Student Upgrade on New Virtual Machine - Activation

[Henjy]

I have Windows XP Pro on a Boot Camp partition of my Mac Book Pro. I have gone through the arduous process of creating an .iso file and have installed Win7 into a new virtual machine. It is a clean install since there was nothing else there. Now I cannot get past the activation screen, where I re-enter the Product Key, whether the activation check box is filled in or not, I get an error.

Any ideas about 1 - what is the source of the problem?
2 - how to deal with it?

Thanks.

 

[acegolfer]

I have Windows XP Pro on a Boot Camp partition of my Mac Book Pro. I have gone through the arduous process of creating an .iso file and have installed Win7 into a new virtual machine. It is a clean install since there was nothing else there. Now I cannot get past the activation screen, where I re-enter the Product Key, whether the activation check box is filled in or not, I get an error.

Any ideas about 1 - what is the source of the problem?
2 - how to deal with it?

Thanks.

Follow this

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp
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[Henjy]

Had to go all the way through registry modification, but it is installed. Another reminder about why I prefer the Mac. Thanks for your help.

 

[dgenx210]

Had to go all the way through registry modification, but it is installed. Another reminder about why I prefer the Mac. Thanks for your help.

All you have to do is follow instructions properly to accomplish something regardless of your OS