Cannot install WAIK

OK this is getting REALLY annoying. I obtained the AIK for Vista some time
ago and installed it on a Vista x86 computer and have used it since then.

Now with Windows 7, I have a computer running x64 and I want to install the
Windows 7 version of WAIK to build installations for Windows 7 x64 for our
computers.

In the last few days I have downloaded KB3AIK.iso about three times trying
to get one that will work. I tried burning it to a DVD, and I also tried
extracting it to a disk folder and running StartCD.exe. I also tried
directly running the MSI file for the architecture. None of these work. One
of the downloads was incomplete and as a result contained numerous
incomplete files so I had to download again.

The results so far are the same on x86 Vista or x64 Windows 7 and also the
same whether the ISO was burned to a DVD, or the files extracted to a disk
folder.

When running StartCD.exe it opens in a command prompt window which quickly
closes without anything happening. I opened a separate command prompt window
to run StartCD.exe to see what was happening and saw the message "Program
too big to fit in memory" which isn't true at all as this system has 2 GB
installed. Anyone who knows their PC from way back knows that "Program too
big to fit in memory" is an old MS-DOS error. You just don't see it any more
in Windows. This error is occurring on two separate downloaded copies of the
AIK ISO that were downloaded on different days on different PCs. The second
download used a download manager to ensure the download was complete yet I
still get this error message.

The other thing I tried is directly executing the msi files for the
installation I.e. waikx86.msi or waikamd64.msi yet they always come up with
an error message saying "This installation package could not be opened.
Contact the supplier to ensure this is a valid Windows package".

With trying to download so far three times and getting errors every time it
must be virtually impossible to be able to downoad this AIK reliably, even
with a download manager verifying it is 100% complete download.

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So I tried downloading for the fourth time (using the same download manager
as for the third attempt), and this time it works. All the data from the
other three download attempts was completely wasted traffic.

I think seriously Microsoft needs to offer a download manager option on any
download over 500 MB. They offer it to you to download OS images (like when
I downloaded Windows 7 from the Microsoft site recently). So they should
offer it for any file of significant size. Otherwise how do you know why the
download has failed and avoid wasting traffic and cost?

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"NZSchoolTech" <nzschooltech@education.nz> wrote in message
news:uAsQppbtKHA.5936@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> OK this is getting REALLY annoying. I obtained the AIK for Vista some time
> ago and installed it on a Vista x86 computer and have used it since then.
>
> Now with Windows 7, I have a computer running x64 and I want to install
> the Windows 7 version of WAIK to build installations for Windows 7 x64 for
> our computers.
>
> In the last few days I have downloaded KB3AIK.iso about three times trying
> to get one that will work. I tried burning it to a DVD, and I also tried
> extracting it to a disk folder and running StartCD.exe. I also tried
> directly running the MSI file for the architecture. None of these work.
> One of the downloads was incomplete and as a result contained numerous
> incomplete files so I had to download again.
>
> The results so far are the same on x86 Vista or x64 Windows 7 and also the
> same whether the ISO was burned to a DVD, or the files extracted to a disk
> folder.
>
> When running StartCD.exe it opens in a command prompt window which quickly
> closes without anything happening. I opened a separate command prompt
> window to run StartCD.exe to see what was happening and saw the message
> "Program too big to fit in memory" which isn't true at all as this system
> has 2 GB installed. Anyone who knows their PC from way back knows that
> "Program too big to fit in memory" is an old MS-DOS error. You just don't
> see it any more in Windows. This error is occurring on two separate
> downloaded copies of the AIK ISO that were downloaded on different days on
> different PCs. The second download used a download manager to ensure the
> download was complete yet I still get this error message.
>
> The other thing I tried is directly executing the msi files for the
> installation I.e. waikx86.msi or waikamd64.msi yet they always come up
> with an error message saying "This installation package could not be
> opened. Contact the supplier to ensure this is a valid Windows package".
>
> With trying to download so far three times and getting errors every time
> it must be virtually impossible to be able to downoad this AIK reliably,
> even with a download manager verifying it is 100% complete download.
>
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>

Did you burn the disks as ISO disks using an ISO burner or did you burn them
as data disks containing the downloaded files?

"NZSchoolTech" <nzschooltech@education.nz> wrote in message
news:uS2C#GetKHA.5940@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> So I tried downloading for the fourth time (using the same download
> manager as for the third attempt), and this time it works. All the data
> from the other three download attempts was completely wasted traffic.
>
> I think seriously Microsoft needs to offer a download manager option on
> any download over 500 MB. They offer it to you to download OS images (like
> when I downloaded Windows 7 from the Microsoft site recently). So they
> should offer it for any file of significant size. Otherwise how do you
> know why the download has failed and avoid wasting traffic and cost?
>
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>
>
> "NZSchoolTech" <nzschooltech@education.nz> wrote in message
> news:uAsQppbtKHA.5936@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> OK this is getting REALLY annoying. I obtained the AIK for Vista some
>> time ago and installed it on a Vista x86 computer and have used it since
>> then.
>>
>> Now with Windows 7, I have a computer running x64 and I want to install
>> the Windows 7 version of WAIK to build installations for Windows 7 x64
>> for our computers.
>>
>> In the last few days I have downloaded KB3AIK.iso about three times
>> trying to get one that will work. I tried burning it to a DVD, and I also
>> tried extracting it to a disk folder and running StartCD.exe. I also
>> tried directly running the MSI file for the architecture. None of these
>> work. One of the downloads was incomplete and as a result contained
>> numerous incomplete files so I had to download again.
>>
>> The results so far are the same on x86 Vista or x64 Windows 7 and also
>> the same whether the ISO was burned to a DVD, or the files extracted to a
>> disk folder.
>>
>> When running StartCD.exe it opens in a command prompt window which
>> quickly closes without anything happening. I opened a separate command
>> prompt window to run StartCD.exe to see what was happening and saw the
>> message "Program too big to fit in memory" which isn't true at all as
>> this system has 2 GB installed. Anyone who knows their PC from way back
>> knows that "Program too big to fit in memory" is an old MS-DOS error. You
>> just don't see it any more in Windows. This error is occurring on two
>> separate downloaded copies of the AIK ISO that were downloaded on
>> different days on different PCs. The second download used a download
>> manager to ensure the download was complete yet I still get this error
>> message.
>>
>> The other thing I tried is directly executing the msi files for the
>> installation I.e. waikx86.msi or waikamd64.msi yet they always come up
>> with an error message saying "This installation package could not be
>> opened. Contact the supplier to ensure this is a valid Windows package".
>>
>> With trying to download so far three times and getting errors every time
>> it must be virtually impossible to be able to downoad this AIK reliably,
>> even with a download manager verifying it is 100% complete download.
>>
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