Make bootable iso from student d/l

Hollow Man said:

carito said:

Hi,

I have tried to do as explained on this post but I cant even get the expandedsetup from the digital river student download I got. I have the setup1.box and setup2.box but the other bit is called win7-p-retail-en-us-x86. I wanted to do a clean install from windows vista home premium.

Since cant get the expandedsetup folder, I cant do any of the other steps. I have downloaded the win 7 download from digital river about 5 times and still having some problem. I am so frustrated by all this!! Can any help/have any ideas???

thank you so much!

Yours is the 32-bit version so you should have no problem extracting the files. Simply double-click on win7-p-retail-en-us-x86.

-HM

Thats what I thought but as soon as I try to open it by either double clicking on it, right click and open or right click and open as administrator I get the error box "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 that you have security permission on the folder to write files and that the folder is not read-only" with an OK at the end. I click on OK and thats it, no set expandedsetup anywhere

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Darryl Licht said:

caz32 said:

Don't suppose anyone knows of a program that allows me to unlock the extra 100gb or so on my HDD? its 250gb and only showing as 130, i used a program in XP called Partition Magic but it isn't working with Win7.

Try GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) its linux based open sourse software and its FREE! If you have used Partition Magic, it wont be tough to figure out. Also, you download it as an iso and then burn yourself a bootable linux cd from that!

Here's the link: GParted -- Welcome

Hope that helps you out!

Worked a treat, thanks

I stuggled with trying to make my ISO file from the download from Digital River. My problems came when I tried to run the cmd ---->


Oscdimg.exe –u2 –b"C:\Users\username\Desktop\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com" –h "C:\Users\username\Desktop\expandedSetup" C:\7.iso

I was copying and pasting code. When I decided to type it in by hand it worked! Why copying and pasting didn't work I don't know.

I had one other problem. The last part of the code C:\7.iso would not work, Vista would not let me write the file to my C:\ drive. I changed the last part of the code to C:\Users\username\Desktop\7.iso and it wrote the ISO file to my desktop.

I was them able to burn the ISO image to a DVD.

Hope this helps someone out there.

VERY frustrated with the download from Digital River. I have Vista 32 bit and wanted to upgrade to Win7 64bit. They fail to mention that this is not possible with this download. They also have not replied to my emails asking for help.

Anyway I am going to try my upgrade with my new ISO image that I have just finished burning! Wish me luck!

carito said:

Hollow Man said:

carito said:

Hi,

I have tried to do as explained on this post but I cant even get the expandedsetup from the digital river student download I got. I have the setup1.box and setup2.box but the other bit is called win7-p-retail-en-us-x86. I wanted to do a clean install from windows vista home premium.

Since cant get the expandedsetup folder, I cant do any of the other steps. I have downloaded the win 7 download from digital river about 5 times and still having some problem. I am so frustrated by all this!! Can any help/have any ideas???

thank you so much!

Yours is the 32-bit version so you should have no problem extracting the files. Simply double-click on win7-p-retail-en-us-x86.

-HM

Thats what I thought but as soon as I try to open it by either double clicking on it, right click and open or right click and open as administrator I get the error box "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 that you have security permission on the folder to write files and that the folder is not read-only" with an OK at the end. I click on OK and thats it, no set expandedsetup anywhere

I'm having this exact problem too!

I'm on XP and I downloaded the 32 bit version of Windows 7. I downloaded the file and ended up with the 3 files - setup1.box, setup2.box and Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x86.exe. When I double clicked on Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x86.exe I got the same error as above straight away - it didn't even start unpacking. Very frustrating!

I did move them from their original download location (the desktop) to an external drive, so whether that stuffed up something I don't know...

I'm downloading it again now. This time I'm saving it direct to my external drive.

Hopefully this time it'll work, but if it doesn't I guess I'll have to contact Digital River.

Hi idrive,

Thanks very much for posting back

We have had a couple others who had problems saving the .iso to the root of C.

We used exactly the same method as you did to get round that.

However, those posts are buried in this long thread - so it's good you posted it up again.

Anyone who has the 32 bit would be well advised to make a bootable .iso - otherwise they cannot reinstall if they can't get in to their pc

It is quite common.

Hi magw,

You might have a look at all 3 files you downloaded and check the attributes.

This useful - it adds to your right click menu:
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SIW2 said:

Hi magw,

You might have a look at all 3 files you downloaded and check the attributes.

This useful - it adds to your right click menu:
Petges.lu - News

Thanks for that. I'm at work now so I'll have to wait till tonight to try it out, but what attributes should I be looking at?

Last night I went into each file and unchecked 'Read Only' and 'Archive', but that didn't help.

Are there other attributes that Attribute Changer might highlight that you'd suggest altering?

Thanks!

SIW2 said:

Thanks for the update

wrobster said:

SIW2 said:

Thanks for bringing that up.

Try this:

oscdimg.exe -h -u1 -b"C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com" -o -m "C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\expandedSetup" C:\7.iso

Please post back the result.

I was able to make the bootable hybrid image like you suggested.
Burned it to DVD with isoburner, and installed successfully on my PC,
which does not have the BIOS problem of booting pure UDF images.
Will not be able to try it on my son's machine until next week,
but I will post results as soon as he is ready for the upgrade.

Today I tried the hybrid DVD but still got the code 5 error.
Perhaps I need a different bootloader - not etfsboot.com