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hello all, i hope i am posting this in the right place, i just sent off for my student version of windows 7, i am waiting for my confirmation email, i think i read somewhere on this forum( which i cant seem to find again ) that if you called up the microsoft store, they will send you a bootable windows 7 pro disk for an extra $5, i an wondering if there is a link to that info
thanks in advance
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Hello and welcome to the windows7forums.
Yes, the student version is quite different from the ISO version.
They make you work a little harder
The student version isn't an ISO. It's just the files and if you simply write them to a disk they won't boot. There are couple fixes to make either a bootable USB with unetbootin... or make a bootable ISO with some other process that I couldn't get to to work. It's way easier just to go to my blogs and use the links to download the full ISO from Microsoft.
Credit to tblount for that explanation
Yes, the student version is quite different from the ISO version.
They make you work a little harder
The student version isn't an ISO. It's just the files and if you simply write them to a disk they won't boot. There are couple fixes to make either a bootable USB with unetbootin... or make a bootable ISO with some other process that I couldn't get to to work. It's way easier just to go to my blogs and use the links to download the full ISO from Microsoft.
Credit to tblount for that explanation
Short answer is NO or Maybe... but you can make it work
You probably got an upgrade key. to get the upgrade key to work on a full install (which boots) you have to use one of two tricks. Eitehr delete ei.cfg from the full version ISO ... or do the registry tweak that has been discussed over and over here. If you are only going to do an upgrade from the full ISO the key will work. A clean istall is way way way better.
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