Comments on: Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Vista available for download

By: Mark Welton

Mark Welton — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:21:54 +0000

Another answer – try naming the DVD “WLKAIK” when you burn it.

By: X00D45

X00D45 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:42:13 +0000

tnks very much FSFIKKE,it works for my.
Greetins from Argentina

By: Pepe

Pepe — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:10:47 +0000

I confirm, after copy DVD to my HD, in my PC with XP and SP2, the installation was OK. Thanks for the advice!

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Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:59:26 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:35:41 +0000

Thanks a lot for those helpful contributions! I just posted another comment about this issue.

By: PWStrain

PWStrain — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:32:43 +0000

Worked here after copying the entire thing to my local HD.
My contact within Micro$oft does not know why it is no longer available. I’ll post if he gets back to me.

By: Tee Balder

Tee Balder — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:20:02 +0000

I started to download this at work yesterday, but it hadn’t finished by the time I was leaving work. So I shut my PC down and thought ‘no problem I’ll download it tomorrow’.

I tried to download this morning and IT HAS BEEN REMOVED!!!

By: Mark Latham

Mark Latham — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:24:02 +0000

Does anyone know how to make the flash drive show up in diskpart? i cannot see it but windows shows it’s there. Is there another way to format it??

By: Piyush

Piyush — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:44:43 +0000

Your workaround works. Great Thanks

By: PWStrain

PWStrain — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:40:37 +0000

Tried copying the files… didn’t work. Still get the error.

By: fsfikke

fsfikke — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:17:45 +0000

Nice, I found a way to make it work
You have to copy the WAIKX86.MSI (or the 64bit version) and the WINPE.CAB to your HD. Then run the MSI. Thats it

By: frank venezia

frank venezia — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:01:04 +0000

i had the same issue on winxp-sp2 and on vista.

i copied the contents of the dvd to the local hd and ran the setup from there just now, and it did complete the installation properly. very strange indeed!
i’ve asked our MS rep to investigate.
frank
lehman brothers

By: Mark Latham

Mark Latham — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:29:45 +0000

Same issue here! I'm trying to make a bootable USB drive per this link. And get the same issue - wants the disk. Help please!! Thanks!

By: fsfikke

fsfikke — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:38:47 +0000

I got the same error here. On a Windows XP SP2 and a virtual Vista install.
I hope you find a way to get it installed