Decided to give a little more effort into getting VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 installed. After some more googling (more time has passed since the release, so I found plenty of good articles), the general consensus seemed to be recommending using Alcohol , which I had heard of before...but if MS's own virtual ISO mounting software wasn't working, why would another? Incredibly, using Alcohol worked perfectly. I am halfway through the MSDN installation now, and will start posting my findings with VS.NET as I...