   Windows Vista & Virtual PC
  I am part of the microsoft connect community and I am able to download Windows Vista, I don't have any extra hard drives at the current moment and so I tried to install it via Virtual PC. However everytime I try that it says that the iso does not appear to be an image. All images are a certain size or somthing blah blah... so any ideas on how to get around this? Thanks.   
  Copy and paste the dialogue box in here.   ;  This does not appear to be a CD image. It must be at least 2MB and a multiple of 2k in size.   ;  The beta 2 iso of Vista is somewhere around 3 GB, so I'd say maybe you didn't download it all...   ;  How big is the magical ISO you have downloaded? Will WinRAR recognize it as a valid ISO and unpack it?   ;  Virtual PC won't support ISOs over about 2.2GB in size. You'll need to either burn it to a physical disk, or mount the iso using another tool.   ;  Try VMWare Server, then.. it's free and supports very nice Windows integration with its VMWare Tools drivers. It can also import VPC machines.   ;  Isn't it possible to make a separate partition on your harddrive and install it on there? From your description it appears space isn't the issue, only the amount of drives to install windows on. Doesn't Windows dual boot work with a different Windows on each partition?   ;Quote:Original post by LodeIsn't it possible to make a separate partition on your harddrive and install it on there? From your description it appears space isn't the issue, only the amount of drives to install windows on. Doesn't Windows dual boot work with a different Windows on each partition?Yes, but this isn't recommended with Vista.  Some people have been having problems with it.   ;  actually I did download it since I have high speed it only took around 2.5 hours for me to download. WinRAR only shows readme.txt in it. So I have no idea and I tried MagicISO but it's on trial and won't extract everything. Any free iso extractors out there?   