Tag: Bootable USB
Microsoft’s new tool makes loading Windows 7 on a netbook as easy as USB
Loading the Windows operating system on any kind of computer has always involved floppy disks, CDs or DVDs. That’s kind of a problem if you want to load Windows on a netbook. Unless you buy an external CD/DVD-ROM, which isn’t cheap for one-time use, you are out of luck trying to install Windows on your [...]
Digital River Provides Students With a ISO File to Fix Windows & Upgrade Problems
Digital River, the company handling (or mishandling) the Windows 7 student upgrade offer for Microsoft has finally issued a fix to the numerous problems users had with the Windows 7 upgrade files that were given to them. One problem that users faced was the inability to do a clean install or upgrade from Windows XP [...]
How To Fix the Can’t Unpack Windows 7 Student Upgrade Error
Yesterday we showed you how to turn the files you downloaded from Windows 7 Student discount upgrade bootable on a flash drive or DVD to help users get past several upgrade errors but there are still issues plaguing many students.
The biggest issue is affecting users who want to upgrade form a 32-bit version of Windows Vista to a 64-bit version of Windows 7. In many cases these users can’t even unpack the setup files to make a bootable disc.
How to Make the Student Discounted Windows 7 Upgrade Bootable
If you took advantage of the $30 student discount on Windows 7 upgrades through Digital River you may have run into a roadblock when you tried to install the upgrade; especially if you wanted to do a clean install of Windows 7. To do a clean install you need to boot from a disc or [...]
