WHAT A LOAD OF BALLS.

[Luke]

Well, i got windows 7 through the student offer, and I downloaded it, etc, come to run it (or extrract it as its doing) and it comes up with this error:


I phoned them,technical team said (dunno, you're gonna have to buy a disc), and Im like, I don't want to - they forward me anyways, ssay they're forwarding me to sales team, oh, and both times (i tried twice) they forward me to Microsoft Product Axctivation.

Thanks a ******* lot.
Can I have my money back please? :|

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[Sam]

Uhh excuse me if i'm missing something, but doesnt that just mean you cant extract it where you're trying? Or you've downloaded it to a place where you don't have permissions? Cant you just redownload it somewhere else and extract somewhere else?

Or if not, just download it from a warez site? You have a serial anyway and you've paid for it. So all you're doing is downloading the files.

[Luke]

Uhh excuse me if i'm missing something, but doesnt that just mean you cant extract it where you're trying? Or you've downloaded it to a place where you don't have permissions? Cant you just redownload it somewhere else and extract somewhere else?

Or if not, just download it from a warez site? You have a serial anyway and you've paid for it. So all you're doing is downloading the files.

Its on desktop - so no problems there
And the only ones I can find on warez sites, are "Ultimate Cracked" therea rn't any proper rips of the disc.

I just phoned thema gain, and the sales team want me to pay £40 for a disc!!

[nm-nm]

Its on desktop - so no problems there
And the only ones I can find on warez sites, are "Ultimate Cracked" therea rn't any proper rips of the disc.

I just phoned thema gain, and the sales team want me to pay £40 for a disc!!

£40?! Seriously?! When I ordered mine via the student offer website, I paid £30 for Windows 7 and only £9 for a disc?

I'm waiting for the disc to arrive to install it, as I can't be bothered downloading.

But yeah, point that out to them

[Luke]

After loads of trial and error, I finally found help from someone not involved with Microsoft and I am now on Windows 7 Profesional 64bit =]

[Meree.]

You won't need to. Just uninstall it if it's installed, go to the site you downloaded it from and save it into a different folder, like desktop or whatever, and extract it from there.

[Johno]

This might be of some use to you (even though you are now running 7)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/w...king-for-many/

The Windows 7 launch seems to have gone off mostly roses and sunbeams, but we're hearing today that quite a few people have had issues installing the downloadable $29 student upgrade edition on 32-bit Vista -- apparently the file doesn't unpack to an ISO, but instead to an executable and two bundles that don't function properly, and eventually the process errors out with a 64-bit app trying to launch on 32-bit systems. It's possible to create an ISO using some hackery, but the install process seems to be 50/50 after that -- we've heard of both success and further crashes. For it's part, Microsoft says it's looking into things, so hopefully a newly repackaged download will be forthcoming -- every party has its ups and downs, right?