Maybe the boot sector isn't present on your backup. I had slipstreamed SP2 into my OEM XP installation disc but the boot sector was no longer present. It was an easy fix but I don't know right of what you need. I forget lol its been a long time.

Okay so what exactly is the recovery disc supposed to do? Will it fix iso?

Dude. You act like downloading stuff is just something simple. If only it was that way for me. I, unlike others, am cursed with a fate that I shall never be blessed with the heavenly speeds you have.... Besides this copy is a good copy. Just like others i've had. Yet for all of them I get the same message. Ive tried over 3 different copies.

Last edited by Mr.TurnSignal (2008-11-11 03:40:36)

i do kno iv lived on a 500k line too. it would finish over night. still try to open those images into magiciso and see if bootable lights up

Ahh, so yeah, it DID work, but as I said earlier, they changed the way Vista boots.  That is a boot-strap message, so it did "BOOT" just to the message and not the SETUP because it detected an error. 

Why? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930891

have you check in magic iso (or what ever program u use) and see if the image is bootable? and if it isint u chose the option to make it bootable

dark red or light. light red mean it is if its dark it will no bootable. one way to check is open it up blank check color then load iso into it and see if went to light

Also, mick, it does not matter.  If you are making an ISO of an already bootable disc, then the copy made from the ISO should also be bootable.

IF it did not have valid a boot sector, it would just boot like there was no disc in the drive, which he said it was doing.  So, how did he get the "Windows cannot run this version of the Operating System. To install Windows please try booting from the install media."?  By running setup manually from Windows? 

AS a check, just make sure your BOOT ORDER in the BIOS has not changed.    1st device should be DVD-ROM, then HDD and so on.  I know it sounds dumb, but just check that....

Also, during boot: Do you have any USB storage devices attached? (Flash Drives, External Drives, etc.) The culprit to a problem was a USB flash drive preventing a proper boot.

Everything I have read, is non related to the DISC or ISO itself...  IF you made an ISO with the original, then it should boot as the original does.

The recovery disc is just a REPAIR console like for XP repair console.  It is not a FULL install disc; both are in the 240-268Mb range so nothing fancy...   I don't know why you are having this problem.  I downloaded my Vista from M$, it was an ISO, and when I burned it, it booted fine.  It was Vista RC1 both 32bit and 64bit versions booted, that key expired June 2007.   Have you seen if it would boot on someone else's machine, or a LapTop?

Mr.TurnSignal wrote:

I got it working. My dvd drive was like set to the wrong thing in my Bios. It wasnt the boot order. Its hard to explain but Its taken care of.

Yeah see, it's always something stupid huh?  I know they boot, so that's why I said to look into the bios setting for boot order, but you found something else, which is cool...