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Leave it to M$. I downloaded the Beta today from their website. You got it, corrupted. I even burned it at 2x to a DVD and still corrupt.

If someone knows a solution to this, let me know. The x64 copy I got from torrents was perfect but the one from MS themselves is fracked.

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sounds like you downloaded a bad file, thats all, dont blame windows 7 for this, just redownload

Reply to rad_dreamer3kx

The servers went down, your download probably didn't finish.

Reply to randomizer

Well no, it was exactly the same size as my earlier torrent file (that does work), but it was just corrupted.

Reply to mitchellvii
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Tried it out earlier on 2nd computer, its vista rewrapped lol tried 64 bit, sucky experience but hopefully better in the future

Reply to sharken

ISOs take up the full size even if they didn't download fully. I've torrented a few MB of an ISO before cancelling but it still took up 3GB or so on my disk. I wondered where all my disk space had gone :lol:

Reply to randomizer

The bit torrent version took me 5 attempts to install. The MS version which seems identical, also took 5 or 6 attempts. They both gave that identical message about a corrupted file.

I would just keep going through the install process repeatedly, if you REALLY WANT TO RUN IT.

Reply to RobertGru
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When downloading, it is common for programs to preallocate the space required. Dont blame microsoft for your bad download... likely you got a bad packet and were not even aware.

Does microsoft provide a hash?

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Reply to skittle
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I had to burn at 4x speed and run it in a different DVD drive than which it was burned to get the install files to extract.
Before that.... error 0x8004240f

IIRC Windows Vista had similar install problems when it was in beta. Nothing to be alarmed by...

Reply to fulle
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All 3 downloads I grabbed finished without problems. Including one that was interrupted for over an hour. Were you using any type of download manager?

Reply to WR2
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I didn't have any issues with the download from the technet site.

Reply to bhowell

My third download of the 32 bit version was good. First from bitorrent and second were corrupted, although I got them install. First try with the 64 bit version from Microsoft had no problems.


Reply to RobertGru
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The Windows 7 RC on MSDN, both x32 and x64, dated 5/21 are bad. The ISOs are fine, the operating systems themselves are corrupted, and generate extensive permissions errors when using IE.

Supposedly the previous releases dated 4/30 are good.

Microsoft, please post repaired release candidates or pull the bad ones. You have enough troubles already and you should not be pissing off developers, your core audience.

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