setup exe not valid win32 application installed once

Hello I have successfully installed the Vista Beta on my laptop in a vmware session. However when I try to open setup.exe from DVD to install on my home test pc I get the message "setup.exe is not a valid win32 application". This also happens on my other home (live) PC. I have definitely NOT downloaded the 64 bit version! I can't boot from DVD either, it moans about the partitition. Any ideas what is preventing setup.exe running? The icon doesn't display properly either. I have never had problems intslling apps before on home PC;s. I know there are other posts about this but I felt mine was slightly different as I had already managed to install on one machine and had not downloaded the wrong dvd. Phil P.S Loving Vista by the way!!

can anyone help with this? I get the old style setup.exe icon. When I try to run it I get:
Event Type: Warning Event Source: Cdrom Event Category: None Event ID: 51 Date: 14/06/2006 Time: 15:16:11 User: N/A Computer: GBRPC12 Description: An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data:


"philF" wrote:

Hello I have successfully installed the Vista Beta on my laptop in a vmware session. However when I try to open setup.exe from DVD to install on my home test pc I get the message "setup.exe is not a valid win32 application". This also happens on my other home (live) PC. I have definitely NOT downloaded the 64 bit version! I can't boot from DVD either, it moans about the partitition. Any ideas what is preventing setup.exe running? The icon doesn't display properly either. I have never had problems intslling apps before on home PC;s. I know there are other posts about this but I felt mine was slightly different as I had already managed to install on one machine and had not downloaded the wrong dvd. Phil P.S Loving Vista by the way!!

, there are no upgrade paths from Windows XP Professional x64 to Vista x86 or x64. You cannot launch Vista x64 setup in Windows XP x86 or you will get an "invalid Win32" error. You have to boot off the DVD. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"philF" wrote in message

Hello I have successfully installed the Vista Beta on my laptop in a vmware session. However when I try to open setup.exe from DVD to install on my home test pc I get the message "setup.exe is not a valid win32 application". This also happens on my other home (live) PC. I have definitely NOT downloaded the 64 bit version! I can't boot from DVD either, it moans about the partitition. Any ideas what is preventing setup.exe running? The icon doesn't display properly either. I have never had problems intslling apps before on home PC;s. I know there are other posts about this but I felt mine was slightly different as I had already managed to install on one machine and had not downloaded the wrong dvd. Phil P.S Loving Vista by the way!!

Andre - Did you read my question? I am going from XP x86 to Vista x86. I have not downloaded the 64bit version. I have already UPGRADED one machine, I am just stuck on another.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

, there are no upgrade paths from Windows XP Professional x64 to Vista x86 or x64. You cannot launch Vista x64 setup in Windows XP x86 or you will get an "invalid Win32" error. You have to boot off the DVD. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"philF" wrote in message Hello I have successfully installed the Vista Beta on my laptop in a vmware session. However when I try to open setup.exe from DVD to install on my home test pc I get the message "setup.exe is not a valid win32 application". This also happens on my other home (live) PC. I have definitely NOT downloaded the 64 bit version! I can't boot from DVD either, it moans about the partitition. Any ideas what is preventing setup.exe running? The icon doesn't display properly either. I have never had problems intslling apps before on home PC;s. I know there are other posts about this but I felt mine was slightly different as I had already managed to install on one machine and had not downloaded the wrong dvd. Phil P.S Loving Vista by the way!!

It sounds like a file read problem. If the dvd was used install on another machine then there is something about the drive in the second machine that is not correctly reading from the dvd. The error message was related to cyclical redundancy errors when I got it on one of my installation attempts. It turned out that there was some misallignment (or something) between the drives on my machines such that a dvd created on one did not work right on the other. When I both created and booted from the same drive I did not have the issue.
"philF" wrote in message

Andre - Did you read my question? I am going from XP x86 to Vista x86. I have not downloaded the 64bit version. I have already UPGRADED one machine, I am just stuck on another.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
, there are no upgrade paths from Windows XP Professional x64 to Vista x86 or x64. You cannot launch Vista x64 setup in Windows XP x86 or you will get an "invalid Win32" error. You have to boot off the DVD. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"philF" wrote in message Hello I have successfully installed the Vista Beta on my laptop in a vmware session. However when I try to open setup.exe from DVD to install on my home test pc I get the message "setup.exe is not a valid win32 application". This also happens on my other home (live) PC. I have definitely NOT downloaded the 64 bit version! I can't boot from DVD either, it moans about the partitition. Any ideas what is preventing setup.exe running? The icon doesn't display properly either. I have never had problems intslling apps before on home PC;s. I know there are other posts about this but I felt mine was slightly different as I had already managed to install on one machine and had not downloaded the wrong dvd. Phil P.S Loving Vista by the way!!

I agree, very strange. I have been walking round the office trying the disc in lots of different machines and I would say that it runs on only 20% of the machines. It doesn't run on the drive that created it which is even stranger. Oh well, I am going to 'borrow' one of the drives that works :-)
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

It sounds like a file read problem. If the dvd was used install on another machine then there is something about the drive in the second machine that is not correctly reading from the dvd. The error message was related to cyclical redundancy errors when I got it on one of my installation attempts. It turned out that there was some misallignment (or something) between the drives on my machines such that a dvd created on one did not work right on the other. When I both created and booted from the same drive I did not have the issue.
"philF" wrote in message Andre - Did you read my question? I am going from XP x86 to Vista x86. I have not downloaded the 64bit version. I have already UPGRADED one machine, I am just stuck on another.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
, there are no upgrade paths from Windows XP Professional x64 to Vista x86 or x64. You cannot launch Vista x64 setup in Windows XP x86 or you will get an "invalid Win32" error. You have to boot off the DVD. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"philF" wrote in message Hello I have successfully installed the Vista Beta on my laptop in a vmware session. However when I try to open setup.exe from DVD to install on my home test pc I get the message "setup.exe is not a valid win32 application". This also happens on my other home (live) PC. I have definitely NOT downloaded the 64 bit version! I can't boot from DVD either, it moans about the partitition. Any ideas what is preventing setup.exe running? The icon doesn't display properly either. I have never had problems intslling apps before on home PC;s. I know there are other posts about this but I felt mine was slightly different as I had already managed to install on one machine and had not downloaded the wrong dvd. Phil P.S Loving Vista by the way!!