Windows Vista Download link ***HERE*** Now With Product Key

[fbrdphreak]

I think I sent you the wrong MD5 Hold on

 

[Harsh3090416]

How do you restore it back to windows xp i mean when the trial period is finish what do u do is there a restore point or something like that before installing windows vista ??

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Harsh3090416
How do you restore it back to windows xp i mean when the trial period is finish what do u do is there a restore point or something like that before installing windows vista ??

To my knowledge its not a trial, you get the whole thing.

I would recommend you don't install it.

 

[angrynerdrock]

when the beta period is over, will microsoft offer vista free, or at a discounted price for the beta testers? I know when my brother beta tested for XP and ME he got the final versions free from ms

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: angrynerdrock
when the beta period is over, will microsoft offer vista free, or at a discounted price for the beta testers? I know when my brother beta tested for XP and ME he got the final versions free from ms

If you were a Beta tester, probly; but this is a public beta, so no one using these will get free anything.

 

[Cloud28]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan

Originally posted by: hardcandy2
I would not depend on it as a working OS, a separate machine is best. Not sure what installing it as a dual boot will do to the bootloader or MBR.

A separate machine is always ideal. In my case, I am using an old 80GB hard drive on a spare IDE port with my primary OS drive unplugged for safety. This gives a quick way to switch back to XP, with the only work being swapping a few cables (compared to sliding the office chair from one computer to another, it's only slightly worse).

You could always do a fixmbr in the recovery console if something goes wrong!

 

[angrynerdrock]

figured that'd be the case..will the beta stop working after the final is released?

 

[plonk420]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
To my knowledge its not a trial, you get the whole thing.

yeah, the vista site says it's the Ultimate Edition, good until like may or aug 2007

 

[Skitzer]

Well the download got slower and slower until it stopped toally at 3.1 GB, just 90 or so megs short. I started another download after I could not get the first one to resume, (played with it for almost an hour before I gave up). The current download is running much faster and is still going strong at 37%. I wonder what happened to the first one? Oh well, got my fingers crossed.
I have a spare 40GB hard drive I'm going to throw in as a secondary drive and install onto that. I figure if this thing goes south I'll just repair XP with a fixmbr. I've also backed up all my data in case it really goes south and I have to reinstall XP.
I'll let you all know how I make out later this evening.
I also found Vista beta drivers for my 9800 Pro and Audigy 2 but nothing yet for my nForce 2 mainboard. I'll keep looking.

 

[Holysmoke36]

anyone know a torrent or a way to get this legal beta version fast?

 

[Holysmoke36]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers





Here is the Download link
32bit Vista
64bit vista
Need to be log-in for the office beta then click the link below
Click here to get key

thank you, got full 6 mbps download

 

[Gautama]

Do I have to burn the iso to a dvd, can i just use a image mounting software?

 

[JohnAn2112]

Originally posted by: Skitzer
Well the download got slower and slower until it stopped toally at 3.1 GB, just 90 or so megs short. I started another download after I could not get the first one to resume, (played with it for almost an hour before I gave up). The current download is running much faster and is still going strong at 37%. I wonder what happened to the first one? Oh well, got my fingers crossed.
I have a spare 40GB hard drive I'm going to throw in as a secondary drive and install onto that. I figure if this thing goes south I'll just repair XP with a fixmbr. I've also backed up all my data in case it really goes south and I have to reinstall XP.
I'll let you all know how I make out later this evening.
I also found Vista beta drivers for my 9800 Pro and Audigy 2 but nothing yet for my nForce 2 mainboard. I'll keep looking.

Can you do that with Vista? I remember before, you couldn't dual boot different versions of Windows unless both versions were installed onto the same drive, but different partitions. I would much rather install Vista on a seperate hard drive and have it dual boot along side with XP Pro.

 

[MikeyLSU]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers





Here is the Download link
32bit Vista
64bit vista
Need to be log-in for the office beta then click the link below
Click here to get key

is this working for anyone? The 32bit version just DLs a 1KB file. Windows site is still impossible to get through. The torrent is only going at 7 KB /second, just trying to find anyway to get vista.

 

[Gautama]

32 bit is working for me

 

[manly]

Is there any way to use an MS Passport account with a defunct email address for this Windows Live ID BS?

I had an MS Passport account back in 2001, but they refused to allow updating the email on the account. I know this sounds trivial, but I hate database duplicates.

And does this beta require Activation?

Edit:
Looks like MS deleted my old Passport account. If you have an extra key, please PM it over.

 

[SunnyD]

What is the exact filenames of the x86 iso's? I have a feeling the OP's link is downloading the french version judging by the name...

 

[Skitzer]

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112

Originally posted by: Skitzer
Well the download got slower and slower until it stopped toally at 3.1 GB, just 90 or so megs short. I started another download after I could not get the first one to resume, (played with it for almost an hour before I gave up). The current download is running much faster and is still going strong at 37%. I wonder what happened to the first one? Oh well, got my fingers crossed.
I have a spare 40GB hard drive I'm going to throw in as a secondary drive and install onto that. I figure if this thing goes south I'll just repair XP with a fixmbr. I've also backed up all my data in case it really goes south and I have to reinstall XP.
I'll let you all know how I make out later this evening.
I also found Vista beta drivers for my 9800 Pro and Audigy 2 but nothing yet for my nForce 2 mainboard. I'll keep looking.

Can you do that with Vista? I remember before, you couldn't dual boot different versions of Windows unless both versions were installed onto the same drive, but different partitions. I would much rather install Vista on a seperate hard drive and have it dual boot along side with XP Pro.

You know ......... I just assumed you could because Vista doesn't use boot.ini like XP does. It uses something called bcedit.exe and I believe you can set it up to boot from different drives. I may be wrong. If I can't then I'll just partition my main drive and dual boot that way. I'll let you know after I finish downloading it and burning it to disc.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Skitzer

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112

Originally posted by: Skitzer
Well the download got slower and slower until it stopped toally at 3.1 GB, just 90 or so megs short. I started another download after I could not get the first one to resume, (played with it for almost an hour before I gave up). The current download is running much faster and is still going strong at 37%. I wonder what happened to the first one? Oh well, got my fingers crossed.
I have a spare 40GB hard drive I'm going to throw in as a secondary drive and install onto that. I figure if this thing goes south I'll just repair XP with a fixmbr. I've also backed up all my data in case it really goes south and I have to reinstall XP.
I'll let you all know how I make out later this evening.
I also found Vista beta drivers for my 9800 Pro and Audigy 2 but nothing yet for my nForce 2 mainboard. I'll keep looking.

Can you do that with Vista? I remember before, you couldn't dual boot different versions of Windows unless both versions were installed onto the same drive, but different partitions. I would much rather install Vista on a seperate hard drive and have it dual boot along side with XP Pro.

You know ......... I just assumed you could because Vista doesn't use boot.ini like XP does. It uses something called bcedit.exe and I believe you can set it up to boot from different drives. I may be wrong. If I can't then I'll just partition my main drive and dual boot that way. I'll let you know after I finish downloading it and burning it to disc.

Windows doesn't care what drive it's on. Even XP.

 

[Gautama]

So... I have to burn this to a dvd? Only blanks i've got are cd's.

Can i mount it on daemon tools or alcohol 120%?

 

[Megatomic]

I got it installed, but I am not going to keep it on for now. Netgear doesn't have any drivers that work for my SC101 in Vista. Nor in WinXP Pro x64 or linux. And all my media is on that drive...

So far it's working fine though. I hate how windows keeps asking me if I really want something to run, even if I've already told it once before that that app can run. I'm going to update my 7900GT drivers and see how liquid Aero is. It's kinda klunky as it is now with the canned drivers MS provides for my 7900GT.

God I wish my SC101 would work in Vista....

 

[plonk420]

Originally posted by: Holysmoke36
anyone know a torrent or a way to get this legal beta version fast?

in case you haven't seen the other post (and can do x64), http://plonkmedia.org/tracker

 

[JohnAn2112]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: Skitzer

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112

Originally posted by: Skitzer
Well the download got slower and slower until it stopped toally at 3.1 GB, just 90 or so megs short. I started another download after I could not get the first one to resume, (played with it for almost an hour before I gave up). The current download is running much faster and is still going strong at 37%. I wonder what happened to the first one? Oh well, got my fingers crossed.
I have a spare 40GB hard drive I'm going to throw in as a secondary drive and install onto that. I figure if this thing goes south I'll just repair XP with a fixmbr. I've also backed up all my data in case it really goes south and I have to reinstall XP.
I'll let you all know how I make out later this evening.
I also found Vista beta drivers for my 9800 Pro and Audigy 2 but nothing yet for my nForce 2 mainboard. I'll keep looking.

Can you do that with Vista? I remember before, you couldn't dual boot different versions of Windows unless both versions were installed onto the same drive, but different partitions. I would much rather install Vista on a seperate hard drive and have it dual boot along side with XP Pro.

You know ......... I just assumed you could because Vista doesn't use boot.ini like XP does. It uses something called bcedit.exe and I believe you can set it up to boot from different drives. I may be wrong. If I can't then I'll just partition my main drive and dual boot that way. I'll let you know after I finish downloading it and burning it to disc.

Windows doesn't care what drive it's on. Even XP.

I know that you can install Windows on any drive, but I wanted to know if you can dual boot from 2 different physical drives with Vista. Before, when I dual booted 98SE and 2K, I had to run them on the same drive, but partition the drive.

 

[Trizik]

Do I want the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version?

I have an A64 3200+ in one computer and a Dual Core Pentium D 2.8GHz in another.

Does the 64-bit version support 32-bit software?

 

[randym431]

Is anyone getting thru? I always get this msg:

Thank you for your interest in Windows Vista Beta 2.

We are currently experiencing a high level of demand and cannot process your request at this time.

Please check back later for availability. We apologize for any inconvenience.