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I couldn&#8217;t believe that I was alone with this problem and googling wasn&#8217;t doing much for me until I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetamd64.com\/index.php?showtopic=15849&amp;view=findpost&amp;p=174053\">HazardHawk&#8217;s reply to a post on Planet AMD 64<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Build 5270 will not install if you download it and burn the ISO to disk no matter what program you use and the only way I have managed to get it running was to reinstall XP &#8230; from scratch, then install daemon tools and load the ISO to a virtual DVD&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the 32-bit release (no 64-bit hardware here yet) and I didn&#8217;t use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daemon-tools.cc\/\">Daemon Tools<\/a>, but I did use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/direct-access-to-iso-images.htm\">Microsoft Virtual CD Control Panel<\/a> to mount the ISO (it doesn&#8217;t matter that it&#8217;s a DVD ISO and the application is a virtual CD driver), after which I was able to run the installer from within Windows XP by just launching setup.exe.<\/p>\n<p>The option to upgrade from Windows XP Professional was disabled, but that didn&#8217;t stop me from installing on the same disk partition &#8211; the Windows Vista installer moved my existing \\Windows folder to \\Windows.old. 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