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
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.
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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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...
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.
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.