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Schools Agreement upgrade disk
If this has been covered elsewhere I'd appreciate a link to that forum, here's my problem.
I work for a school they're running XP SP3 32bit. I ordered the Win 7 64 bit upgrade. Upon inserting the DVD i get the obvious error - "unsupported edition for upgrade...yada yada"
The disk doesn't boot either (tried on several different PC's, different hardware, dvd first boot device)
When I check the bootmgr file using notepad on the disk it reads in one section "BOOTMGR image is corrupt" - I think Microsoft have done that on purpose because it's a school licensed disk (volume license)?why else?
I booted into & installed my copy of Vista 64bit, left the key blank and then installed the Win7 upgrade on top of it. Registered ok over the phone - but now many files don't install or work. Office 2007, Thunderbird among others.
How do I get to install a fresh copy of Win7 64 bit - as the disk doesn't boot. The 32 bit version has the same problem.
Disk contents: - green disk with silver border says "not for OEM or retail distribution"
boot
efi
sources
support
upgrade
autorun.inf
bootmgr
bootmgr.efi
setup.exe
Not sure if this version will work if i try to make a bootable flash drive
...please help