Can't burn windows ISO due to 2gb limit?!

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Hey everyone,

I have bought Win7 from Microsoft HE. Ive dl'd the ISO and burnt it to a dvd, but whilst "extending files" during installation, it failed - saying the image was possibly corrupt.

So i redownloaded the iso on another laptop and attempted burning it but it got stuck at 55%.

Off i go to yet another laptop. I try to burn the disc there but it says there is an ISO filesystem limit of 2GB (this was using some jip burning software). So i drag the file imto the disc folder and press burn. Burn completes successfully and i put tge disc into my laptop. But this time it doesnt even recognise it as a bootable disc!

OCUK what should I do?
 
Use ImgBurn. Burn the disk slowly. Use quality media.

If it still won't work, try a different optical drive.

If it still won't work, give up and admit absolute failure.
 
As others have said, different burning program. Decent quality disks, and finally make sure it's not the drive playing up.

It could be a case of burning it maybe on another pc or something.
 
it also looks to me like you're trying to burn the iso file to dvd as a data disc. using imgburn select "Write image file to disc" and then choose the iso you downloaded
 
Oh yeah, overlooked that.

You're trying to burn the iso ONTO the disc, what you want to be doing is burning the iso IMAGE to the disc

Basically an ISO is a container (like a zip file) that burning programs can use, it contains the bootable information etc

Use imgburn in 'Write Image file to disc' or 'Write' mode
 
Alright. Ive now tried burning it using imageburn, ive tried 4 discs from 3 different computers. Upon setup, the "expanding windows files" part always stops, saying something about the image possibly being corrupt. Ive tried two different downloads of the image and get the same result. What now?

Could my memory possibly be at fault? Should i try removing one of my two 2gb ram sticks?

Edit: here is the message: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/4168533469_f600483c41_o.jpg
sometimes it stops at 50% or even 0%. But it just now got up to 80% before stopping.
 
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Scratch all that. Its installed :)

I persisted in repeating the installation attempt without rebooting the computer. And it worked after the 4th attempt!
 
Right, I tried the double install trick to make this activate problem. After maybe 2 hours of trying different things (because once again I was having problems with the installation - and this was despite trying to mount the image and trying the exe version as well), I tried something much simpler - typing my upgrade key into the windows activation.

It activated successfully :confused:

Anyone know if there will be any long term problems with this?

Edit: OK so the corruption thing isn't just related to Windows installation. It's just happened whilst unpacking the Nvidia driver as well, and im sure it will happen with other things.
Is this a hard drive problem or a RAM problem?
 
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Go for testing the RAM download Memtest 86+ and give that a couple of runs, also are you overclocking? If so then put things back to default. Also check that the voltage and timings for the RAM are correct.
 
It means you've got a borked stick of RAM, a broken RAM socket, or your memory timings and/or voltages and/or overclock is wrong. Try setting your system back to default/sensible settings if you've changed anything and then testing one stick of RAM at a time.
 
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What Berserker said.

Is your pc overclocked?
What ram are you using?
What settings does the ram have in the bios?

Those red errors immediatly scream ram problems

Oh, it's a laptop

Remove one stick of ram and see if that one works ok, unluckily, the price of DDR2 has shot up recently
 
Ahh. So am I to assume they will be the culprit of the errors I've been having? (ie. installations of Windows and programs going wrong, and a few BSODs)
 
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