Thanks TG. I did read through a bunch of the same info yesterday but I could not get the Vista disc to download for me. It comes through as a torrent file and I couldnt get utorrent to push the download

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Trying it now...

Yeah, that is strange. uTorrent won't pull it at all, but it's comming in very quickly with the built in torrent client in Opera.

Which version of vista do you have? 32-bit or 64-bit?

I can rehost the file (or you could just try another torrent client).

64-bit Vista Home Premium. I was gonna give it another shot when I got home from work at 3

I pulled the 32-bit, oops...

I never could get uTorrent to budge, it could have been an incompatability in the torrent file for whatever reason.

The built in client in the Opera browser had the 32-bit file coming in at max line speed (w/ 3k+ seeds, this is to be expeced).

Downloading the 64-bit now, will rehost and you can pull from there.

Ok i'm a friggin idiot. I have 32 bit. I was looking at a new computer with 64 bit windows 7.

Windows Vista 32-bit (x86) Recovery Disc iso

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FILLPF88 

Or just install a different torrent client and grab it from the links on one of the afforementioned pages.

Just talked to the wife and she got the 32 bit download to go through. I will burn the disc when I get home. Hopefully I can get the disc to boot, read a bunch of people having problems getting the disc to load. Thanks for your help TG...will hopefully post my success later

The load problems of the CD could be any number of things, but these four rise to the top of the list:

1) not setting the bios correctly to boot from CD - some bios'es are strange, even if you use the F-whatever key on startup and select CD, sometimes they will still try to boot from hard disk (I have one system that does this). You might have to change to boot order so that CD is first, or even possibly remove the hard disk from the boot order list (that system I have, I have to remove HDD from the boot list to get it boot from CD)

2) Bad or incorrect burn of the ISO file that renders the cd disc unbootable.

3) Corrupt download of iso

4) PEBKAC error.

Thanks for raining on my parade TG lol. And I was starting to think positive

Huh?

I was pointing those out so you could hopefully avoid them...

I would use ImgBurn for making the disc BTW.

Is PEBKAC the new BCAC?

pretty much.

I was just joking around TG. I planned on changing the boot sequence just to be on the safe side

TG thank you for your help. I am now posting from my laptop again.

Good to hear and 'welcome.