Comments on: How to Make the Student Discounted Windows 7 Upgrade Bootable

By: btr2bepissdoffthenon

btr2bepissdoffthenon — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:30:28 +0000

nobody got ripped off, yes it is compcated to install but anybody , should be able to make an iso off the files that are provided , we paid 30.00 some dollars for a 200.00 program , you can pay the 200 if u wish to have it easy , im not saying it was awsome of them to give us the files like they did but cmon you get what you pay for

By: Pissed 2010

Pissed 2010 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:47:36 +0000

Basically we all got ripped off. And of course there is 2000 websites that have these “this is what you should do
' @#@$#@%#$^%”! How about we just go to our bank and dispute the damn charge and screw them right the fuck back! Picture my middle finger frozen and me giving them a sand paper rubber and an empty Vaseline jar.

By: crutsc

crutsc — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:57:05 +0000

Please Help, I cannot locate the following
6.Select your “expandedSetup” folder for the Vista setup files path.
The path in the example is no where to be found on my computer, I hate VISTA, If this machine had XP on it I would know exactly where to look. However, after C: there is no Documents and Settings ?????

By: Digital River Provides Students With a ISO File to Fix Windows & Upgrade Problems | Notebooks.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:02:17 +0000

[...] that the files provided by Digital River made it hard to do. Yes, you could turn your Digital River Windows 7 download into a bootable DVD, but it was an involved [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:27:07 +0000

I cant find my product hey that window 7 upgrade gave me. little help here please

By: Jason Maher

Jason Maher — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:56:50 +0000

I have tried to unpack and burn an .iso for 4 days now unsuccessfully. Somehow something I did has seemed to work so far. I burned the .iso and now I am currently installing Windows 7 Professional x64 using the custom install option. I will let you guys know if it works in the end.

Thanks for all of your help!

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:30:56 +0000

Looks like digitalriver is now offering a downloadable ISO file for copying to a DVD or flash drive. Although they do not make it easy, as you have to first contact customer service. I emailed them about 24hrs ago and have yet to receive a reply. Anyways here is the link with the information. Good luck.

http://drh.img.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/ContentTheme/pbPage.Upgrade

By: Douglas

Douglas — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:31:46 +0000

Okay here is the deal in case you guys were wondering..

Its been a hard couple of days, but now I have two copies of W7 Pro. One is from Digitalriver.com and the other I ordered by phone from 1877 My MS-Store. I downloaded both and they appear to be identical. The version from MS store is NOT an ISO like digitalriver.com and is offered as 3 files. Although the guy from MS Store had answered my question that the download was indeed an ISO, which was obviously an ignorant lie. How come the people at call centers have no clue about the products they are offering?

Let me rant:

I was on the phone with ms store for about 2 hours total dealing with issues and language barriers (not surprising since the guy who said, “Hello my name is Robert” was clearly just a labeled name to make you feel better. After 30 minutes of questions and trying to get the few lines of information (name, address, email, cc info, etc) I ordered the download version with the backup option. Now I would have just gotten the DVD copy for 29.99, but apparently they were sold out. But after being put on hold, “Robert” told me that both the DVD and backup copy were the same. Weird. Anyway, it turns out the confirmation email got filtered as spam so I didn’t find it at first. It also turns out that Robert got my address wrong by 1 letter, an ‘n’ instead of an ‘m”. This was even after confirming the whole order, letter by letter by letter. Apparently it has become very difficult to distinguish how to pronounce n and m.

So I had to call back and correct the error which took the rest of my afternoon to accomplish due to how MS Store handles there calls and unfortunately how each call center person follows scripted lines. I called back 2 hours after the order was placed. First MS Store couldn’t do anything to fix the error and I was given another number to call. After calling the new number, still they were unable to fix the error. Saying that my order was already processed and had shipping out (clearly a lie because UPS does not pick up on Sunday at 3pm EST!). Nor could he cancel the order or refund the order. I was told to call UPS to let them know of the error (which I refused to do). After being put on hold again and again to “look into this information closer” (I mean come on, can’t they think of something else to say to the fact that they are probably taking another call and just waiting for me to hang up!?!). This was all but too frustrating and a supervisor was put on the phone to work out the issue. She also could not do anything and so it holds that there is chance I will not get the backup media. In which case I will have to call again and god knows how long that will take…. There, so make sure all the info is correct before you hang up with “Robert” or “John”.

Douglas

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:47:47 +0000

Same here. I think something is amiss with the bootable flash drive instructions.

By: Brandon C

Brandon C — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:18:31 +0000

I have having the same issue as Tim W, I followed the steps here to make the bootable iso and when I try to boot from the drive I only get the little blinking dash mark.