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Windows 7 student upgrade HELP

I never made it to the install. I get errors during the "unloading" portion. so now i have all kinds of stuff on my windows desktop that is basically useless.
 
bozz2006 said:
I never made it to the install. I get errors during the "unloading" portion. so now i have all kinds of stuff on my windows desktop that is basically useless.
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I was getting the same errors in my VM, I tried on a PC, and got the same errors. Haven't tried anything else yet.
 
Your going about this totally the wrong way. Its actually quite simple. You can trick W7 into thinking its doing an upgrade. I have done this with the student special last night.

Here's what to do.

How to make the box and exe files into a bootable ISO...


1) Run 'Win7-P-Retail-en-us-***.exe'... expandedSetup dir will be spat out.
2) Copy 'expandedSetup' directory somewhere (D: for the purposes of this...)
3) Make sure 'etfsboot.com' has copied over from the source boot dir to your copy boot dir (mine didnt copy over)
4) Download 'oscdimg.exe' and dump in C:\windows\system32
5) Open a command prompt and run:
6) oscdimg -bD:\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com -h -u2 -m -lWIN_EN_DVD D:\expandedSetup D:\Windows7.iso (exactly, I know no gaps between "-bD:\")

This will then give you a bootable iso which you can burn to DVD.

THEN

1) install W7 with NO serial number - let it complete until you have a usable desktop
2) FROM WITHIN W7 run the setup.exe from the DVD
3) install W7 AGAIN this time as an upgrade
4) once installed activate using your upgrade serial as normal.

This is exactly what i did last night and it all worked and activated fine.

Hope this helps
 
thanks Jamin. I hope to give this a shot soon. One question. When I try to drag expanded setup to the D drive (which is my DVD drive), it asks me to insert a disk. Is this correct? Since I don't have any burning software in windows, I was planning on burning the DVD in OSX. Can I do this?

edit: When I try and drag expandedsetup into D: I get the error message "D: is not accessible. Incorrect function".
 
bozz2006 said:
thanks Jamin. I hope to give this a shot soon. One question. When I try to drag expanded setup to the D drive (which is my DVD drive), it asks me to insert a disk. Is this correct? Since I don't have any burning software in windows, I was planning on burning the DVD in OSX. Can I do this?
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No, the D:\ drive was just an example.

Use your C:\ drive instead

But you'll have to change all the references in the script of D:\ to C:\
 
Thank you. It generated the iso. i am copying it over to OSX to burn it with disk utility. I will report back later!
 
I got the ISO burned and am trying to set up a parallels machine with it. the installation begins but then I get error message:

Windows cannot open the required file D:\Sources\Install.wim. Make sure all files required are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x8007000D

I get the same error message when I try to set up the virtual machine using the ISO that I dragged from the Parallels desktop into the OSX desktop.

Any ideas?
 
What a nightmare!

I get an error message at the end of the "unloading" process:

We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded. Please check the folder properties to make sure you have security permissions on the folder to write files and that the folder is not read-only.​

So I try it again, after unchecking the read-only box in the folder (why was it check in the first place?), but I get the same error. Seems the "unchecking" does not stick. As soon as I uncheck it, it comes back checked (actually solid green) the next time I open the properties dialog box. WTF!
 
Win 7 drivers on 2006 mac pro

For all you 2006 owners, Apple has announced that they'll be providing updated hardware drivers for Win 7 by the end of the year, but mid-2006 Mac Pros, and a handful of other machines will be unsupported:

http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._not_support_windows_7_on_some_2006_macs.html

I'm currently running Win 7 on a 2007 MacBook and driver support is ok with the Boot Camp 3 drivers, but it could be better.

I hope that this announcement doesn't mean that 2006 owners will bork their Win 7 install if they try to install the new drivers, but it seems worth a heads up.
 
Thanks. my problems here arne't even limited to my mac pro classic. I get the same issues on my unibody macbook.
 
I was contemplating making the move over to windows full-time when i buy my next computer, mainly to save money, if Windows 7 lived up to what everyone was saying about it. maybe the OS is great, but it seems like every time i have to do something like this in Windows, I spend hours and hours (I would estimate this problem has taken 10 hours of my life so far) trying to figure out how to get it to work. I think i'll stick with OSX. I can't handle all the headaches on a full-time basis.
 
bozz2006 said:
I was contemplating making the move over to windows full-time when i buy my next computer, mainly to save money, if Windows 7 lived up to what everyone was saying about it. maybe the OS is great, but it seems like every time i have to do something like this in Windows, I spend hours and hours (I would estimate this problem has taken 10 hours of my life so far) trying to figure out how to get it to work. I think i'll stick with OSX. I can't handle all the headaches on a full-time basis.
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I've installed Windows 7 on three now native Windows machines... they have all been flawless and easy. Two were Vista upgrades, one was an XP we did a clean install... which truthfully, everyone who had Vista should do anyway because chances are you've got some crappy software problem in there anyway!

My point is, the major problems people are running into is getting Windows 7 to work in virtual environments, or bootcamp partitions, etc. Give it a little time for Apple, VMWare 3, and Parallels to update to make the process a little more seamless and you'll be better off. Also, why the heck didn't these people spend the extra 13 bucks and get the discs! Come on, 43 vs 30? For an actual set of Windows7 discs? Seems like a no brainer... especially if you are installing via virtual machine.

I do remember reading somewhere that it is possible to order your back-up discs after the fact... look into that!
 
OK, so the I read on other forums that that error I was talking about may not really matter. At the end of the process I do get expandedSetup folder, but double-clicking on the installer exe gets me into another dead end. It's apparently a 64-bit application and I'm running 32-bit WinXP. Man, I hate Steve Ballmer with a passion!
 
akadmon said:
but double-clicking on the installer exe gets me into another dead end. It's apparently a 64-bit application and I'm running 32-bit WinXP. Man, I hate Steve Ballmer with a passion!
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same here, in an attempt to upgrade to win 7-64 from xp-32
 
linkycat said:
I've installed Windows 7 on three now native Windows machines... they have all been flawless and easy. Two were Vista upgrades, one was an XP we did a clean install... which truthfully, everyone who had Vista should do anyway because chances are you've got some crappy software problem in there anyway!

My point is, the major problems people are running into is getting Windows 7 to work in virtual environments, or bootcamp partitions, etc. Give it a little time for Apple, VMWare 3, and Parallels to update to make the process a little more seamless and you'll be better off. Also, why the heck didn't these people spend the extra 13 bucks and get the discs! Come on, 43 vs 30? For an actual set of Windows7 discs? Seems like a no brainer... especially if you are installing via virtual machine.

I do remember reading somewhere that it is possible to order your back-up discs after the fact... look into that!
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Well NOW it seems like a no-brainer! lol
 
Check the link I posted earlier. Apparently Microsoft is giving refunds. No details on that engadget pg though. Maybe you have to call Microsoft.
 
I've pretty much given up hope. I will still mess around with it, but I just don't have any hope of getting it up and running. :eek::mad:
 
I've just got it installed on my 2008 Mac Pro after a few false starts. Its only working in Boot Camp though but I have some thoughts which may or may not help....Here goes.

Best results for this student edition are to install from an already installed version of windows in boot camp (XP or Vista). It's also best to upgrade from within the actual partition space your new install of Windows 7 is going to be. If you install it from a different partition space or disk drive, Windows will put a boot manager on that partition space which will be the ony way to get to your new Windows 7 installation.

In other words, If I have XP on disk D and Vista on disk E....I have to upgrade from within Vista on Disk E (if it's Vista I want to upgrade). If I do it within XP but tell the installer to wipe and install over disk E, it will work but Disk E will have no boot partition to start up on. In this scenario, I'd have to select my XP partition at start up and then choose to boot to windows 7 from the Boot Manager windows would have put on Disk D.

I hope this makes sense.....You didn't think Microsoft was going to be giving away cheap upgrades to windows that easily did you?:D
 
bozz2006 said:
Hello all,
I decided to take advantage of the $30 Windows 7 student offer. I am now wondering whether I threw my money away. I downloaded it, which I had to do in parallels, and now that I have it I am thinking that the only thing it will do is upgrade a pre-exisitng version of Windows. Can this even be done with only a parallels XP installed? I appreciate any help.
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Pre-existing, and activated version of Windows (so Windows 2000 is no longer a qualified OS... :( )

I doubt you could install Windows 7 on top of itself... with Vista, at least you could bypass entering the product key then reinstall over the top of itself and say it qualifies...

On the plus side, it's only $30. Not $219 or whatever obscene amount MS wants...

Just like when they kept revamping their Win32s API to make it impossible to run under OS/2... new Windows versions are revamped to make life difficult for everybody else, only this time "everybody else" means "everybody". :(
 
akadmon said:
You're kidding, right?

I've been on the phone talking to a guy in India for the past 3 hours. Another 27 and MSFT will be losing money on this thing (the poor guy is probably getting paid a buck an hour).
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Is his work worth a buck an hour? 3 hours? In India, is $1/hr considered a good wage? (it isn't in America, that's for sure, and most news articles agree: India's economy continues to skyrocket with its middle class flourishing while ours continues to go down and down and down. Therefore, $1/hr can't be that bad. At least for their cost of living.)

Remember, this is Microsoft - they have the public do all the beta-testing for free -- and I don't mean once the "finished" operating system is put on the retail market. I was a beta-tester of win7, for about a week, and stopped bothering because my time is valuable, I have enough technologies (and collegiate coursework) to do, doing intricate research is one of my strengths, and I deserve good pay for doing good work. Why should I do their work for free? I am not a commodity. I am not an object. I am not a slave.

And judging by the trainwreck vista was, a lot of betatesters felt the same way when they did the beta game -- but didn't give microsoft any feedback. Rightly so.

Microsoft is a company of slimy leeches. They call it "delegating" or even the new buzzword, "crowdsourcing". Most would call it "leeching", however.
 
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