:
if your bios set to boot freom DVD drive. might be the problem.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"wrtbd" wrote in message The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

I got the Vista CD in the mail and i do not have thisproblem with the CD booting
"John" wrote:

I have had this problem as well and can not seem to find out why it does not boot from the dvd, i set my bois to boot from dvd but still will not do and as your self can only do clean install if find out why i will post
"wrtbd" wrote:
The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

Thanks for your interest in this issue. Yes, I am using the 32-bit Beta DVD. I have the same issue with the 64-bit Beta DVD. If you have further suggestions, I am happy to address them.
"HDRDTD" wrote:

Dumb question.
are you sure you're using the 32-bit Beta 2 DVD?
That's a normal error message if you try to run setup.exe from the 64-bit Vista DVD from within Windows.
"wrtbd" wrote in message Thanks for your response. I do not understand what you are asking. My bios is set up to do the cascading boot process, i.e. disk0, cdrom, floppy. I don't know of another way to boot. Your further suggestions are very welcome.
Further detail about the Autorun issue: When I double-click on Setup.exe in the root directory of the Beta 2 DVD, I get the informative message : "Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application."
"mikeyhsd" wrote:
if your bios set to boot freom DVD drive. might be the problem.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"wrtbd" wrote in message The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

change it so that the CD/DVD is first in boot sequence.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"wrtbd" wrote in message Thanks for your response. I do not understand what you are asking. My bios is set up to do the cascading boot process, i.e. disk0, cdrom, floppy. I don't know of another way to boot. Your further suggestions are very welcome.
Further detail about the Autorun issue: When I double-click on Setup.exe in the root directory of the Beta 2 DVD, I get the informative message : "Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application."
"mikeyhsd" wrote:

if your bios set to boot freom DVD drive. might be the problem.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"wrtbd" wrote in message The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

Partial solution: I entirely removed NAV from the system. 'Disabling' NAV apparently was not enough. I also copied the entire DVD to a new partition and ran 'Setup.exe' from there. This action installed the Vista Beta, although I still cannot boot to VIsta because of a BSOD referring to one of the hard drives.
"wrtbd" wrote:

The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

I had the same problem. I have 2 cdroms and in the bios, they had the master and slave mixed up. I switched the slave to the master and master to slave and no more problems.
"wrtbd" wrote:

Thanks for your response. I do not understand what you are asking. My bios is set up to do the cascading boot process, i.e. disk0, cdrom, floppy. I don't know of another way to boot. Your further suggestions are very welcome.
Further detail about the Autorun issue: When I double-click on Setup.exe in the root directory of the Beta 2 DVD, I get the informative message : "Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application."
"mikeyhsd" wrote:
if your bios set to boot freom DVD drive. might be the problem.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"wrtbd" wrote in message The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?

I had a similar problem with my DVD as well. I was using the 32 bit (x86) DVD in WinXP. I kept getting the error message that the autorun.dll "/sources/autorun.dll" was invalid or corrupt when I tried to run the DVD in XP. I got the same error message when executing the setup.exe in the root directory. When I ran the setup.exe in the /sources directory, it ran but then eventually timed out saying that it could not copy the files to the C drive. I have over 80GB free on C so I know it wasn't a space issue.
When I booted from the DVD the install went fine, but I have a problem with the Dlink wireless card, but thats another thread.
"wrtbd" wrote:

The Microsoft-issued Vista Beta 2 DVD does not run when inserted into the player under WinXP for an upgrade installation. I can boot from the DVD and enter the installation process, but it will only allow me to do a 'clean' install - not an upgrade. Are others experiencing this failure right out of the box?