I'm sorry. None of the Vista betas are available from Microsoft anymore.
They are floating around on the P2P networks but you download there at your
own risk.

The only fix I ever found for the RC1 index death problem was to reinstall
RC1. You can do an in-place upgrade of the same version and hopefully not
lose any of your settings.

"Sir Bubba IV" <SirBubbaIV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B665146A-5508-4D5C-8502-5C6B39720BD8@microsoft.com...
> Unfortunatly I only have rc1. when I realized there was rc2 avalable, I
> missed out downloading.
>
> do you know a specific patch to fix this other than rc2, or do you have a
> link for rc2?
>
> thanks for reply
>
> "Robert Blacher" wrote:
>
>> I think you are running RC1. In any event, that bug was fixed in later
>> betas and is fixed in the RTM.
>>
>> "Sir Bubba IV" <Sir Bubba IV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A4EE4EED-2D5D-411E-BB82-BA2083FFC64A@microsoft.com...
>> > when I try to start the windows seach service it fails to start. I get
>> > an
>> > error
>> >
>> > Windows Search Service has failed to created the new system catalog.
>> > Internal error <1,0x80070002>.
>> >
>> > cannot find any reference to this error.
>> >
>> > can anyone enlighten me
>> > thanks
>>