For those who purchased Windows 7 from Digital River

[Jacee]

Microsoft has confirmed a problem that hundreds of users have reported with downloading Windows 7, according to its support forum.
The company is currently investigating the reports, but has not yet come up with a solution.
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 upgrade install snafu

 

[Static]

Is the 30dollar student version of Home/Pro an upgrade or a full version of Windows 7?

And for like 13dollars or something you can get them to mail you the discs. But once again, are they only upgrade or full version? I was under the impression that they were full version discs.

 

[thefabe]

Microsoft has confirmed a problem that hundreds of users have reported with downloading Windows 7, according to its support forum.
The company is currently investigating the reports, but has not yet come up with a solution.
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 upgrade install snafu

Nice find Jaycee

 

[Killerinstinct]

Is the 30dollar student version of Home/Pro an upgrade or a full version of Windows 7?

And for like 13dollars or something you can get them to mail you the discs. But once again, are they only upgrade or full version? I was under the impression that they were full version discs.

i actually called them and got the full version for 30 dollars professional... but i learned this from some other forum... i forgot what it was ... so this isn't my find... its Someone else found this

 

[neely615]

Here is a petition for those interested in showing their disapproval of Digital River
Digital River Should Provide New Windows 7 Installer Petition

 

[hacku]

I downloaded the Home Premium Upgrade for the $29.99 price before I realized that you had the option between that and the Professional edition.

I called Digital River yesterday and they put in a trouble ticket with Microsoft to see if they will cancel the key for my Home Premium edition so that I'll be able to download the Professional edition.

We'll see what happens. Here's a screenshot for those of you that haven't see so you can see how easy it is to not notice you can also purchase the Professional edition. (I added the red arrow by the way)

 

[tmagic650]

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

 

[Jacee]

The Official ImgBurn Website is my first choice ... set it at a fairly slow level to burn the ISO to DVD.

 

[Mojos]

Well making an iso and burning a DVD worked for me. Though I agree it's abit of a hassle compared to simply downloading an iso file.

A couple of problems I had -
double click the .exe file which downloaded, to create the expanded setup folder ( don't right click and do the open as admin thing as this will give you the permissions error mentioned in the tutorial).
When you come to run the Oscdimg if tour like me you might find it just pops up a command line editor for a second then closes. If you go into start the accesories you can select the command line editor in there, that should stay open for you to add the lines of code needed to make the cd

 

[toglenn]

Digital River Order

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

 

[Lucretius]

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!

 

[hacku]

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.

 

[messjess]

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.

 

[muzicman61]

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.

 

[styken]

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.

 

[papaSmurph]

glad i saw this post, i was going to try mine tonight. BUT, can i not use the retail disk i have for another machine (amazon pre-order sale) and just apply the product key purchased through Digital River?

 

[papaSmurph]

i also found this helpful link about creating an iso out of the Digital River files:

How to make a DVD of that student-only Windows 7 you bought for $29.99

 

[Lucretius]

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?

 

[Tews]

I would do both... just cruise through some of the posts that have been made about the problems with Digital River... It may have been cheaper, but....

 

[papaSmurph]

i want the iso so i can burn to disk and do a clean install, and also have the back up disk of it.