Did you burn the full VISTA DVD by using a burning program to extract the ISO files to their various parts which are then burned to the disc?.. If so, the VISTA disc will have LOTS of files on it.. If not, the disc will have only one ISO file.. The single ISO file won't correctly install the operating system.
And if you did actually extract the ISO file correctly, did you set the burning program to "verify" so that you are sure all files are fully copied to the disc? It sounds like the disc is faulty.
Hope this helps.
Grif
My computer came with Vista Home Premium but because it was a 32-bit OS I was only able to use 2.8 out of the 4 gigs of RAM that my computer was capable of. So, I downloaded Vista Ultimate 64-bit from my school since that supposedly would fix this and burnt it to disk as an ISO file. I then booted the system from the disk to do a clean installation and everything seemed fine. I entered the serial # and the installation started. However, at some point something went wrong and I got the blue screen saying windows was shutting down to prevent damage to my computer. Now windows won't start in normal or safe mode. I plan on just reinstalling Home Premium from the Dell recovery disk to get back to square one but what do I need to do to get Vista Ultimate 64-bit running on my computer?

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