vm vista installation

I have the latest VMware on my laptop, and it works as I have WindowsXP Pro running in it. When trying to install Vista I get the following error message
Cannot load WinSetup.dll. This file may be missing or currupt. Error code: 1117
I downloaded Vista directly form Windows, I have checked the files and the WinSetup.dll is there. I just want to know, what could be wrong, should I download all of Vista again or can I download that speciifc file from somewhere and replace the old one
Thanks for your help Michael

You checked to see if the file was there, but did you verify the image integrity to make sure that it downloaded correctly and is in fact complete and not corrupt? ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>
Michael wrote:

I have the latest VMware on my laptop, and it works as I have WindowsXP Pro running in it. When trying to install Vista I get the following error message
Cannot load WinSetup.dll. This file may be missing or currupt. Error code: 1117
I downloaded Vista directly form Windows, I have checked the files and the WinSetup.dll is there. I just want to know, what could be wrong, should I download all of Vista again or can I download that speciifc file from somewhere and replace the old one
Thanks for your help Michael

I agree. I have Vista running in VMWare server just fine "Mark Dietz" wrote in message

You checked to see if the file was there, but did you verify the image integrity to make sure that it downloaded correctly and is in fact complete and not corrupt? ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org
Michael wrote: I have the latest VMware on my laptop, and it works as I have WindowsXP Pro running in it. When trying to install Vista I get the following error message
Cannot load WinSetup.dll. This file may be missing or currupt. Error code: 1117
I downloaded Vista directly form Windows, I have checked the files and the WinSetup.dll is there. I just want to know, what could be wrong, should I download all of Vista again or can I download that speciifc file from somewhere and replace the old one
Thanks for your help Michael

Thank you for your responce, I didn't expect it so soon. I am afraid I have no way (at present) to varify my download. The only way I can think of is either, download the same file form another source or download the same file from microsoft and compair them manually. However, if I could find that specific dll as mentioned earlier, I could compair them to see if my dll was complete or not.
In your opinion, what would you do?
Thanks Michael
"Tom Scales" wrote:

I agree. I have Vista running in VMWare server just fine "Mark Dietz" wrote in message You checked to see if the file was there, but did you verify the image integrity to make sure that it downloaded correctly and is in fact complete and not corrupt? ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org
Michael wrote: I have the latest VMware on my laptop, and it works as I have WindowsXP Pro running in it. When trying to install Vista I get the following error message
Cannot load WinSetup.dll. This file may be missing or currupt. Error code: 1117
I downloaded Vista directly form Windows, I have checked the files and the WinSetup.dll is there. I just want to know, what could be wrong, should I download all of Vista again or can I download that speciifc file from somewhere and replace the old one
Thanks for your help Michael

It sounds like a file read error. I have gotten it from bad downloads burned to dvd and used to install on a regular pc. If you are using the image file directly in VMWare then of course it can't be the burn.
"Michael" wrote in message

Thank you for your responce, I didn't expect it so soon. I am afraid I have no way (at present) to varify my download. The only way I can think of is either, download the same file form another source or download the same file from microsoft and compair them manually. However, if I could find that specific dll as mentioned earlier, I could compair them to see if my dll was complete or not.
In your opinion, what would you do?
Thanks Michael
"Tom Scales" wrote:
I agree. I have Vista running in VMWare server just fine "Mark Dietz" wrote in message You checked to see if the file was there, but did you verify the image integrity to make sure that it downloaded correctly and is in fact complete and not corrupt? ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org
Michael wrote: I have the latest VMware on my laptop, and it works as I have WindowsXP Pro running in it. When trying to install Vista I get the following error message
Cannot load WinSetup.dll. This file may be missing or currupt. Error code: 1117
I downloaded Vista directly form Windows, I have checked the files and the WinSetup.dll is there. I just want to know, what could be wrong, should I download all of Vista again or can I download that speciifc file from somewhere and replace the old one
Thanks for your help Michael