Followed the instructions, made the ISO, burned it, and still was unable to upgrade a Win Vista machine due to the error. I had to do a clean install to get the ISO to work. Why am I getting this files are not accessible error when I try upgrading?
SIW2, many thanks for your very clear post on how to get this wee problem sorted. I followed the instructions as per your post Make bootable iso from student d/l
Everything worked as you said. I went the "You may wish to copy the expandedsetup folder directly onto the root of C:" route and this saved a little bit of typing.
Once the .iso file was generated, I followed he instructions on USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create as the laptop I'm working on does not have a DVD burner.
Cheers, and have a brill weekend,
kesey
I need some help. I can across the same situation as everyone else but before I went through all these steps, a friend of mine suggested just using his Win 7 64bit Ultimate dvd, and just put my code in when it asks for it. Seemed like a plausible idea so I went along. Turns out the CD key and SKU for each retail copy are connected.
So I now currently have a fresh install of Win 7 on my harddrive, but no way to do anything with it as I have no working password.
My question is, can I redownload on another computer, and burn those files (the expandedfolder files, the 3.01gigs) as an ISO onto a disk and again make it boot from my custom made ISO disk? I will be skipping step 2, as I no longer have access to any system/32 folders, and I am not sure if that is required for this to work. Any insight will be appreciated.
Hi Trends,
1. You could d/l the student install files and make the iso like everyone else.
OR
You can copy the contents of your friends dvd to your desktop - remove the ei.cfg file from the "sources" folder.
The use exactly the same steps to create the iso from those files- rather than the student d/l files.
You will the have an iso which can be used to install ANY Edition of 7.
Awesome! I will just re-download and make the ISO like everyone else. I don't have access to my desktop as it needs me to enter a CD key to get through that. I was just not sure if my ISO/install would work if I didn't add the ocesm into my system files before I tried this.
You have to use oscdimg.exe.
You can put it just about anywhere - you just need to be in that directory to run it.
That means , in the command prompt, the bit before the> should be the place you put oscdimg.
For example , if you put oscdimg directly on C drive - not in any folder at all, the cmd window needs to start at C:\>
To change directory, open elevated command, type:
cd /d the directory you want.
Not sure what you mean by don't have acces to your desktop - how are you making these posts now?
You can do it all on another machine if you like - when you have made the .iso and burned it - you boot that dvd on your original machine and install.
I'm posting from my work machine. I am locked out of my machine as I installed windows 7 using a friends CD, but my key does not work on it (dumb, I know) and cannot get passed the screen in which it asks for a key.
Ok, I understand now. I was not sure what oscdimg.exe did, and thought for it to work, it needed to be in the system files of the machine that is being updated. I will use it on my other machine and post later tonight if everything worked.
Again, SIW2, we all thank you for your support and patience.
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