Win XP

[glen]

Somehow wxp_pro_rc1.iso ended up on my machine.
How do I check the integrity of the file? How do you use or what exactly is crc?
After burning it to disc, it goes 3/4 of the way through the install, then says some files are missing...heck...now what?

 

[Alienwho]

Delete before the evil microsoft overlords hunt you down like a dog.

 

[piku]

I hate it when huge files like that end up on my computer. So pesky...

 

[Paulson]

Well, mistake # 1 is posting this

 

[glen]

<< Delete before the evil microsoft overlords hunt you down like a dog. >>


The irony is, I have the disk for all my MP3's and even paid for the license to my copy of PKzip.
I would buy XP, but it is nto for sale yet.
so....
1. How do I check the integrity of the file?
2. How do you use or what exactly is crc?

After burning it to disc, it goes 3/4 of the way through the install, then says some files are missing...heck...now what?

 

[glen]

<< Well, mistake # 1 is posting this >>


For the sake of this forum, this is all hypothitical ..
And, even in the hypothetical, it is a licensed copy throuhg the best testing program.

For the &quot;sake&quot; of this forum, I better not see any links or instructions in this thread about where to get this &quot;hypothetical&quot; .iso file.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[Paulson]

lol...

Don't confuse me now glen...

 

[UberNeuman]

WinXP = waste of time.

 

[JayPatel]

<< &quot;Somehow wxp_pro_rc1.iso ended up on my machine.&quot; >>

Gee i swear i saw u talked about ur D/L rates for this file in that other thread about this course im hypothetically speaking as well

 

[glen]

<< For the &quot;sake&quot; of this forum, I better not see any links or instructions in this thread about where to get this &quot;hypothetical&quot; .iso file. >>



NP.

All I want to know is how to check the integrity of a file after it has been downloaded and after it has been burned.

anyone?

 

[Paulson]

If it works it works, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

 

[glen]

<< If it works it works, if it doesn't, it doesn't. >>


Surely there is a way to check the integrity a DL and of a burn.

 

[Siva]

i happened to get the same file on my harddrive... i dunno how! :Q

I burned it out of &quot;curiosity&quot; and ran it, just to see what it did... It got an error copying files liek 20% through, it stopped copying, and now it works fine. WTF, but hey, as long as it works

 

[Sugadaddy]

What size is it?

 

[Russ]

glen,

I think the software verifies the integrity of the burn as it's working. I know that whenever I've had a problem with a corrupted Linux .iso, Adaptec 4.0 has stopped the burn and barfed up an error.

Whenever it has gone all the way through, the CD has always worked.

Russ, NCNE

 

[glen]

It happened once.
I re-burned and it happened again.
Maybe I will just try it a few more times.

 

[Freejack2]

Geez you could &quot;hypothetically&quot; buy this from Microsoft for $9.95. They are offering this as a public beta.
Go here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/preview/order.asp

 

[Mungla]

You could have paid $10 several months ago to be a beta tester. Just for the sake of it, I paid the money and became a beta tester. M$'s download servers for RC1 are heavily congested, so I can't say that I've tested it yet.

CRC is a way to test for a files integrity. You can download programs that check an .iso file, but you have to have a .crc file I believe.


That's all I'm saying, I hope I haven't helped anyone with this &quot;hypothetical&quot; iso file.

 

[Siva]

hell that seems worth the money. I might actually pay

 

[Wedesdo]

it works... try reburning it OR use IsoBuster to extract and INSTALL IT FROM THE HARDDRIVE...

 

[rc5]

This is insane. Why must you pay for beta testing an unfinished product?
So what's the next step? will we have to pay for knowing what new &quot;features&quot; the next version of Windows will add?

 

[Sugadaddy]

Check if its size is: 493 MB (517,349,376 bytes)

Burning it with Nero didn't work for me. It completed the burn, but it would give errors when installing it. (did this with 3 versions of XP) I tried burning the .ISO with Fireburner, which is much better than Nero for these files, and it worked flawlessly...

 

[glen]

If I look under properties, it says:
489MB (513,177,600 bytes), 513,179,648 bytes used
is that the wrong size?

 

[glen]

Is Fireburner freeware/shareware?

 

[piku]

<< This is insane. Why must you pay for beta testing an unfinished product? >>


Well it costs money to make and ship the CD's... $10 gets you two shipment of CDs, or $5 per CD. $5 for a burnt CD of something isn't a bad price I dont think...