Bootcamp: Windows 7 Home Premium

[snipecaik]

So long story short, it is near impossible to use bootcamp with a usb thumb drive on a mac mini that has a disc drive, due to the way the apple bootmanager is configured. Although as I only have a windows 7 home premium key, I don't know what to do. You can no longer download windows 7 iso files from Microsoft, I need someone to recommend me a windows 7 installation disc that can be bought from the likes of ebay.
Thank You.

 

[keysofanxiety]

So long story short, it is near impossible to use bootcamp with a usb thumb drive on a mac mini that has a disc drive, due to the way the apple bootmanager is configured. Although as I only have a windows 7 home premium key, I don't know what to do. You can no longer download windows 7 iso files from Microsoft, I need someone to recommend me a windows 7 installation disc that can be bought from the likes of ebay.
Thank You.

Have you tried entering the product key here and downloading the Windows 7 ISO? Failing that, you can just pick up an ISO from loads of places, doesn't really matter where you get it -- it's only the licence key that validates it as genuine after all, not the DVD.

 

[Gjwilly]

Someone said recently that an update is coming from Microsoft that will allow you to use Windows 7/8 license keys to clean install Windows 10.
Maybe wait a month or so.