Make bootable iso from student d/l

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  1. Posts : 16,129
    7 X64
    Thread Starter
       #220

    Razeus said:
    This has got be the most ridiculous thing ever. I should have just bought the upgrade disc. Digital River should have at least told us that this would be an .exe and we would have to hack it to get it to work the way it should.

    Sorry to hear you are having trouble with your downloaded files. Are you able to download again?
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  2. Posts : 16
    Windows 7
       #221

    buckeyejoe said:
    Seems to be working. Installing with Windows.old files.
    i had bios set up to boot from disc first but i had to actively do it by mashing all my F# keys during startup.

    is the windows.old a necessary evil? i thought i had read something about how this could be avoided.
    windows.old is the old windows you had on the drive and Windows is keeping it for you if you want to recover it, or in case there are some files in it that you may need.

    After a while (maybe a few months) you can delete it, if you never have any use for it anymore.
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  3. Posts : 6
    Vista
       #222

    kk405 said:
    Razeus said:
    @ kk405

    Well I burned the ISO (got that far) but it's not bootable. It says it can't find the boot.wim file. I tried it within Vista and after a restart of the computer. I noticed that the ISO file and the disc that I burned with Nero is only 205MB though. Did I do something wrong?
    you definitely did something wrong. The image file that gets created, called '7.iso' is a single file that is 3.09GB in size.
    ok. Then I'm going to redownload again. Sigh....
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  4. Posts : 16,129
    7 X64
    Thread Starter
       #223

    kk405 said:
    chrisdordon said:
    figured it out!!!!


    ran command prompt as administrator
    these are the type of differences between individual's PCs that crate many of these errors...

    for exmpale I did NOT need to run the command prompt as an administrator, but apparently some have to.
    It is in the original tutorial.
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  5. Posts : 20
    vista
       #224

    SIW2 said:
    michael31986 said:
    its not working for me it says oscdimg.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
    Move/copy oscdimg.exe into the C:\windows\Sytem32 folder

    as in the original tutorial.

    that folder has so many files in there though. im not sure i understand why i would put these files in there if i want to burn a boot dvd so that i can format my computer and then install a clean version of windows 7
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  6. Posts : 16
    Windows 7
       #225

    Razeus said:
    This has got be the most ridiculous thing ever. I should have just bought the upgrade disc. Digital River should have at least told us that this would be an .exe and we would have to hack it to get it to work the way it should.
    +1...I would blame MSFT for this for the way they are delivering this to Digital River. MSFT should ahve sent them the exact image, and or packaged it in a way that it would be self-extracting and easily copied on a DVD...

    for gods sake, this is 2009 and they still don't get this right...now, if Apple was doing this...
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  7. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Profession x64
       #226

    andumas said:
    Well I take the folder off read only, then go to create the disc image. This error message keeps showing up:

    ERROR: Unable to create file "C:\7.iso" of 3242131456 bytes
    Error 5: Access is denied.

    And when I go back to the properties of the folder, Read-only is still checked. Every time after I uncheck it and hit apply, after the dialog box closes it automatically makes the folder read only again.

    I am having the same issue. and removing the read only attributes through the command prompt is rejected to. I can't make the iso. I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit.
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  8. Posts : 16,129
    7 X64
    Thread Starter
       #227

    Just that one file oscdimg.exe.

    rt click on it and copy it, then rt click on the yellow folder System32 and paste.

    Open an elevated command and by deafult it opens at C:\Windows \System32 which, by happy coincidence, is where you have just put the oscdimg.exe program you are about to run.
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  9. Posts : 16,129
    7 X64
    Thread Starter
       #228

    rambo said:
    andumas said:
    Well I take the folder off read only, then go to create the disc image. This error message keeps showing up:

    ERROR: Unable to create file "C:\7.iso" of 3242131456 bytes
    Error 5: Access is denied.

    And when I go back to the properties of the folder, Read-only is still checked. Every time after I uncheck it and hit apply, after the dialog box closes it automatically makes the folder read only again.

    I am having the same issue. and removing the read only attributes through the command prompt is rejected to. I can't make the iso. I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit.
    Create the .iso somewhere other than the root of the C drive.

    If you have a D: drive, use D:\7.iso instead.

    Otherwise, put it on e.g. the desktop, use

    C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\7.iso
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  10. Posts : 5
    vista 32
       #229

    kk405 said:
    buckeyejoe said:
    Seems to be working. Installing with Windows.old files.
    i had bios set up to boot from disc first but i had to actively do it by mashing all my F# keys during startup.

    is the windows.old a necessary evil? i thought i had read something about how this could be avoided.
    windows.old is the old windows you had on the drive and Windows is keeping it for you if you want to recover it, or in case there are some files in it that you may need.

    After a while (maybe a few months) you can delete it, if you never have any use for it anymore.
    Thanks, i find this odd tho as im going from 32 to 64 so i thuoght it would be a clean wipe.
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