Q:

Problems With VS2008 Pro Edition 90 day Trial

I have two computers.  One computer is an old XP and the other is a new Vista.
I have dowloaded and pretty much tested an installation of VS2008ProEdition90dayTrialENUX1435622.iso without any problems on the XP computer.
The Vista computer (where I need to do my work and where I have all the hard drive space, etc) has been pretty eventful -- in a bad way.
It seemed that the iso file, itself did not download correctly.  So I did it a few times.  When I ran the installer, it did some sort of file extraction on a first step (71 files, I remember) and it seemd to die on the same file.
My Vista computer has a brand new OS and a brand new hard drive.  I do not understand why it is giving me so much trouble.
Eventually I resorted to FTP'ing the iso file along with all the extracted files from my XP computer to my Vista computer.
Then I managed to get further.
But it still behaves strangely.
One thing I notice is that the license agreement is missing.

That is pretty wierd.
When I get to the point where I am supposed to start the installation, the installer lights up with errors.
There are so many that I do not know where to begin.

Where do I begin?
I have tried running the iso from a virtual drive with the DAEMON toolset. That did not make a difference.
I have tried running as an Administrator.  That did not make a difference.
I have tried shutting down all programs and even uninstalling anti-virus programs.  That did not make a difference.
I have used the windows DVD burn utility to burn the files onto a DVD and run it from there.  That did not make a difference.
And the wierdness continues.  The   C:\Users...\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_error_vs_procore_90.txt
has error messages that read that there is a problem copying from the F drive.  Well, I do not have an F drive.
I have even gone so far is to create a virtual F drive through a network connection to myself pointing to the DVD drive.
That did not work either.
Any suggestions?
Yes, I have posted this question with the Microsoft People.  I am waiting for an answer.  Maybe StackOverflow can beat them.

A:

Well, my computer came with a NERO 7 essentials CD.
I installed this product and I noticed that there was an option to "burn an existing image" onto a cd or dvd.
I did that.
And I ran the newly created DVD as if it were a new product.
My first indication that things were working now was that the product license came up.
And now the entire installation is running smoothly.
Solved

