I'm not sure WHY I thought this would be painless, but...
Downloaded Windows 7, 64-bit from the official site.
Burned it to a DVD using the less-than-a-year-old Samsung burner. Tried the install and got the familiar "missing install.wim" message.
Burned ANOTHER DVD using 2X just in case THAT was the problem.
Same thing on install.
Spent hours doing the download a second time...
Went through the same process again. Same result again.
Tried the process to create a USB drive, but THAT fails because it won't use bootsect.exe from XP 32 to create whatever's needed to install Windows 7 64........
Anyone have a solution that actually works for getting this installed? If not, is MS going to do something so the install will actually work from normal, fairly new hardware?
Bad question? Question that's been answered successfully already?
Downloaded Windows 7, 64-bit from the official site.
Burned it to a DVD using the less-than-a-year-old Samsung burner. Tried the install and got the familiar "missing install.wim" message.
Burned ANOTHER DVD using 2X just in case THAT was the problem.
Same thing on install.
Spent hours doing the download a second time...
Went through the same process again. Same result again.
Tried the process to create a USB drive, but THAT fails because it won't use bootsect.exe from XP 32 to create whatever's needed to install Windows 7 64........
Anyone have a solution that actually works for getting this installed? If not, is MS going to do something so the install will actually work from normal, fairly new hardware?
Bad question? Question that's been answered successfully already?
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