For those who purchased Windows 7 from Digital River

I was able to download and install the 32bit Home Premium edition of 7 with ease two days ago. $30 for the upgrade was so worth it!

I'm still waiting for them to refund my money and reset my eligibility so I can download the professional edition. I just received an email today that said it can take up to 10 business days. I'm not in a hurry since I'm still running Ultimate (RC) for now so I'll just wait to see what happens.

tmagic650 said:

I installed the $30 Windows 7 Professional from Digital River using the 3-file method download, and everything went smooth yesterday. Although I had to run a "clean" install over the Windows 7 Ultimate RC, Windows did save all my "old" RC files in a Windows.old folder on my C drive... Sweet!

I finally learned how to create and burn a Windows 7 DVD from the Digital River files:

Place the 3 digital river files on the desktop on on the C drive
Download and place the extracted oscdimg utility in the System32 folder
Open the Administrator Command Prompt (in Vista) by going to Programs, Command Prompt, right-click and select run as Administrator. Copy

oscdimg -u2 -b"C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com" -h "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\expandedSetup" C:\Win7.iso

where "user" is your computers or youruser name is put, and paste the into the Command Prompt window. Hit enter...

The Win7.iso file will be placed in C. I used DVD Decrypter to burn the iso file to a DVD

Found this method on another site and it worked great.

toglenn said:

I ordered and downloaded the 64 bit Home Premium Edition from Digital River and could not install it in my computer.

Digital River confirmed I could not upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit program with their offerings so I cancelled the order and ordered a full version of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit from Microsoft for the same price and no need to download as it is the retail version.

Toglenn

They lied. I upgraded Windows 7 RC1 32bit to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit with no problems.

muzicman61 said:

toglenn said:

I ordered and downloaded the 64 bit Home Premium Edition from Digital River and could not install it in my computer.

Digital River confirmed I could not upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit program with their offerings so I cancelled the order and ordered a full version of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit from Microsoft for the same price and no need to download as it is the retail version.

Toglenn

They lied. I upgraded Windows 7 RC1 32bit to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit with no problems.

They didn't lie, they just bent the truth because they are lazy and irresponsible, as the DigitalRiver package hangs up when upgrading to 64 bit, so technically it DOESN'T upgrade, except with a workaround. The workaround is to create the ISO and install from a DVD as posted above. The simple solution would have just been for them to provide the same Windows ISOs that everybody else gets.

Are those of you who want the .iso file doing so for backup purposes? Or is it because you had trouble installing the OS when downloaded from Digital River?